Title :
High-precision floating-point arithmetic in scientific computation
Author :
Bailey, David H.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., CA, USA
Abstract :
IEEE 64-bit floating-point arithmetic is sufficient for most scientific applications, but a rapidly growing body of scientific computing applications requires a higher level of numeric precision. Software packages have yielded interesting scientific results that suggest numeric precision in scientific computations could be as important to program design as algorithms and data structures.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; floating point arithmetic; natural sciences computing; software packages; IEEE 64-bit floating-point arithmetic; high-precision floating-point arithmetic; numeric precision; program design; scientific computation; Application software; Floating-point arithmetic; High level languages; High performance computing; Mathematics; Packaging; Personal communication networks; Software algorithms; Software packages; Software performance; climate modeling; computational chemistry; computational physics; experimental mathematics; high-precision arithmetic; quantum theory;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2005.52
