Internal Downloads (Restricted Access)

Sandia-internal downloads include site-licensed software packages and are available here.

External Downloads - Open Source Release

DAKOTA is available for download under a GNU General Public License (GPL).
  • To initiate the download, first fill out the short Registration Form (Note: this information is only used to provide usage statistics to our program sponsors).
  • Source code tar file distributions are provided, as well as binary distributions for selected platforms.
  • Release notes are available for major, interim, and developmental (VOTD) releases.
  • Subscriptions to the dakota-announce and dakota-users email lists are available.
  • If you experience difficulties, please refer to the FAQ and to the archives of dakota-users. If neither resolves your problem, you may seek support from from the dakota-users forum or directly from dakota-developers.
    Please note this guidance for support requests.

Supported Platforms

DAKOTA runs on most Unix platforms and ports are actively maintained with nightly build verifications for PC Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, and DEC OSF. It also runs under Windows (via Cygwin) and Mac OSX, and has run under HP HPUX in the past, although these ports are not rigorously maintained at this time.