Mixed-Precision and Energy-Efficiency in SEM Codes
Mixed-precision computing has emerged as a key strategy to improve performance and energy efficiency on current and future high-performance computing (HPC) systems. However, integrating mixed-precision into large, production-level scientific applications remains challenging due to concerns about numerical stability, accuracy, and the complexity of identifying which computations can safely tolerate reduced precision. Our results confirm that mixed-precision approaches, when carefully designed and guided by arithmetic and performance analysis, can yield significant improvements on HPC platforms for real-world scientific applications.