Nature

Floating-Point Arithmetic and Numerical Computation Verification

Floating-point arithmetic is a cornerstone of modern computational science, providing an efficient means to approximate real numbers within a finite precision framework. Its ubiquity across scientific ...
insideHPC

With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of South Korea announced that a group of South Korean researchers has developed the country’s first floating point accelerator chip for ...
Nature

Floating-Point Arithmetic and Algorithms

Floating-point arithmetic is a cornerstone of numerical computation, enabling the approximate representation of real numbers in a format that balances range and precision. Its widespread applicability ...
VentureBeat

From MIPS to exaflops in mere decades: Compute power is exploding, and it will transform AI

At the recent Nvidia GTC conference, the company unveiled what it described as the first single-rack system of servers capable of one exaflop — one billion billion, or a quintillion, floating-point ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Data Formats For Inference On The Edge

AI/ML training traditionally has been performed using floating point data formats, primarily because that is what was available. But this usually isn’t a viable option for inference on the edge, where ...
Hackaday

Reverse-Engineering The Intel 8087 Stack Circuitry

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This ...