User guide

Installation

• Dependencies
• Installation on a local computer
• Installation on Maxwell (DESY)
• Installation on JUWELS Booster (JSC)
• Installation on Perlmutter (NERSC)

Basic usage

• Exploration setup
  • Parameters to vary
  • Objectives and other analyzed parameters
  • Generator
  • Evaluator
  • Exploration
• Running simulations
  • Creating a simulation template
  • Defining an analysis function
  • Assigning computational resources
  • Including additional simulation files
  • Executing a non-Python simulation
  • Using a custom environment
  • Running a chain of simulations
• Exploration output
  • Log files
  • Simulation data
  • Surrogate model
  • Example output
• Analyzing results
  • Import and initialize diagnostics
  • Access exploration history
  • Built-in plotting utilities
  • User plots

Advanced usage

• Building GP surrogate models from optimization data
  • Set up example optimization
  • Initialize diagnostics
  • Building a GP model of each objective and analyzed parameter
  • Visualizing the surrogate models
  • Evaluating the surrogate model

Citation

• Citing optimas