Spying on the floating point behavior of existing, unmodified scientific applications
The Morning Paper
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
Spying on the floating point behavior of existing, unmodified scientific applications Dinda et al., HPDC’20. It’s common knowledge that the IEEE standard floating point number representations used in modern computers have their quirks, for example not being able to accurately represent numbers such as 1/3, or 0.1. The wikipedia page on floating point numbers describes a number of related accuracy problems including the difficulty of testing for equality.
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