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FP8 Is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail (arxiv.org)
ebiederm 2 days ago [-]
Assuming this is correct that is a very intriguing result.

FP64 emulated with FP8 running faster than the native FP64 implementation.

aappleby 1 days ago [-]
I feel like there's gotta be a catch in there somewhere, like "fails catastrophically when computing logarithms" or something. skeptical
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