alt.hn

6/8/2026 at 10:15:24 PM

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

 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06510

by matt_d

6/9/2026 at 3:29:38 PM

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

by aappleby

6/9/2026 at 2:07:28 AM

Assuming this is correct that is a very intriguing result.

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

by ebiederm