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Double-precision floating-point format

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Evaluating Charge Equilibration Methods To Generate Electrostatic Fields in Nanoporous Materials

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Özge Kadioglu

Charge equilibration (Qeq) methods can estimate the electrostatic potential of molecules and periodic frameworks by assigning point charges to each atom, using only a small fraction of the resources needed to compute density functional (DFT)-derived charge ...

2019

Trading off Energy versus Accuracy in Modern Computing Systems : From Digital Circuit Design to Programming Techniques

Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The slowdown of Moore's law, which has been the driving force of the electronics industry over the last 5 decades, is causing serious problem to Integrated Circuits (ICs) improvements. Technology scaling is becoming more and more complex and fabrication co ...

EPFL2018

Training DNNs with Hybrid Block Floating Point

Babak Falsafi, Martin Jaggi, Tao Lin, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira

The wide adoption of DNNs has given birth to unrelenting computing requirements, forcing datacenter operators to adopt domain-specific accelerators to train them. These accelerators typically employ densely packed full-precision floating-point arithmetic t ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

Mixed-precision architecture based on computational memory for training deep neural networks

Irem Boybat Kara, Abu Sebastian

Deep neural networks (DNN) have revolutionized the field of machine learning by providing unprecedented human-like performance in solving many real-world problems such as image or speech recognition. Training of large DNNs, however, is a computationally in ...

IEEE2018

STEP-NC compliant process planning of additive manufacturing: remanufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

Additive manufacturing is becoming one of the key methods for reproducing repair sections in remanufacturing processes. The major advantage of using additive processes is to minimize production time and waste. However, the surface quality and shape accurac ...

Springer London Ltd2017

Hierarchical Reversible Logic Synthesis Using LUTs

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken

Today's rapid advances in the physical implementation of quantum computers demand for scalable synthesis methods in order to map practical logic designs to quantum architectures. We present a synthesis algorithm for quantum computing based on k-LUT network ...

IEEE2017

Towards a Compiler for Reals

Viktor Kuncak, Eva Darulova

Numerical software, common in scientific computing or embedded systems, inevitably uses a finite-precision approximation of the real arithmetic in which most algorithms are designed. In many applications, the roundoff errors introduced by finite-precision ...

2017

An Inertial Sensor-Based Method for Estimating the Athlete's Relative Joint Center Positions and Center of Mass Kinematics in Alpine Ski Racing

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

For the purpose of gaining a deeper understanding of the relationship between external training load and health in competitive alpine skiing, an accurate and precise estimation of the athlete's kinematics is an essential methodological prerequisite. This s ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

A Low-power Carry Cut-Back Approximate Adder with Fixed-point Implementation and Floating-point Precision

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

This paper introduces an approximate adder architecture based on a digital quasi-feedback technique called Carry Cut-Back in which high-significance stages can cut the carry propagation chain at lower-significance positions. This lightweight approach preve ...

Ieee2016

A Bio-Inspired Reconfigurable Architecture for Local Binary Descriptors

Yusuf Leblebici, Selman Ergünay

Limited resources of embedded devices and increased real time constraints have raised interest to the binary description methods over the floating-point ones such as SIFT and SURF in computer vision applications. Although many software applications of the ...

Ieee2016