Dr. Max Sagebaum

(TU Kaiserslautern)
hosted by Seminar Series on Scientific Computing

"Aggregated type handling in CoDiPack"

( MPI-SWS talk in Kooperation mit dem Fachbereich Informatik)

The development of AD tools focuses mostly on handling floating point types in the target language. Taping optimizations in these tools mostly focus on specific operations like matrix vector products. Aggregated types like std::complex are usually handled by specifying the AD type as a template argument. This approach provides exact results, but prevents the use of expression templates. If AD tools are extended and specialized such that aggregated types can be added to the expression framework, then this will result in reduced memory utilization and improve the timing for applications where aggregated types such as complex number or matrix vector operations are used. Such an integration requires a reformulation of the stored data per expression and a rework of the tape evaluation process. In this talk we demonstrate the overhead of unhandled aggregated types in expression templates and provide basic ingredients for a tape implementation that supports arbitrary aggregated types for which the user has implemented some type traits. Finally, we demonstrate the advantages of aggregated type handling on a synthetic benchmark case.

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Time: Thursday, 11.11.2021, 12:00
Place: https://jitsi.uni-kl.de/SciCompSeminar_02
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