BibTeX
@ARTICLE{
         Utke2008OAM,
       author = "Jean Utke and Uwe Naumann and Mike Fagan and Nathan Tallent and Michelle Strout and
         Patrick Heimbach and Chris Hill and Carl Wunsch",
       title = "Open{AD/F}: A Modular, Open-Source Tool for Automatic Differentiation of {Fortran}
         Codes",
       journal = "{ACM} Transactions on Mathematical Software",
       volume = "34",
       number = "4",
       pages = "18:1--18:36",
       year = "2008",
       doi = "10.1145/1377596.1377598",
       ad_tools = "OpenAD",
       abstract = "The OpenAD/F tool allows the evaluation of derivatives of functions defined by a
         Fortran program. The derivative evaluation is performed by a Fortran code resulting from the
         analysis and transformation of the original program that defines the function of interest. OpenADF
         has been designed with a particular emphasis on modularity, flexibility, and the use of open source
         components. While the code transformation follows the basic principles of automatic differentiation,
         the tool implements new algorithmic approaches at various levels, for example, for basic block
         preaccumulation and call graph reversal. Unlike most other automatic differentiation tools, OpenAD/F
         uses components provided by the OpenAD framework, which supports a comparatively easy extension of
         the code transformations in a language-independent fashion. It uses code analysis results
         implemented in the OpenAnalysis component. The interface to the language-independent transformation
         engine is an XML-based format, specified through an XML schema. The implemented transformation
         algorithms allow efficient derivative computations using locally optimized cross-country sequences
         of vertex, edge, and face elimination steps. Specifically, for the generation of adjoint codes,
         OpenAD/F supports various code reversal schemes with hierarchical checkpointing at the subroutine
         level. As an example from geophysical fluid dynamics a nonlinear time-dependent scalable, yet
         simple, barotropic ocean model is considered. OpenAD/F's reverse mode is applied to compute
         sensitivities of some of the model's transport properties with respect to gridded fields such
         as bottom topography as independent (control) variables."
}