Re: [OMPI users] Use of __float128 with openmpi

2014-02-03 Thread Patrick Boehl
onal quad-precision floating-point > format is available on Wikipedia > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-double_%28arithmetic%29#Double-double_arithmetic). > > George. > > > On Feb 2, 2014, at 13:41 , Patrick Boehl > wrote: > >> Hello Jeff, >> >

Re: [OMPI users] Use of __float128 with openmpi

2014-02-02 Thread Patrick Boehl
Hello Tim, thank you for your reply! On 01.02.2014, at 21:28, Tim Prince wrote: > Where openmpi refers to "portable C types" I would take long double to be the > 80-bit hardware format you would have in a standard build of gcc for x86_64. > You should be able to gain some insight by examining

Re: [OMPI users] Use of __float128 with openmpi

2014-02-02 Thread Patrick Boehl
Up to now, I only found out that __float128 should be somehow the sum of two doubles. Again, I am grateful for any help! Best regards, Patrick > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Tim Prince wrote: >> >> On 02/01/2014 12:42 PM, Patrick Boehl wrote: >>> >>>

[OMPI users] Use of __float128 with openmpi

2014-02-01 Thread Patrick Boehl
Hi all, I have a question on datatypes in openmpi: Is there an (easy?) way to use __float128 variables with openmpi? Specifically, functions like MPI_Allreduce seem to give weird results with __float128. Essentially all I found was http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/I590/node100.html where they