JSIAM Letters
Online ISSN : 1883-0617
Print ISSN : 1883-0609
ISSN-L : 1883-0617
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Development and acceleration of multiple precision arithmetic toolbox MuPAT for Scilab
Satoko KikkawaTsubasa SaitoEmiko IshiwataHidehiko Hasegawa
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2013 Volume 5 Pages 9-12

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MuPAT enables the users to easily treat quadruple and octuple precision arithmetics as well as double precision arithmetic on Scilab. Using external C routines, we have also developed a high speed implementation MuPAT_c for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. MuPAT_c reduced the computation time especially for all octuple precision arithmetic and inner product of quadruple precision arithmetic. MuPAT_c can run 90-1200 times faster than MuPAT. We applied three different precisions to tridiagonalization by the Lanczos method and confirmed that a high precision arithmetic was essential for the Lanczos method to get accurate eigenvalues of real symmetric matrices.
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© 2013 The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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