mystic-0.2a1
Michael McKerns
mmckerns at caltech.edu
Sat May 22 10:13:56 CEST 2010
mystic: a simple model-independent inversion framework
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/software.html
# Version
0.2a1: 05/22/10
# Highlights
First alpha version for second minor release.
Extending optimizers to parallel and distributed computing.
Solvers:
- Differential Evolution (x2)
- Nelder-Mead Simplex
- Powell's Directional Search Method
- Pseudo-global Scattershot
- Pseudo-global Batch Grid
API:
- solvers share a common interface
- solvers can be called as a unique function or using API
- solvers with built-in optimization control handlers
- configurable solvers can be bound or unbound
- configurable solvers have user-provided or random initial points
- configurable termination conditions
- configurable mutation strategies (for DE solver)
- parallel mapping of optimization jobs
- distributed parallel mapping of optimization jobs
- parallel multiprocess mapping of optimization jobs
- launching with job schedulers
Tools:
- configurable 2-variable monitors
- wrap function with counter or bounds
- cost-function generator
- standard set of optimization test models
- set of example scripts for test cases
- math tools
Documentation:
- User's Guide with tutorials
- online Reference Manual
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Mike McKerns
California Institute of Technology
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns
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