Hi!
Although quite rare, it sometimes happens that tasks computed with an SSE2-CPU gets invalidated due to differences when running the same task on an AVX-CPU.
As an example of this see WU 18375163.
I'm not exactly sure of why, but a possible explanation could be the use of FMA (fused multiply-add) inside the AVX CPU. Using FMA may produce a slightly different result due to using higher internal precision, and if the calculations are very sensitive and divergent, this could lead to very different end result. (The "butterfly effect")
Could something be done about this issue?
(to avoid invalids and loss of creds :-(
Kindest regards,
Gunnar
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Hi there, unfortunately I'm not able to check the results output files right now, the invalid one was deleted from the system after validation. We are aware of the issue, one way of solving it is by removing the less significant results (using a threshold) from the output files thus minimizing the possible (precision related) differences. I will increase this threshold for the Hs workunits. As a side effect the output file will be slightly smaller.
The threshold itself is an input parameter of the work generator so it will take some time to be effective (already generated workunits will not be affected by this change).
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