Knuth's Challenge: Analyze everything your computer does in one second

Re:Knuth's Challenge: Analyze everything your computer does ... by SapphireSun on Friday September 30, 2016 @03:28PM (#12614680)

GPUs are definitely in the performance at the expense of correctness bucket. It's common for errors to occur in the LSB which isn't a big deal for colors, but might be a big deal for data.

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Re:Knuth's Challenge: Analyze everything your computer does ... by gpderetta on Friday September 30, 2016 @03:36PM (#12614728)

Aren't the last few generations of GPUs fully IEEE compliant?

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Re:Knuth's Challenge: Analyze everything your computer does ... by wyldfire on Friday September 30, 2016 @05:48PM (#12615465)

I assume that SapphireSun refers (primarily) to individual manufactured device faults not a problem where the design fails to comply with the floating point standard. EDIT: although the faults I'm referring to would be just as likely in the MSB so maybe not.

SapphireSun, these are mitigated in large part by ECC. It was offered by both major manufacturers and now at least one of them still offers it.

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