a bit more info - be aware tough it might not be easy to figure out what jobs have been run on this machine flemming -------------------------------------------- Flemming Videbaek Physics Department Bldg 510-D Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY11973 phone: 631-344-4106 cell: 631-681-1596 fax: 631-344-1334 e-mail: videbaek @ bnl gov ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hollowell" <hollowec_at_bnl.gov> To: "Flemming Videbaek" <videbaek_at_bnl.gov> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Your jobs on rcas0056 >> Thnaks for the information; >> Overall we have been in reasonable luck,since some but not too much >> analysis had been done on >> this machine since Friday. Do you have some more details on the errors e.g >> would 'normal' multiply, >> divide be ok? > > Integer division/multiplication likely worked properly. Any > floating point operations should be suspect, however. The simple > act of placing a constant float value into an FPU register > produced incorrect results: i.e., 3.1415... became 4.000000175... > > > Chris > _______________________________________________ Brahms-dev-l mailing list Brahms-dev-l_at_lists.bnl.gov http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-dev-lReceived on Wed Nov 15 2006 - 19:34:53 EST
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