Is FP64 dead? Why high-performance computing still needs double precision
"Looking at my user base today, if we bought a system with no FP64 support, I don't think it would be well received." - Pekka Manninen
Credit: AMD
As GPU architectures sprint toward FP4 for AI, scientific computing remains bound to native FP64 double precision
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