Today’s readings:

(Lecture 22, Monday 5/18/2015)

• Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, by David Kirk and Wen-mei Hwu, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (2010), Chapter 7 (Floating Point). (9 pp). Available on-line Draft Form

• To read further about IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic
  • Dealing with the Unexpected: William Kahan and the Need for Graceful Exits, M. Pössel, Scientific American, Oct 2013.
  • Lecture Notes on the Status of the IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic, by Prof. W. Kahan.
  • IEEE 754: Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. A web page with more resources.
  • What Every Computer Scientist should know about Computer Arithmetic, by David Goldberg, 2001. PDF