[petsc-dev] AD support in PETSc?

[Patrick Sanan]

I asked Barry about this wrt the manual a while ago, and we removed all
reference to ADIFOR there, since it was no longer supported.
Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini at gmail.com> schrieb am So. 10. Sep. 2017 um
13:15:

> Should the references to ADIFOR listed below be removed? It seems PETSc
> does no longer provide support for automatic differentiation. I never used
> AD support in PETSc, but I was considering adding some reverse mode support
> to compute the transpose of the Jacobian matrices in adjoint computations.
> May ask why was it removed?
>
>
> [szampini at localhost petsc]$ git grep -i adifor
> bin/adiforfix.py:# $Id: adiforfix.py,v 1.3 2001/08/24 16:32:18 bsmith Exp $
> bin/adiforfix.py:#      | adiforfix.py
> include/petsc/private/matimpl.h:  PetscErrorCode
> (*setvaluesadifor)(Mat,PetscInt,void*);
> include/petscmat.h:               MATOP_SET_VALUES_ADIFOR=74,
> lib/petsc/conf/test:testexamples_ADIFOR: ${TESTEXAMPLES_ADIFOR}
> lib/petsc/conf/test:    -@ if test ${PRINT_PROGRESS}foo = debugtestfoo -a
> -n "${TESTEXAMPLES_ADIFOR}"; then printf "Running examples in `pwd`:\n
> ${TESTEXAMPLES_ADIFOR}\n"; fi
> lib/petsc/conf/test:buildexamples_ADIFOR:
> lib/petsc/conf/test:    -@${OMAKE} testexamples_ADIFOR
> TESTEXAMPLES_ADIFOR=`echo ${TESTEXAMPLES_ADIFOR} | sed
> s/runex[0-9]*[a-z0-9_]*//g`
> src/docs/tao_tex/manual/mathprog.bib:@TechReport{bischof.carle.ea:adifor,
> src/docs/tao_tex/manual/mathprog.bib:  title =        "{ADIFOR} 2.0 User's
> Guide",
> src/docs/tex/petscapp.bib:  title = "Using {ADIFOR} and {ADIC} to Provide
> a {J}acobian for the {SNES} Component of {PETSc}",
> src/mat/f90-mod/petscmat.h:      PetscEnum MATOP_SET_VALUES_ADIFOR
> src/mat/f90-mod/petscmat.h:      parameter(MATOP_SET_VALUES_ADIFOR=74)
> src/snes/examples/tutorials/makefile:   -@${MPIEXEC} -n 2 ./ex5f
> -adifor_jacobian -snes_monitor_short -ksp_gmres_cgs_refinement_type
> refine_always > ex5f_4.tmp 2>&1;\
> src/snes/examples/tutorials/makefile:   -@${MPIEXEC} -n 2 ./ex5f
> -adiformf_jacobian  -snes_monitor_short -ksp_gmres_cgs_refinement_type
> refine_always > ex5f_5.tmp 2>&1;\
> src/snes/examples/tutorials/makefile:TESTEXAMPLES_ADIFOR               =
> ex5f.PETSc runex5f_2 ex5f.rm
>
>
> --
> Stefano
>
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