http://gpgpu.org General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware Tue, 22 May 2012 08:44:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gpgpu.org/2009/06/30/scientific-computing-numerical-precision http://gpgpu.org/2009/06/30/scientific-computing-numerical-precision#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:30:53 +0000 admin http://gpgpu.org/?p=1723 A ScientificComputing.com article by Rob Farber explores the topic of numerical precision in the context of future exascale computing, asking the question “how do we know that anything we compute is correct?”  The discussion centers around processors such as GPUs which provide both single- and double-precision computation but at different throughput levels. “Taking a multi-precision approach can enhance the accuracy of a calculation and justify the use of mainly single-precision arithmetic (for performance) along with the occasional use of double-precision (64-bit) arithmetic for precision-sensitive operations,” writes Farber. (Rob Farber. “Numerical Precision: How Much is Enough?” ScientificComputing.com.  Accessed July 1, 2008.)

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