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Today's HPC applications are producing extremely large amounts of data, such that data storage and analysis are becoming more challenging for scientific research. In this work, we design a new error-controlled lossy compression algorithm…

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In recent years, half precision floating-point arithmetic has gained wide support in hardware and software stack thanks to the advance of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Operating at half precision can…

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Errors in floating-point programs can lead to severe consequences, particularly in critical domains such as military, aerospace, and financial systems, making their repair a crucial research problem. In practice, some errors can be fixed…

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Error-bounded lossy compression has been a critical technique to significantly reduce the sheer amounts of simulation datasets for high-performance computing (HPC) scientific applications while effectively controlling the data distortion…

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The torrential influx of floating-point data from domains like IoT and HPC necessitates high-performance lossless compression to mitigate storage costs while preserving absolute data fidelity. Leveraging GPU parallelism for this task…

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Algorithms operating on real numbers are implemented as floating-point computations in practice, but floating-point operations introduce roundoff errors that can degrade the accuracy of the result. We propose $\Lambda_{num}$, a functional…

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