Module 799-C in TOMS

General Information

REVOLVE: A "controller" for running a user computational differentiation program to compute the gradient of a scalar-valued function. Generates checkpointing schedules to reduce memory requirements for standard reverse differentiation. A Fortran 77 version is also available. (See A. Griewank and A. Walther, ACM TOMS 26 (2000) pp. 19-45 ).

Usage

REVOLVE (CHECK, CAPO, FINE, SNAPS, INFO)

Classification

H1	Numerical differentiation

Type

subroutine in TOMS package

Language

C

Availability

Some uses prohibited, Portable

Precision

Single Precision

Download from NETLIB; Public access repository

Location

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Bell Laboratories

Contact

Jack Dongarra, ORNL (dongarra@cs.utk.edu) and Eric Grosse, Bell Labs (ehg@research.att.com)