- Title
- High-precision computation and mathematical physics
- Creator
- Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Jonathan M.
- Relation
- 12th Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research 2008, (ACAT08). Proceedings of the 12th Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research 2008 (Erice, Italy 3-7 November, 2008)
- Relation
- http://pos.sissa.it/index.html
- Publisher
- Proceedings of Science
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- At the present time, IEEE 64-bit floating-point arithmetic is sufficiently accurate for most scientific applications. However, for a rapidly growing body of important scientific computing applications, a higher level of numeric precision is required. Such calculations are facilitated by high-precision software packages that include high-level language translation modules to minimize the conversion effort. This paper presents a survey of recent applications of these techniques and provides some analysis of their numerical requirements. These applications include supernova simulations, climate modeling, planetary orbit calculations, Coulomb n-body atomic systems, scattering amplitudes of quarks, gluons and bosons, nonlinear oscillator theory, Ising theory, quantum field theory and experimental mathematics. We conclude that high-precision arithmetic facilities are now an indispensable component of a modern large-scale scientific computing environment.
- Subject
- scientific computing applications; high precision software packages; mathematics; calculations; mathematical physics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1038278
- Identifier
- uon:13529
- Language
- eng
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