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@HPCpodcast-110: John Gustafson on AI, HPC, Making Every Bit Count – In Depth
17 September 2026

@HPCpodcast-110: John Gustafson on AI, HPC, Making Every Bit Count – In Depth

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

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Can AI and high-performance computing get better answers with fewer bits? HPC pioneer John Gustafson, author of Every Bit Counts, joins Doug Black and Shahin Khan to challenge the default reliance on 64-bit floating point, and explain why numerical precision belongs at the center of the debate over computing performance, memory bandwidth and energy use.


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