Frequently Asked Questions¶
Upgrading GEMSEO¶
As GEMSEO code evolves, some calling signatures and behavior may change. These changes may break the codes that use GEMSEO and require modifications of them. See Upgrading GEMSEO for more information.
Create a simple DOE on a single discipline¶
Use the DisciplinaryOpt formulation
and a DOEScenario scenario.
Even for simple DOEs,
GEMSEO formulates an optimization problem,
so requires a MDO formulation.
The DisciplinaryOpt formulation
executes the MDODiscipline alone,
or the list of MDODiscipline
in the order passed by the user.
This means that you must specify an objective function.
The DOE won’t try to minimize it
but it will be set as an objective in the visualizations.
See also
For more details, we invite you to read our tutorial Tutorial: How to carry out a trade-off study.
Create a simple optimization on a single discipline¶
Use the DisciplinaryOpt formulation
and a MDOScenario.
The DisciplinaryOpt formulation
executes the MDODiscipline alone,
or the list of MDODiscipline
in the order passed by the user.
Available options for algorithms¶
See the available DOEs, linear solvers, MDO formulations, MDAs, optimizers, post-processings and machine learners (accessible from the main page of the documentation).
Coupling a simulation software to GEMSEO¶
See Interfacing simulation software.
See also
We invite you to discover all the steps in this tutorial Tutorial: How to solve an MDO problem.
Extend GEMSEO features¶
What are JSON schemas?¶
JSON schemas describe the format (i.e. structure) of JSON files, in a similar way as XML schemas define the format of XML files. JSON schemas come along with validators, that check that a JSON data structure is valid against a JSON schema, this is used in GEMSEO’ Grammars.
See also
We invite you to read our documentation: Input and output description: grammars.
See also
All details about the JSON schema specification can be found here: Understanding JSON schemas.
Store persistent data produced by disciplines¶
Use HDF5 caches to persist the discipline output on the disk.
See also
We invite you to read our documentation: Caching and recording discipline data.
Error when using a HDF5 cache¶
In GEMSEO 3.2.0,
the storage of the data hashes in the HDF5 cache has been fixed
and the previous cache files are no longer valid.
If you get an error like
The file cache.h5 cannot be used because it has no file format version:
see HDF5Cache.update_file_format for converting it.,
please use HDF5Cache.update_file_format()
to update the format of the file and fix the data hashes.
GEMSEO fails with openturns¶
Openturns implicitly requires the library libnsl that may not be installed by default on recent linux OSes. Under CentOS for instance, install it with:
sudo yum install libnsl
Some GEMSEO tests fail under Windows without any reason¶
The user may face some issues with the last version of Windows 10, build 2004, while running the tests. The errors are located deep in either numpy or scipy, while performing some low-level linear algebra operations. The root cause of this issue is well known and comes from an incompatibility with Windows 10, build 2004 and some versions of OpenBlas. GEMSEO users shall not encounter any issue in production. Otherwise, please contact us in order to get some mitigation instructions.
Parallel execution limitations on Windows¶
When running parallel execution tasks on Windows, the features MemoryFullCache
and HDF5Cache do not work properly. This is due to the way subprocesses are forked
in this architecture. The method DOEScenario.set_optimization_history_backup()
is recommended as an alternative.
The progress bar may show duplicated instances during the initialization of each subprocess, in some cases it may also print the conclusion of an iteration ahead of another one that was concluded first. This is a consequence of the pickling process and does not affect the computations of the scenario.
The execution of any script using parallel execution on Windows including, but not limited to, DOEScenario
with n_processes > 1, HDF5Cache, MemoryFullCache, ParallelExecution,
DiscParallelExecution, must be protected by an if __name__ == '__main__': statement.