Floating Point

6 articles · Latest January 15, 2026

Bart Schilperoort·Jan 15, 2026

Use Julia to write code that runs on any GPU

Use Julia to write code that runs on any GPU 10 How to write Julia code than can run on any GPU, and why you would want to do that. As the name implies, the main use of Graphics Pr...

Flavio Hafner·May 6, 2025

Benchmarking LLM fine-tuning on different HPC systems

43 > Authors: Flavio Hafner (Netherlands eScience center), Mattie Niznik (Princeton Research Computing), Malte Lüken (Netherlands eScience center), Alessandra Maranca (Princeton Un...

Bart Schilperoort·Apr 22, 2025

Keeping your scientific data files small

Keeping your scientific data files small An RSE’s guide to NetCDF compression If you’ve ever watched a crawling progress bar while transferring research data, or received a dreaded...

Christiaan Meijer·Apr 5, 2024

Masking time-series for eXplainable AI

Why did my Machine Learning (ML) model make this decision? Is it paying attention to the right elements of the data we give it? Figure 1: In the signal on the left, the spike is a...

Alessio Sclocco·Jan 16, 2024

Talking about energy-efficient GPU computing at SC23

1 November is the time for Supercomputing, or SC as it is called nowadays, and in 2023 the largest High-Performance Computing (HPC) conference in the world took place in Denver, US...

Patrick Bos·Aug 6, 2018

floating (point) butterfly effect

Searching for tiny bugs that cause big problems I know it’s a bug, but it’s so pretty… what harm could it do? Last year, I took a few weeks to look into floating point round-off er...