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Header-only library for conversion to/from half-precision floating point formats

• Supports IEEE and ARM alternative half-precision floating-point format
  • Property converts infinities and NaNs
  • Properly converts denormal numbers, even on systems without denormal support
• Header-only library, no installation or build required
• Compatible with C99 and C++11
• Fully covered with unit tests and microbenchmarks

The library is developed byMarat Dukhan of Georgia Tech. FP16 is a research project atRichard Vuduc's HPC Garage lab in the Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, School of Computational Science and Engineering.

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Award Number 1339745. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of NSF.