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- From: uunet!gatech.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!chpf127 (J. Eaton)
-
- In article <208@longway.TIC.COM>
- > From: uunet!tahoe.unr.edu!bryson (Derry Bryson)
- >
- > I am searching for a standard to check floating point processors and
- > emulators against. Basically what I would like to find is a program
- > that performs several operations and evaluates the accuracy of the answers
- > based upon some kind of accepted standard. If anyone has any information
- > or advice I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.
- ...
- > Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 28
-
- There is a program called PARANOIA available from netlib@anl-mcs.arpa
- (the online software library maintained at Argonne National Laboratory)
- which does what you want. There are five versions I know about, one
- each in C, Pascal, and Basic, and two in Fortran (double/single).
- This program tries to test the floating point processor and/or library of
- floating point subroutines. If the machine you use has one library
- which all languages share it shouldn't matter what version you use
- (but running all of them might prove to be interesting...)
-
- To get a copy of one of the versions, send a message of the form:
-
- send <item> from paranoia
-
- <item> is one of: paranoia.b, paranoia.c, paranoia.p, spara.f, or dpara.f
-
- your message can include more than one request, but only one request
- per line. You might also want to get the general netlib index, by sending
- the message:
-
- send index
-
-
- J. Eaton
- UT Department of Chemical Engineering
-
- Not really doing anything with chemicals.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 31
-
-