Installation¶

Serial version¶

If you only want to use GAFT to run some simple mathmetical optimization without parallel acceleration, you can install GAFT without any prerequisite.

Via pip (Recommended)¶

pip install gaft

From source¶

git clone --recursive https://github.com/PytLab/gaft.git
cd gaft
python setup.py install

Parallel version¶

If you want to run your optimization flow in parallel for acceleration, you need to install an implementation of MPI on your machine and then mpi4py package.

MPI implementation for different platforms: 1. MPICH 2. OpenMPI 3. Microsoft MPI

You also install mpi4py explicitly:

pip install mpi4py

Then you can install GAFT in the same way with the serial version.

For developers¶

GAFT also provides unit tests for developers, if you have cloned the repository, just

python setup.py test

or

python -m gaft.tests.test_all