[gmx-developers] Posit-enablement of GROMACS

[Jernej Zidar]

Dear Theodore,

You should try and contact the Gromacs' project leader Mark Abraham about it.

On a separete note: I'd be interested to test the posit-enabled
version of Gromacs.

Regards,
Jernej Zidar
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:14 PM Theodore Omtzigt
<theo at stillwater-sc.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Devs:
>
>
> I am trying to connect with the current developers/maintainers of the GROMACS code. We have been working with a large international consortium of computational scientists on a new number system, called posits, to replace IEEE floating point with a high-performance reproducible tapered floating point format with higher numerical accuracy.
>
> One of our supercomputer center customers want to enable GROMACS with this new number system, and I am looking for subject matter experts that we should work with to enable GROMACS with the C++ posit arithmetic library that has been developed for the posit-based hardware accelerators.
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> Looking forward to connecting with the computational kernel SMEs of GROMACS.
>
> With warm regards,
>
> Theodore Omtzigt
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