Re: [Starpu-devel] Support for half precision

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@inria.fr>]

Hatem Ltaief, le ven. 19 oct. 2018 15:20:24 +0000, a ecrit:
> We would like to use a tile matrix in single precision to host tiles in 
> single precision as well as tiles in half precision. When about to operate 
> on tiles containing half precision data, then only half of the data tile is 
> meaningful, we would like starpu to transfer only the meaningful data from 
> the tiles when needed, ie full data tile for single precision and half data 
> tile for half precision.
> Basically, you are saying that we can allocate our overall matrix with tile 
> data structure in single precision, and at the time of the starpu data 
> registration done on a tile-basis, we should specify the proper element 
> size.
> Is that correct?

Are the half-precision elements contiguous in memory?

Samuel