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Re:What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-... by rwallace on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:01PM (#23679412)
> resurgence of fixed point arithmetic in hpc

Where is fixed point arithmetic resurging in HPC? Serious question; I haven't heard about this, but if it's happening in places I haven't heard about, I would be interested in looking at them.

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Re:What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-... by bjourne on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:03PM (#23680301)
Google is using fixed point arithmetic in their TPU clusters. See https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67952-5_...
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