Unum Computing: An Energy Efficient and Massively Parallel Approach to Numerics

Re:Unum Computing: An Energy Efficient and Massively Paralle... by jlgustafson on Friday July 24, 2015 @07:04PM (#9945764)

There are actually quite a number of places where Mathematica gives a wrong answer and unum math does not! For example, if you ask Mathematica to find all real values of x for which 1 == 1, it returns the empty set. Unum math correctly returns the entire real number line.

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Re:Unum Computing: An Energy Efficient and Massively Paralle... by bane on Friday July 24, 2015 @08:08PM (#9945974)

Great! Welcome to HN. Since you're here and I posted your slides, I'm wondering what you see as the most significant challenges towards implementation of this idea and what kind of performance delta (plus or minus) we might see over the existing standards?

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Re:Unum Computing: An Energy Efficient and Massively Paralle... by haddr on Friday July 24, 2015 @08:12PM (#9945987)

I suppose that's the consequence of the ubiquity of IEEE floating point standard... I worry that we will have to live with that for some time still...

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