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Recent Releases of FOQUS

FOQUS - 3.25 Release

3.25 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.25.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.25.0 Release Highlights:

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Published by boverhof 19 days ago

FOQUS - 3.25 Release Candidate #0

3.25 Release Candidate #0

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.25.0rc0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.25.0rc0 Release Highlights:

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Published by boverhof 19 days ago

FOQUS - 3.24 Release

3.24 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.24.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.24.0 Release Highlights:

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Published by boverhof 3 months ago

FOQUS - 3.24 Release Candidate #0

3.24 Release Candidate #0

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.24.0rc0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.24.0rc0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.23.0...3.24.0rc0

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Published by boverhof 4 months ago

FOQUS - 3.23 Release Candidate #0

3.23 Release Candidate #0

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.23.0rc0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.23.0rc0 Release Highlights:

  • Improvements to configuration when working with Aspen
  • Documentation improvements
  • Bug fixes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.22.0...3.23.0rc0

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Published by boverhof 6 months ago

FOQUS - 3.23 Release

3.23 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.23.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.23.0 Release Highlights:

  • Additional UI for setting Aspen ACM and AspenPlus timeouts
  • Documentation improvements
  • Default to 64 bit versions of TurbineLite and SimSinter

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Published by boverhof 6 months ago

FOQUS - 3.22 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.22.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.22.0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.21.0...3.22.0

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Published by boverhof 9 months ago

FOQUS - 3.22 Release Candidate #0

3.22 Release Candidate #0

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.22.0rc0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.22.0rc0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.21.0...3.22.0rc0

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Published by boverhof 10 months ago

FOQUS - 3.21 Release

3.21 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.21.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.20.0...3.21.0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 1 year ago

FOQUS - 3.21 Release Candidate #1

3.21 Release Candidate #1

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.21.0rc1-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.21.0rc1 Release Highlights:

  • Parallelization support for SDoE computations using Dask (preliminary)
  • Python version support has been extended. FOQUS is now compatible with Python 3.8 through 3.12
  • Expanded platforms used for automated testing to include macOS ARM (Apple Silicon)

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.20.0...3.21.0rc1

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 1 year ago

FOQUS - 3.21 Release Candidate #0

3.21 Release Candidate #0

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.21.0rc0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.21.0rc0 Release Highlights:

  • Parallelization support for SDoE computations using Dask (preliminary)
  • Python version support has been extended. FOQUS is now compatible with Python 3.8 through 3.12
  • Expanded platforms used for automated testing to include macOS ARM (Apple Silicon)

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.20.0...3.21.0rc0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 1 year ago

FOQUS - 3.20 Release

3.20 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.20.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.20.0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.19.0...3.20.0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 1 year ago

FOQUS - 3.20 Release Candidate #1

3.20 Release Candidate #1

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.20.0rc1-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.19.0...3.20.0rc1

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 1 year ago

FOQUS - 3.20 Release Candidate #0

3.20 Release Candidate #0

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.20.0rc0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.20.0rc0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.19.0...3.20.0rc0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 1 year ago

FOQUS - 3.19 Release

3.19 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.19.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.18.0...3.19.0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 1 year ago

FOQUS - 3.19 Release Candidate #0

3.19 Release Candidate #0

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.19.0rc0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.19.0rc0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.18.0...3.19.0rc0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 1 year ago

FOQUS - 2023 Jun Release

2023 Jun Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.18.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.17.1...3.18.0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl almost 2 years ago

FOQUS - 2023 Mar Patch Release

2023 Mar Patch Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.17.1-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.17.1 Release Highlights:

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.17.0...3.17.1

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl almost 2 years ago

FOQUS - 2023 Mar Release

2023 Mar Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.17.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.17.0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.16.0...3.17.0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 2 years ago

FOQUS - 2022 Dec Release

2022 Dec Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.16.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.16.0 Release Highlights:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.15.0...3.16.0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie over 2 years ago

FOQUS - 2022 Sep Release

2022 Sep Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.15.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.15 Release Highlights:

  • NUSF bug fix to improve design generation and be able to run it with or without a previous data file.
  • SDoE plotting fixes and enhancements.
  • Improved GUI, Core Node Functionality and Flowsheet control tests
  • FOQUS UI Local/Cloud Updates/Bug Fixes
  • Support For Additional ML AI File Types
  • Fixing matplotlib deprecation of fig.canvas.set_window_title
  • Update ML AI plugin example models to TensorFlow 2.10
  • Update TurbineClient to 4.0.2

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 2 years ago

FOQUS - 2022 June Release

2022 June Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.14.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.14.0 Release Highlights:

  • Switch PyQt5 requirement to 5.12 by @lbianchi-lbl in #1029
  • Improved Logging Output for node Failures: Bogus Steady State Error by @boverhof in #1028
  • Sphinx Documentation Build Issue by @bpaul4 in #1035
  • OUU: Change index in setting functions by @sotorrio1 in #1027
  • ML AI Plugin Data Normalization Options by @bpaul4 in #1034
  • Add support for Python 3.9 by @lbianchi-lbl in #1036
  • Implement direct design comparability by plotting the candidate set and previous data, if provided, alongside design points in SDOE design plots
  • Facilitate design comparison and decision making in NUSF designs by plotting the candidate set on a gradient scale with respect to weights

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS/compare/3.13.1...3.14.0

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie almost 3 years ago

FOQUS - 2022 Mar Patch Release

2022 Mar Patch Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.13.1-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.13.1 Release Highlights:

  • Incorporate changes for multi-platform compatibility of FOQUS dependencies (#1023)

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 3 years ago

FOQUS - 2022 Mar Release

2022 Mar Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.13.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.13.0 Release Highlights:

  • SDoE usability improvements (#993, #996)
  • Adding more capabilities to the Robust Optimality-based Design of Experiments (ODoE) (#905, #980)
  • Upgrade to psuade-lite 1.9
  • FOQUS Cloud OUU improvements (#1000, #1001)
  • New Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Plugin (#995)
  • Introduced GUI integration tests for OUU workflow (#1018)
  • Starting with this release, Python 3.6 is no longer supported. This is due to lack of support for Python 3.6 among several FOQUS dependencies (see #1022). The minimum supported Python version is now 3.7.

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl about 3 years ago

FOQUS - 2021 Dec Release

2021 Dec Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.12.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.12.0 Release Highlights:

  • SDoE GUI improvements (#977, #979)
  • Improvement and bug fixes for SDoE NUSF (#986, #992)
  • Various documentation and error reporting improvements (#970, #976, #880, #911, #956, #958, #963)
  • Testing and coding standards improvements (#984, #975)

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 3 years ago

FOQUS - 2021 Sep Release

2021 Sep Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.11.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.11.0 Release Highlights:

  • Turbine: compatibility issues have been fixed with the latest released version of SimSinter (2.1.0.1) and the Turbine Science Gateway (2.3.0.1)
  • Python compatibility: FOQUS is now fully compatible with Python 3.8
  • ODoE: Added documentation (#954)
  • SDoE: added documentation for IRSF (#953, #962)
  • SM: Added tutorial for SM UQ plugin (#951)
  • SDoE: added documentation for Data Imputation (#960)
  • Various bug fixes and enhancements (#941, #946, #938, #949, #956, #961, #963, #966, #968)

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 3 years ago

FOQUS - 2021 June Release

FOQUS 3.10.0 June 2021 Release

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Note: Download the below ccsi-foqus-3.10.0-examples.zip file for all the CCSI-FOQUS examples, tutorials and test files.

3.10.0 Release Highlights:

  • New MATLAB interface
  • New data imputation feature in SDoE
  • Updated Vector Variable support

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl almost 4 years ago

FOQUS - 2021 February Release

FOQUS 3.9.0 February 2021 Release

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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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie about 4 years ago

FOQUS - 2020 December Release

FOQUS 3.8.0 December 2020 Release

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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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie over 4 years ago

FOQUS - FOQUS 3.7.2 Sept 2020 release patch #2

FOQUS 3.7.2 Sept 2020 Release patch # 1

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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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie over 4 years ago

FOQUS - 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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 4 years ago

FOQUS - 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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by lbianchi-lbl over 4 years ago

FOQUS - 2020 June Release

FOQUS 3.6.0 June 2020 Release

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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.

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie almost 5 years ago

FOQUS - 2020 March release patch #1

FOQUS 3.5.1 March 2020 Release patch # 1

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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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie almost 5 years ago

FOQUS - 2020 March Release

FOQUS 3.5.0 March 2020 Release

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3.5.0 Release Highlights:

  • New pip installer
  • Documentation improvements
  • Various bugfixes
  • AWS FOQUS parallel computing improvements

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie about 5 years ago

FOQUS - 2019 December Release patch #1

FOQUS 3.4 December 2019 Release

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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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie about 5 years ago

FOQUS - 2019 September Release

FOQUS 3.3.0 September 2019 Release

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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

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie over 5 years ago

FOQUS - 2019 June Release

FOQUS June 2019 Release

Release highlights:

SDoE improvements, including:

  • Improved plotting capabilities where the user can plot historical data and design data in the same figure so they can assess their design
  • "Add New" button where the user can use an existing UQ capability to create their own samples using psuade
  • New wording and layout presentation in the SDoE user interface
  • Progress bar when creating designs

General improvements, including

  • Documentation on how to upload CSV file to automatically run a set of inputs
  • Updates to YouTube videos on installation and use
  • Various minor bug-fix/stability improvements.

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Published by ksbeattie almost 6 years ago

FOQUS - Initial export from svn

This is the initial export from svn r10521 in preparation for functionally equivalent open-source release.

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Published by vchendrix almost 6 years ago

FOQUS - 2019 May Release

FOQUS May 2019 release highlights:

After the transition from Python 2 to Python 3, we can confirm that the Python 3 version of FOQUS can:

  • Run the Flowsheet
  • Perform optimization
  • Perform UQ
  • Perform SDOE
  • Generate surrogate models, including ALAMO, ACOSSO, and BSS-ANOVA

Additional improvements:

  • Improvements to the tear stream convergence method
  • Remote Turbine can run in a local machine (e.g., a single computer with multiple processors)
  • Cloud backend was ported to NodeJS 8.10 (the 6.10 version lifetime expired on May 31)
  • Documentation updates
  • Fixed AppVeyor issues
  • Improvements in FOQUS Flowsheet table:
    • Delete Row now works
    • Fixed row to flowsheet problem
  • Auto button for edge editor working again
  • Progress on running parallel simulations using FOQUS and AWS
  • New videos on YouTube:
    • Installing FOQUS with python 3
    • New playlists for python 2 vs 3 and optional software installation

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie almost 6 years ago

FOQUS - 2019 Feb Release

Improvements in this release:

  • Transition from Python 2 to Python 3
  • New SDOE (Sequential Design of Experiments) GUI (Graphical User Interface)
  • Updates on documentation
  • Online documentation now hosted at ReadTheDocs
  • Turbine fixes
  • New filtering/sorting method for the Flowsheet Table
  • New method to generate samples using full factorial in Optimization
  • Progress on running FOQUS with Remote Turbine/AWS (Amazon Web Service)
  • Improvement to OUU (Optimization Under Uncertainty):
  • Automatic cleaning of temporary PSUADE files in FOQUS user directory
  • Bug fixes in UQ (Uncertainty Quantification):
  • We can now successfully upload CSV files containing samples to run in UQ

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Published by ksbeattie about 6 years ago

FOQUS - 2019 Feb Release candidate 1

Improvements in this release:

  • Transition from Python 2 to Python 3
  • New SDOE (Sequential Design of Experiments) GUI (Graphical User Interface)
  • Updates on documentation
  • Turbine fixes
  • New filtering/sorting method for the Flowsheet Table
  • New method to generate samples using full factorial in Optimization
  • Progress on running FOQUS with Remote Turbine/AWS (Amazon Web Service)
  • Improvement to OUU (Optimization Under Uncertainty):
  • Automatic cleaning of temporary PSUADE files in FOQUS user directory
  • Bug fixes in UQ (Uncertainty Quantification):
  • We can now successfully upload CSV files containing samples to run in UQ

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie about 6 years ago

FOQUS - 2018 Nov Release

  • Improvement to Turbine for Aspen simulations ending in warnings
  • Improvements to documentation including video installation guide.
  • Addition of SDOE routines into FOQUS, initial GUI coming in next release.
  • Improvements to OUU constraint handling
  • FIPS compliance
  • Various bug fixes, testing and documentation improvements
  • Improvement to the UQ tab for loading samples as a CSV file
  • Improvements to AWS Gateway integration and documentation

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Published by ksbeattie over 6 years ago

FOQUS - 2018 August Release

Incremental Release of FOQUS development:

  • Added Anaconda environment for running within
  • Support for newest pandas version
  • Added link in front README to PDF documentation
  • Testing improvements
  • Several small bug fixes

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Published by ksbeattie over 6 years ago

FOQUS - 2018 July Release

Incremental release of FOQUS development.

  • Making progress on integrating SDOE into FOQUS
  • Improved automated testing of FOQUS
  • Several bugs fixed
  • Improved documentation
  • Initial Integration of FOQUS UI with AWS FOQUS cloud

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Published by ksbeattie almost 7 years ago

FOQUS - 2018 June release

  • Bug fixes and updates to OUU tab to include multi-objective OUU (MOUU)
  • Enhancing filtering capability by allowing user to add new columns for calculated quantities
  • Adding filtering capability to UQ and SDOE
  • Updating the SDOE GUI to reflect a more intuitive workflow
  • Several bugs fixed for Turbine and plugins, as well as iREVEAL
  • Extensive testing, including automated GUI testing
  • Bug fixes to the UQ tab

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Published by ksbeattie almost 7 years ago

FOQUS - 2018 May Internal release

  • Renamed from lowercase "foqus" to uppercase "FOQUS" emphasizing that it is an acronym.
  • (Many other issues fixed and improvements made...)

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Published by ksbeattie almost 7 years ago

FOQUS - 2018 April internal release

  • Improvements in the OUU tab
  • The addition of a Calculated Column feature in the Flowsheet Results Table
  • Updates/corrections on the FOQUS User's Manual and tutorials
  • Fixed bugs in UQ visualization
  • Identified needs for improved communication between FOQUS and psuade for graceful error handling in UQ and OUU

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Published by ksbeattie almost 7 years ago

FOQUS - Initial Open Source release

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Published by ksbeattie about 7 years ago

FOQUS - Internal 2018 Feb release

Internal 2018 Feb release.

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Published by ksbeattie about 7 years ago

FOQUS - Alpha release candidate for first internal release

  • Improvement on the usability and robustness of the UQ tab.
  • Fixed bugs associated with transition from PyQt4 to PyQt5.
  • Removal of DMF, D-RM Builder, iReveal, and the splash screen from FOQUS.
  • The work on improving the usability and robustness of the OUU tab is ongoing.
  • In the current version of FOQUS, NLopt optimization solvers are not automatically installed with FOQUS, but can be manually installed if needed.

Emissions - Carbon Capture - Python
Published by ksbeattie about 7 years ago