Scientific Computing Seminar

Date and Place: Thursdays and hybrid (live in 32-349/online via Zoom). For detailed dates see below!

Content

In the Scientific Computing Seminar we host talks of guests and members of the SciComp team as well as students of mathematics, computer science and engineering. Everybody interested in the topics is welcome.

List of Talks

Event Information:

  • Thu
    02
    Nov
    2017

    SC Seminar: Max Sagebaum

    11:30SC Seminar Room 32-349

    Max Sagebaum, SciComp

    Title: Overview and introduction to MeDiPack

    Abstract:

    The correct Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) of message passing is by itself straight forward. Nevertheless, the handling of the different concepts in MPI like asynchronous request or collective communication and the combination with AD concepts like an index management scheme make the task quite involved. With MeDiPack (Message Differentiation Package) a novel approach is taken that uses code generation to reduce the duplication of implementations. This makes bugfixes or changes straight forward, since only one location needs to be changed and not every method where the MPI or AD concept is used.

    The presentation presents the main challenges for the handling of adjoint message passing and introduces the approach taken for MeDiPack.