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HP creates GPU server for high-performance needs

...for the SL6500 chassis. Photo credit: HP GPUs are adept at performing floating-point calculations, which makes them capable of improving graphics performance. They are... Read more

6 October, 2010 by Jack Clark
IEEE 754 double precision <endeca_term>floating-point</endeca_term> converter 1.1

IEEE 754 double precision floating-point converter 1.1

A great app to convert IEEE 754 double precision (64Bit) floating-point numbers from decimal system to their binary representation and back. The... Read more

19 March, 2011
A Vector-Like Reconfigurable <endeca_term>Floating-Point</endeca_term> Unit for the Logarithm

A Vector-Like Reconfigurable Floating-Point Unit for the Logarithm

The use of reconfigurable computing for accelerating floating-point intensive codes is becoming common due to the availability of DSPs... Read more

14 January, 2011
A Decimal <endeca_term>Floating-Point</endeca_term> Accurate Scalar Product Unit with a Parallel Fixed-Point Multiplier on a Virtex-5 FPGA

A Decimal Floating-Point Accurate Scalar Product Unit with a Parallel Fixed-Point Multiplier on a Virtex-5 FPGA

Decimal Floating Point operations are important for applications that cannot tolerate errors from conversions... Read more

20 November, 2010
A Non-Local Method for Robustness Analysis of <endeca_term>Floating Point</endeca_term> Programs

A Non-Local Method for Robustness Analysis of Floating Point Programs

...slightly. This notion is useful in the analysis of rounding error for floating point programs because it helps to establish bounds on output errors introduced... Read more

3 February, 2012
<endeca_term>Floating Point</endeca_term> Converter 1.01

Floating Point Converter 1.01

...is a simple and fast tool for viewing single-precision (32-bit) floating-point numbers stored in IEEE-754 format.You can enter a number... Read more

5 March, 2011
<endeca_term>Floating-Point</endeca_term> Data Compression at 75 Gb/s on a GPU

Floating-Point Data Compression at 75 Gb/s on a GPU

...Gb/s throughput of emerging network cards. The fastest parallel CPU-based floating-point data compression algorithm operates below 20 Gb/s on eight Xeon... Read more

5 March, 2011
Word Length Selection Method for Controller Implementation on FPGAs Using the VHDL-2008 Fixed-Point and <endeca_term>Floating-Point</endeca_term> Packages

Word Length Selection Method for Controller Implementation on FPGAs Using the VHDL-2008 Fixed-Point and Floating-Point Packages

...method for the implementation of digital controllers in both fixed-point and floating point hardware on FPGAs. This method uses the new types defined in... Read more

29 July, 2010
Proving Memory Safety of <endeca_term>Floating-Point</endeca_term> Computations by Combining Static and Dynamic Program Analysis

Proving Memory Safety of Floating-Point Computations by Combining Static and Dynamic Program Analysis

...image viewers and media players. Those types of applications tend to use floating-point instructions available on modern processors, yet existing whitebox fuzzers and SMT... Read more

16 July, 2010
Perturbing Numerical Calculations for Statistical Analysis of <endeca_term>Floating-Point</endeca_term> Program (In)Stability

Perturbing Numerical Calculations for Statistical Analysis of Floating-Point Program (In)Stability

...is difficult. It becomes even more difficult when writing scientific software involving floating-point numbers. Computers provide numbers with limited precision; when confronted with a... Read more

16 July, 2010

Knights Corner edges into supercomputing arena

...50-core Knights Corner processor carrying out a teraflop of double-precision floating point calculations. Photo credit: Intel The demonstration, at SC2011 on Tuesday, means... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Jack Clark
Achieving One TeraFLOPS With 28-nm FPGAs

Achieving One TeraFLOPS With 28-nm FPGAs

Due to recent technological developments, high-performance floating-point signal processing can, for the first time, be easily achieved using... Read more

1 September, 2010

Nvidia takes its GPU to the enterprise cloud

...the cloud. – Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia Tesla K10 will offer single-precision floating point performance of 4.58 teraflops and 320GB per second bandwidth, and... Read more

16 May, 2012 by Simon Bisson
Dell PowerEdge R815

Dell PowerEdge R815

...containing two tightly-coupled integer cores designed to share resources, including a Floating Point Unit (FPU) and L2 cache, rather than have resources dedicated to... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Alan Stevens
Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

...This system achieved a Linpack benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second). But this supercomputer isn't even finished. That... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff

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