Switchback: Profile-Driven Recomputation for Reverse Mode

  • Authors:
  • Mike Fagan;Alan Carle

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science-Part II
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Many reverse mode codes created by Automatic Differentiation (AD) tools use too much storage. To help mitigate the storage requirement, AD users resort to a technique called recomputation. Acceptable performance, however, requires judicious use of the recomputation technique. This work describes our approach to constructing good recomputation for Adifor 3.0-generated reverse mode codes by using a standard execution time profiler.