[petsc-users] Low floating precision numerical solver?

Manuel Valera mvalera-w at sdsu.edu
Tue Jul 23 15:02:35 CDT 2019


Understood, thanks for your answers,



On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 1:01 PM Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   Manuel,
>
>     We don't have support for this yet for GPUs, it is on our list but not
> a priority, just utilizing GPUs well is our first priority.
>
>     Barry
>
>
>     Note what the people who give these types of presentations forget to
> emphasis enough is that though this techniques for some algorithms can give
> good benefits on GPUs utilizing lower precision on CPUs doesn't generally
> benefit you much.
>
>
> > On Jul 23, 2019, at 2:17 PM, Manuel Valera via petsc-users <
> petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if PETSc had some form of a low precision linear solver
> algorithm like seen in:
> >
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/rv5quc3k72qdpmp/iciam_lowprec19.pdf?dl=0
> >
> > I understand this treatment is coming from one of the NAG library
> developers,
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
>
>
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