NGT - Openlab "Optimising Floating Point Precision" Workshop

from Tuesday 1 July 2025 (13:00) to Wednesday 2 July 2025 (18:00)
CERN (40/S2-B01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jul 2025
2 Jul 2025
AM
09:00 Using physics knowledge to improve numerical stability - Enrico Bothmann (CERN)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
09:30 Double-double for virtual amplitude evaluation - Vitaly Magerya (CERN)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
10:00 An overview of mixed precision strategies for scientific computing - Theo Mary (Computer Lab of Paris 6 (Lip6))   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
10:30 Adaptive Floating-Point Quantization for Efficient Neural Networks - Nicolo Ghielmetti (CERN)  
10:50 Discussion - Questions   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
11:05 --- Coffee ---
11:35 Mixed precision ab initio tensor network state methods adapted for NVIDIA. Blackwell technology via emulated FP64 arithmetic - Ors Legeza (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
PM
14:00 Welcome Session - Stefan Roiser (CERN)  
14:10 Problem statement from experiments and SFT - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)  
14:40 Problem statement from Theory Department - Jacob Finkenrath  
14:50 Discussion - Questions  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
15:30 Floating Point Emulation in NVDIA Math Libraries - Samuel Rodriguez (NVidia)  
16:15 Advancing AI with AMD: Open Source, Sovereign Innovation, and the Latest in CPU & GPU Performance - Sayed Maudodi Joerg Roskowetz  
16:45 VXP: Extended Precision Accelerator - Eric Guthmuller (CEA France)  
17:05 Extended Precision in Convex Optimisation - David Herrera-Marti (CEA France)  
17:25 Discussion - Questions  
17:45 --- Networking Cocktail ---
12:05 TNL: Numerical Library for Modern Parallel Architectures - Thomas Oberhuber (Czech Technical University in Prague)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
12:20 Float32 Expansions – A Possible Answer for Scientific Computing in the Era of AI-Driven GPU Development - František Stloukal (Czech Technical University in Prague)  
12:35 Discussion - Questions   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
13:05 --- Lunch ---
14:20 Floating-Point Error Estimation Using Automatic Differentiation - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
14:50 Precision auto-tuning and control of accuracy in high performance simulations - Fabienne Jézéquel (LIP6, Sorbonne Université)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
15:20 Experiences with CADNA and the Madgraph5 Event Generator - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
15:50 --- Coffee ---
16:20 Emulating Matrix Multiplication Using Mixed-Precision Computation - Katsuhisa Ozaki (Shibaura Institute of Technology)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
16:50 Discussion - Questions   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
17:10 Closing Session   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)