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The goal of Universal Numbers, or unums, is to replace IEEE floating-point with
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a number system that is more efficient and mathematically consistent in
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concurrent execution environments.
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The motivation to replace IEEE floating-point had been brewing in the HPC
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community since the late 90's as most algorithms became memory bound. The
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inefficiency of IEEE floating-point has been measured and agreed upon, but it
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was the AI Deep Learning community that moved first and replaced IEEE with
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number systems that are tailored to the application to yield speed-ups of two
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to three orders of magnitude.
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The Universal library is a ready-to-use header-only library that provides
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plug-in replacement for native types, and provides a low-friction environment
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to start exploring alternatives to IEEE floating-point in your own algorithms.
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WWW: https://github.com/stillwater-sc/universal
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