From 439d48d29da1b4691ac19880527117f9e8016b18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zimoun Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:02:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add julia-bfloat16s. * gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm (julia-bfloat16s): New variable. Signed-off-by: Efraim Flashner --- gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm index 47102ef6c5..b788276613 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm @@ -362,6 +362,34 @@ (define-public julia-benchmarktools benchmarks as well as comparing benchmark results.") (license license:expat))) +(define-public julia-bfloat16s + ;; Not tagged upstream + (let ((commit "ef6051e4308ed0c02f10168b99d226237e0ae33c") + (version "0.2.0")) + (package + (name "julia-bfloat16s") + (version version) + (source + (origin + (method git-fetch) + (uri (git-reference + (url "https://github.com/JuliaMath/BFloat16s.jl") + (commit commit))) + (file-name (git-file-name name version)) + (sha256 + (base32 "16sr578k4i47lhziri47nvspdrsni2wc1qjhs6hzffh9si6a7jfq")))) + (build-system julia-build-system) + (home-page "https://github.com/JuliaMath/BFloat16s.jl") + (synopsis "Define BFloat16 data type") + (description "This package defines the @code{BFloat16} data type. The +only currently available hardware implementation of this datatype are Google's +Cloud TPUs. As such, this package is suitable to evaluate whether using TPUs +would cause precision problems for any particular algorithm, even without +access to TPU hardware. Note that this package is designed for functionality, +not performance, so this package should be used for precision experiments +only, not performance experiments.") + (license license:expat)))) + (define-public julia-bioalignments (package (name "julia-bioalignments")