Dr. Moritz Lehmann<p>Interesting take from an <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/Nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nvidia</span></a> engineer I met at <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/ISC25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISC25</span></a>: "Do you need IEEE-754 compliant <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/FP64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FP64</span></a>, or do you need digits? Digits we can get you through FP64 emulation."</p><p>Not sure what to make of that. Things were an absolute mess before the IEEE-754 standard, and I wouldn't want to ever go back to that. No standards means you cannot at all port software between hardware architectures even from within the same vendor. Having to re-architect software for each and every new chip is not gonna happen.</p>