An Objective and Efficient Method for Assessing the Impact of Reduced-Precision Calculations On Solution Correctness
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- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1608761
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1762883
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-145080; LLNL-JRNL-818576
Journal ID: ISSN 1942-2466
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830; AC52‐07NA27344; AC02‐05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1942-2466
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; numerical solution; verification; solution convergence; time integration; high‐performance computing
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Zhang, Shixuan, Wan, Hui, Rasch, Philip J., Singh, Balwinder, Larson, Vincent E., and Woodward, Carol S. An Objective and Efficient Method for Assessing the Impact of Reduced-Precision Calculations On Solution Correctness. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1029/2019MS001817.
Zhang, Shixuan, Wan, Hui, Rasch, Philip J., Singh, Balwinder, Larson, Vincent E., & Woodward, Carol S. An Objective and Efficient Method for Assessing the Impact of Reduced-Precision Calculations On Solution Correctness. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001817
Zhang, Shixuan, Wan, Hui, Rasch, Philip J., Singh, Balwinder, Larson, Vincent E., and Woodward, Carol S. Tue .
"An Objective and Efficient Method for Assessing the Impact of Reduced-Precision Calculations On Solution Correctness". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001817. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1608761.
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