Cyclopts: HTCondor-Aware Stochastic Analysis Framework¶
Cyclopts is an HTCondor-aware platform designed to enable large-scale parameter space exploration of computational problems. It’s primary use is to analyze supported optimization problems found in the Cyclus nuclear fuel cycle simulator. Because Cyclus only defines a C++ API, Cython wrappings are automatically generated via XDress.
Warning
Cyclopts is currently under heavy development and purely experimental! With great Condor power comes great Condor responsibility!
Overview¶
Cyclopts is a framework that is designed to test and analyze computational problems, with optimization problems being a primary use case. Cyclopts provides
- a canonical way to describe the possible parameter space that define such problems
- a canonical representation of problem instances
- the ability to execute problem instances that meet given conditions with a variety of solvers
- the ability to perform these executions using the High Throughput Computing (HTC) platform HTCondor
- a utility to view and compare results
