26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

A Stabilized FP16 Mixed-Precision Solver

27 Jul 2026, 14:00
20m
Crossland (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Crossland

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Software development and machines Software development and machines

Speaker

Dr Issaku Kanamori (R-CCS, RIKEN)

Description

We present a stabilized FP16 mixed-precision solver. Because the dynamic range of FP16 is much smaller than that of FP32, straightforward use of FP16 arithmetic may suffer from underflow and overflow. To address this issue, we introduce a rescaling procedure for the working vectors. The performance of the solver is evaluated on the Supercomputer Fugaku, which provides native FP16 SIMD support, and compared with that of a conventional FP32-based mixed-precision solver.

Authors

Dr Issaku Kanamori (R-CCS, RIKEN) Tatsumi Aoyama (U. of Tokyo) Kazuyuki Kanaya (University of Tsukuba) Hideo Matsufuru (KEK) Yusuke Namekawa (Fukuyama University) Hidekatsu Nemura (Osaka U.) Keigo Nitadori (RIKEN)

Presentation materials