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The Computation of Transcendental Functions on the IA-64 Architecture (1999)
| Venue: | Intel Technology Journal |
| Citations: | 23 - 3 self |
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@ARTICLE{Harrison99thecomputation,
author = {John Harrison and Ted Kubaska and Shane Story and Microprocessor Software Labs and Intel Corporation},
title = {The Computation of Transcendental Functions on the IA-64 Architecture},
journal = {Intel Technology Journal},
year = {1999},
volume = {4},
pages = {234--251}
}
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Abstract
The fast and accurate evaluation of transcendental functions (e.g. exp, log, sin, and atan) is vitally important in many fields of scientific computing. Intel provides a software library of these functions that can be called from both the C and FORTRAN programming languages. By exploiting some of the key features of the IA-64 floating-point architecture, we have been able to provide double-precision transcendental functions that are highly accurate yet can typically be evaluated in between 50 and 70 clock cycles. In this paper, we discuss some of the design principles and implementation details of these functions.
