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FP8 Is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail

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by ebiederm

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Assuming this is correct that is a very intriguing result.
FP64 emulated with FP8 running faster than the native FP64 implementation.

by aappleby

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I feel like there's gotta be a catch in there somewhere, like "fails catastrophically when computing logarithms" or something. skeptical