Efficient Programming with CasADi 3.1
Two Day Workshop at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Joris Gillis
KU Leuven
Monday, March 27, 2017, 9:00 - Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 16:30
Steinbeis-Haus Karlsruhe, Willy-Andreas-Allee 19, 76131 Karlsruhe
Aim of the workshop
The aim of this workshop for software developers is to familiarize the participants with strategies for efficient programming in the optimization environment CasADi. Lecturer and tutor of the interactive workshop is Joris Gillis, one of the main developers of CasADi.
Registration
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Course schedule
The current schedule for the two course days is given below. Please check this page for possible updates of the schedule (time slots for arrival, departure, lunches and breaks will not be altered).
| Start | End | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Arrival time |
| 09:00 | 09:15 | Welcome and organizational topics |
| 09:15 | 10:00 | CasADi basics: efficient symbolics, algorithmic differentiation, matrix-valued graphs, function embedding, code-generation/JIT |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Basic of algorithmic differentiation: composing a dense Jacobian, composing a sparse Jacobian |
| 10:30 | 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 | 11:50 | Memory and runtime: stages of an NLP solve, CasADi virtual machine, memory-lean graphs |
| 11:50 | 12:30 | Mapping and parallelization: Map, MapAccum, Massive parallelization with OpenCL |
| 12:30 | 13:15 | Lunch at Denkfabrik (http://www.denkfabrik-karlsruhe.de/) (self-payment!) |
| 13:15 | 14:00 | Visit at the solar thermal climate system of Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (incl. 2x10 minutes walk) |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Scaling Studies: checkpointing, looping over matrix elements, dense vs. sparse decision variables |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | 16:30 | Conclusion and time for further questions |
| 16:30 | 18:00 | Free time (Check-in at hotels, work, chatting, ...) |
| 18:00 | 18:30 | Walk to dinner location |
| 18:30 | 21:30 | Dinner at Lehner's Karlsruhe (http://karlsruhe.lehners-wirtshaus.de/) (self-payment!) |
| Start | End | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Arrival time |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Work on personal CasADi projects while Joris Gillis is available for questions |
| 10:30 | 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 | 12:30 | Work on personal CasADi projects while Joris Gillis is available for questions |
| 12:30 | 13:15 | Lunch at Denkfabrik (http://www.denkfabrik-karlsruhe.de/) (self-payment!) |
| 13:15 | 15:00 | Work on personal CasADi projects while Joris Gillis is available for questions |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | 16:30 | Conclusions and official end of workshop |
| 16:30 | 18:00 | Workshop room remains open for people to continue project work, wait for transportation, ... |
Contact and organizational framework
The workshop is organized by Adrian Bürger as part of the cooperation of Angelika Altmann-Dieses, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and Moritz Diehl, University of Freiburg.