KIT | KIT-Bibliothek | Impressum | Datenschutz

Unums 2.0: An Interview with John L. Gustafson

Tichy, Walter F. ORCID iD icon

Abstract:

In an earlier interview (April 2016), Ubiquity spoke with John Gustafson about the unum, a new format for floating point numbers. The unique property of unums is that they always know how many digits of accuracy they have. Now Gustafson has come up with yet another format that, like the unum 1.0, always knows how accurate it is. But it also allows an almost arbitrary mapping of bit patterns to the reals. In doing so, it paves the way for custom number systems that squeeze the maximum accuracy out of a given number of bits. This new format could have prime applications in deep learning, big data, and exascale computing.


Volltext §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000060347
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1145/3001758
Dimensions
Zitationen: 8
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2016
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1530-2180
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-603472
KITopen-ID: 1000060347
Erschienen in Ubiquity
Verlag Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Seiten Article No. 1
Nachgewiesen in Dimensions
KIT – Die Forschungsuniversität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
KITopen Landing Page