[MITgcm-support] MIT with OpenAD

[Patrick Heimbach]

Oops, 
a little typo (Freudian?) in my previous email:
I meant to say:
"Jean may send you some specific pointers on how to connect OpenAD to *MITgcm*, if need be."

-Patrick

On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Patrick Heimbach wrote:

> 
> Abhisek,
> 
> MITgcm works with essentially two different choices of AD tools:
> 1. TAF (and to limited extent its predecessor TAMC)
> 2. OpenAD
> 
> Our default tool used is TAF, a commercial tool which grew
> out of the non-commercial predecessor TAMC.
> For you to be able to use TAF (via a script called "staf")
> you need to obtain a license from Fastopt which develops TAF.
> You should send a request to info at fastopt.de
> They may be able to give you a certain (hopefully significant)
> period of free trial license for you to explore the utility of the tool.
> 
> Regarding the alternative open-source, OpenAD, 
> I've sent some initial pointers in below email on how to
> obtain and implement the OpenAD tool locally.
> Jean may send you some specific pointers on how to connect
> OpenAD to TAF, if need be.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> On Jun 21, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Jean Utke wrote:
> 
>> Hi Abhisek,
>> 
>> I will get back to you with some info before  COB today.
>> 
>> jean
>> 
>> On 06/21/2012 11:50 AM, Abhisek Chakraborty wrote:
>>> Respected Dr. Patrick Heimbach,
>>> 
>>> Generation of AD code for OpenAD example depends on the adjoint_f95
>>> ("-adof=...adjoint_f95") which uses "tamc"&  "staf" executables
>>> (compilers). Now my query is whether TAMC/TAF are freely available? if
>>> so, please post the link to download these packages.
>>> 
>>> Thanking in advance,
>>> Abhisek
>>> 
>>> On 6/21/12, Patrick Heimbach<heimbach at mit.edu>  wrote:
>>>>> Andrey,
>>>>> 
>>>>> below website is a good starting point (it's not password-protected):
>>>>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/OpenAD/
>>>>> 
>>>>> It contains extensive instructions on how to download and install OpenAD,
>>>>> along with a suite of test examples.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Relevant MITgcm verification experiment is
>>>>> (if you've downloaded the MITgcm repository):
>>>>> verification/OpenAD/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please give that a try.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Patrick
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jean Utke
>> Argonne National Lab. / MCS (240-1156)
>> 9700 S Cass Ave., Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
>> phone +1 630 252 4552 / mobile  +1 630 363 5753
>> 
>> 
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