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

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Re: Are they using the wrong datatype?

This is fixed precision so A+B == B+A. I suspect this is precisely why they know it is an issue with the titan-v itself giving the wrong answer occasionally.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010465512003098?via%3Dihub

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