Introduction

adpy is a library useful for defining operations of a numerical simulation tool in the form of a computational graph. The graph can be executed on CPUs and GPUs and the adjoint graph can be derived using automatic differentiation provided by the library.

Installation

adpy requires the following packages

gcc
ccache
python: numpy, pytest

For Ubuntu, the following commands should be sufficient to install the above packages.

sudo apt install ccache gcc
sudo apt install python-pip
pip install numpy

Build and install adpy using the following commands

python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/path/you/want

Testing

To run unit tests for adpy

cd tests
./run_tests.sh
cd ..

Status

Examples

An example of how to use the adpy library can be found in the tmp.py file in the tests folder.

Contributors

Chaitanya Talnikar and Professor Qiqi Wang