AIB 2014-03: dco/c++ User Guide

[Thomas Ströder]

The following technical report is available from
http://aib.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:

dco/c++ User Guide
Uwe Naumann, Klaus Leppkes, and Johannes Lotz
AIB 2014-03

dco/c++ is a highly flexible and efficient implementation of first- and
higher-order tangent-linear and adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AD)
by operator overloading in C++. It combines a cache-optimized internal
representation based on C++ expression templates with an intuitive and
powerful application programmer interface (API). Support for externally
differentiated functions and for optimized data flow reversal through
checkpointing is provided. dco/c++ has been applied successfully to a
number of numerical simulations in the context of, for example,
large-scale parameter estimation and shape optimization.
Starting with an introduction to the fundamentals of AD this user guide
describes the various modes of dco/c++ in terms of their APIs and with
the help of very simple examples.
dco/c++ is actively developed resulting in a steady evolution of the
associated user guide.