Releases: CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS
2021 February Release
FOQUS 3.9.0 February 2021 Release
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.9.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.
3.9.0 Release Highlights:
- Addition of the Robust Optimality-based Design of Experiments (ODoE) to the SDoE module
- PSUADE-Lite as conda package to facilitate optional software installation for users of UQ, OUU and SDoE
To install psuade-lite (after installing FOQUS):conda activate ccsi-foqus # Use the same conda env as FOQUS was installed in conda install --yes -c conda-forge -c CCSI-Toolset psuade-lite psuade --help # Quickly test that the psuade executable has been installed correctly - Various minor bug-fixes, documentation and examples improvements
2020 December Release
FOQUS 3.8.0 December 2020 Release
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.8.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.
3.8.0 Release Highlights:
- Addition of new SDoE capability: Input-Response Space Filling (IRSF)
- Improvements to SDoE UI and visualization capabilities
- Minor fixes to UQ and OUU modules regarding usability and visualization
- Replacement of foqusPsuadeClient BAT file with entry point
- SM Optimizer improvements
- working with GAMS solver
- Simplified multi start initialization at each iteration
- Time taken to implement each step according to the algorithm, in each iteration is displayed on the message window
- Restructured solver settings GUI - math optimization solver options can be specified by the user in a dictionary, within the GUI
- Code style changes to follow the pep 8 standards as much as possible
- FOQUS Cloud Notification UI now available in the Help Menu
- Current windows displays status of Autoscaling, EC2 virtual machines, and Queues
- To use must add a Notification section with url key to the turbine configuration file
- FOQUS Cloud status updates are broadcast to all clients via a web socket connection
- Web sockets are secured using wss protocol and utilizes Basic HTTP Authentication
FOQUS 3.7.2 Sept 2020 release patch #2
FOQUS 3.7.2 Sept 2020 Release patch # 1
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.7.2-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.
Additionally attached below are the Demonstration examples files Workshop_Demo_Examples.zip used during the Combined CCSI2–IDAES Stakeholder Workshop.
3.7.2 Patch Highlights:
- Dramatic improvement to NUSF running time in SDoE
3.7.1 Patch Highlights:
- Improvements to candidate and history file in SDoE
- Improvements in plotting a new design with historical runs included in SDoE
- Bugfix in surrogate modeling optimization
3.7.0 Release Highlights:
- SDoE usability improvements
- OUU plotting improvement; fixed bug causing segmentation fault in Mac OS
- UQ visualization improvement; 3-input vs 1-output Response Surface visualization wasn’t working due to bug in colormap
- Multistart option provided to the user in SM Optimizer for initializing the optimization problem at each iteration
- ipopt installation instruction added in the SM Optimizer documentation
FOQUS 3.7.1 Sept 2020 release patch #1
FOQUS 3.7.1 Sept 2020 Release patch # 1
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.7.1-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.
Additionally attached below are the Demonstration examples files Workshop_Demo_Examples.zip used during the Combined CCSI2–IDAES Stakeholder Workshop.
3.7.1 Patch Highlights:
- Improvements to candidate and history file in SDoE
- Improvements in plotting a new design with historical runs included in SDoE
- Bugfix in surrogate modeling optimization
3.7.0 Release Highlights:
- SDoE usability improvements
- OUU plotting improvement; fixed bug causing segmentation fault in Mac OS
- UQ visualization improvement; 3-input vs 1-output Response Surface visualization wasn’t working due to bug in colormap
- Multistart option provided to the user in SM Optimizer for initializing the optimization problem at each iteration
- ipopt installation instruction added in the SM Optimizer documentation
2020 Sept Release
FOQUS 3.7.0 Sept 2020 Release
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.7.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.
3.7.0 Release Highlights:
- SDoE usability improvements
- OUU plotting improvement; fixed bug causing segmentation fault in Mac OS
- UQ visualization improvement; 3-input vs 1-output Response Surface visualization wasn’t working due to bug in colormap
- Multistart option provided to the user in SM Optimizer for initializing the optimization problem at each iteration
- ipopt installation instruction added in the SM Optimizer documentation
2020 June Release
FOQUS 3.6.0 June 2020 Release
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.6.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.
3.6.0 Release Highlights:
- Improved the SDoE capability, plotting, UI, and documentation
- Added the of running IDAES models in FOQUS
- Ability to check feasibility of Pyomo models, including documentation update
- Surrogate model based optimizer, with detailed documentation and tutorial
- Confirmed the capability of FOQUS for performing parallel computing on Cloud/AWS through rigorous testing
- Improvements in the documentation:
- New YouTube videos for using SDoE in FOQUS (with more to come in the future)
- Improvements and additions to SDoE documentation
- Adding File Formats documentation to UQ documentation section
- New section and tutorial in the user’s manual: Instructions for running IDAES models in FOQUS
- Various minor bug fixes
- New Windows Desktop shortcut for easy start-up of FOQUS app.
2020 March release patch #1
FOQUS 3.5.1 March 2020 Release patch # 1
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
3.5.1 Patch Highlights:
- Switch to using mlrose-hiive over mlrose
3.5.0 Release Highlights:
- New pip installer
- Documentation improvements
- Various bugfixes
- AWS FOQUS parallel computing improvements
2020 March Release
FOQUS 3.5.0 March 2020 Release
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
3.5.0 Release Highlights:
- New pip installer
- Documentation improvements
- Various bugfixes
- AWS FOQUS parallel computing improvements
2019 December Release patch #1
FOQUS 3.4 December 2019 Release
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
3.4.1 Patch release
- Fix pandas version to 0.25.3
3.4.0 Release Highlights
- SDOE: The addition of the NUSF (non-uniform space filling) approach
- Running FOQUS on AWS: Additional testing and improvements
- Optimization: Improvements in the presentation of the results
- Documentation improvements
- Fixing the UQ Analyze tab for analysis post saving a session, and surrogate model validation
- Improvements in the Optimization Tab – Additional optimization plot for mapping the actual behavior of a solver
- Fixing the ALAMO stop button
- Fixing Unit Tests (Automated Testing)
- Fixing the use of original FOQUS variable format within the simple objective function expression (in the optimization tab) for OUU
2019 September Release
FOQUS 3.3.0 September 2019 Release
Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.
Release Highlights
- Documentation improvements and updates
- New FOQUS instructional videos on the CCSI2 Team YouTube channel, including how to use:
- Flowsheet
- Tear streams
- Optimization
- UQ
- OUU
- Surrogate models
- SimSinter for uploading an Excel, Aspen Plus and ACM model to FOQUS
- FOQUS cloud rewrite/refactor for nodeJS 8.10 in the FaaS ( AWS lambda )
- Modifications to “turbine” client ( Turbine Web API Client ) supporting large file upload/downloads directly to AWS S3 via SignedURLs.
- New sets of documentation and tutorial files for:
- SDOE (the robustness of this feature has been improved)
- Heat Integration (modifications for Python 3 version of FOQUS)
- Snobfit plugin (now available in Optimization)
- Pyomo (FOQUS can now run Pyomo for performing optimization)
- Fixed a bug in UQ that prevents the user from analyzing the ensemble data
- Improvements in the robustness of the tear stream solver in Flowsheet
- Improvements in OUU:
- OUU can now be done for a single node
- Using OUU no longer requires Windows users to modify the registry keys
- Removal of the "Basic Data" tab (not being used by developers or users)
- Reorganization of examples to better align with tutorials