I have recently seen in my dynamics simulations 'vlimit exceeded' on my
dual xeon although when using the same restart the calculation runs fine
on a power4 IBM.
I know that implicit double precision is used in fortran code, but i
have no idea of what it means when the calculations are made on 32-bits
systems (pentium/athlon) or on 64-bits systems (power4, mips, ...).
I'm a little bit afraid since i have the impression that these errors
only appear on 32-bits machines. Are roundoff more important there ?
Can someone detail the implecit precision each architecture involves for
floating point operations ?
Are 32-bits machines 2 times less precise than 64-bits machines ?
I know that after a certain point (as precised by Dr. R. Duke) dynamics
do diverge 'naturally' because of roundoff but does it happen more
rapidly on 32-bits systems as i'm suspecting it form a lower precision ?
Any hint would be very helpfull.
Stéphane Teletchéa
Writing his PhD ...
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