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