# A Survey of Numerical Methods Utilizing Mixed Precision Arithmetic

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> **[Research: A Survey of Numerical Methods Utilizing Mixed Precision Arithmetic](https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/08/05/research-a-survey-of-numerical-methods-utilizing-mixed-precision-arithmetic/)**
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> Within the past years, hardware vendors have started designing low precision special function units in response to the demand of the machine learning community and their demand for high compute \[…\]

Paper here [https://www.icl.utk.edu/files/publications/2020/icl-utk-1392-2020.pdf](https://www.icl.utk.edu/files/publications/2020/icl-utk-1392-2020.pdf)