Potential speedup using decimal floating-point hardware

Conference Record of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1073-1077

  Erle, Mark A ^a   Schulte, Michael J ^b   Linebarger, John M ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

DECIMAL FLOATING-POINT HARDWARE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 0038305287     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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