Flexfloat: A software library for transprecision computing

G Tagliavini, A Marongiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years approximate computing has been extensively explored as a paradigm to
design hardware and software solutions that save energy by trading off on the quality of the …

Speeding up the GENGA N-body integrator on consumer-grade graphics cards

R Brasser, SL Grimm, P Hatalova, JG Stadel - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Graphics processing unit (GPU) computing has become popular due to the
enormous calculation potential that can be harvested from a single card. The N-body …

Cooperative Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Task Execution and Resource Allocation in Vehicular Edge Computing

R Rauch, Z Becvar, P Mach… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer vision plays a crucial role in enabling connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to
observe and comprehend their surroundings. The computer vision tasks are typically based …

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication with Reduced-Precision Memory Accessor

D Mukunoki, M Kawai, T Imamura - 2023 IEEE 16th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mixed-precision computation, which uses multiple different precision in a single code, is
being studied to increase computational speed and energy efficiency. It typically uses the …

Adaptive precision sparse matrix–vector product and its application to krylov solvers

S Graillat, F Jézéquel, T Mary, R Molina - SIAM Journal on Scientific …, 2024 - SIAM
We introduce a mixed precision algorithm for computing sparse matrix-vector products and
use it to accelerate the solution of sparse linear systems by iterative methods. Our approach …

Efficient multibyte floating point data formats using vectorization

A Anderson, S Muralidharan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a scheme for reduced-precision representation of floating point data on a
continuum between IEEE-754 floating point types. Our scheme enables the use of lower …

Reduced-Precision and Reduced-Exponent Formats for Accelerating Adaptive Precision Sparse Matrix–Vector Product

S Graillat, F Jézéquel, T Mary, R Molina… - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Mixed precision algorithms aim at taking advantage of the performance of low precisions
while maintaining the accuracy of high precision. In particular adaptive precision algorithms …

[PDF][PDF] Floating-point architectures for energy-efficient transprecision computing

S Mach - 2021 - research-collection.ethz.ch
An era of exponentially improving computing efficiency is coming to an end as Moore's law
falters and Dennard scaling seems to have broken down. The power-wall obstacle fuels a …

Precision-Aware Iterative Algorithms Based on Group-Shared Exponents of Floating-Point Numbers

J Gao, J Shen, Y Zhang, W Ji, H Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04686, 2024 - arxiv.org
Iterative solvers are frequently used in scientific applications and engineering computations.
However, the memory-bound Sparse Matrix-Vector (SpMV) kernel computation hinders the …

A review of data representation formats for intelligent computing with emphasis on POSITs

S Balasubramani, U Jagadeesan - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Data representation is the foundation in computing. Starting from Abacus to Super
Computers the representation of data decides the complexity (in terms of processing time …