Reply to post: Re: Are they using the wrong datatype?

2 + 2 = 4, er, 4.1, no, 4.3... Nvidia's Titan V GPUs spit out 'wrong answers' in scientific simulations

kouja

Re: Are they using the wrong datatype?

Agree, just

s/commutative/associative/

floating point is commutative.

Anyway I assume the scientific algorithm is designed to be stable accounting for parallel execution. (so associative errors should not accumulate this way).

=> somerthing more than just an algorithm to blame

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