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Quote: wonglediff identifies numeric instability by running a program multiple times while randomly changing the floating-point rounding mode

QuoteRef: eggePR4_2005 , p. abstract



Topic:
quality assurance
Topic:
probabilistic and randomized algorithms
Topic:
numerical error

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wonglediff is a program that tests the sensitivity … in parallel. On Unix and Linux kernels, wonglediff … process state. When execution terminates, it then summarizes … checks the sensitivity of programs to random changes … toggling the IEEE-754 rounding mode of the program … for the program. Although the analysis does not … does serve as a particularly useful and revealing … [p. 319] The overhead of running the program a …   Google-1   Google-2

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