The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (710 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073FNVT3V |
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| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Concerned small-D democrat said This book is revolutionary. This book is revolutionary. That is the only way to describe it. I have been a professional computer science researcher for almost This book is revolutionary Concerned small-D democrat This book is revolutionary. That is the only way to describe it. I have been a professional computer science researcher for almost 40 years, and only once or twice before have I seen a book that is destined to make such a profound change in the way we think about computation. It is hard to imagine that after 70 years or so of computer arithmetic that there is anything new to say about it, but this book reinvents the subject from the ground up, from the very notion of finite precision numbers to their bit-level representation, through the basic ari. 0 years, and only once or twice before have I seen a book that is destined to make such a profound change in the way we think about computation. It is hard to imagine that after 70 years or so of computer arithmetic that there is anything new to say about it, but this book reinvents the subject from the ground up, from the very notion of finite precision numbers to their bit-level representation, through the basic ari. Amazing! A brilliant technical work and a "page turner" in the same book Paul M Sweazey Sure there will be naysayers, but 10 years from now we will look back to floating point as if it represented the dark ages. Structural engineering, Cosmology, and even high school calculus will be distinctly improved, startups will be born, and future generations will find that science and math are less baffling and more honest than today.I bought this book because of my slight hope that it would show me an improved floating point variant. Instead I discovered a fundamental breakthrough. Gordon Bell says that the next step is implementation and te. Revolutionary new concepts, a must read in a world of automation. Review: The End of Error: Unum Computing by John L. GustafsonEmeritus Professor, Lenore M. Mullin PhDDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity at Albany, SUNYScientist, and ConsultantI have spent my entire 35+ year career studying, programming (applications and systems) teaching, and researching scientific computing: algorithms, software, languages, hardware, design and verification). I have also worked and published with computer engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians. In addition, I have studied pedagogy and educational methods that wo
The examples are engaging, well thought out, and simple to follow."Jack Dongarra, University Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee"John Gustafson presents a bold and brilliant proposal for a revolutionary number representation system, unum, for scientific (and potentially all other) computers. While the title is provocative, the content provides an illuminating discussion of the issues. This leads to arithmetic that is algebraically much cleaner, without rounding error, overflow underflow, or negative zero, and with clean and consistent treatment of positive and negative infinity and NaN. "The author of the present book believes that it is time to supplement the century-old floating point arithmetic with something better: unum arithmetic. It is surely destined to be a classic."David Jefferson, Center for Advanced Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Labor
A pioneer in high-performance computing, he introduced cluster computing in 1985 and first demonstrated scalable massively parallel performance on real applications in 1988. This became known as Gustafson’s Law, for which he won the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize. Find more details on his website.. Dr. He is a former Director at Intel Labs and former Chief Product Architect at AMD. Gustafson is an applied physicist and mathema
The Future of Numerical ComputingWritten by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to computer arithmetic: the universal number (unum). It illustrates how this novel approach can solve problems that have vexed engineers and scientists for decades, including problems that have been historically limited to serial processing.Suitable for Anyone Using Computers for CalculationsThe book is accessible to anyone who uses computers for technical calculations, with much of the book only requiring high school math. The author makes the mathematics interesting through numerous analogies. This new number type obtains more accurate answers than floating-point arithmetic yet uses fewer bits in many cases, saving memory, bandwidth, energy, and power.A Complete Revamp of Computer Arithmetic from the Ground UpRichly illustrated in color, this groundbreaking book represents a fundamental change in how to perform calculations automatically. He clearly defines jargon and uses color-coded boxes for mathematical formulas, computer code, important descri