SVD accuracy (single vs double precision)

[felipe]

Hi,

i'm a noob regarding to CUDA/cula and I'm trying to test the gesvd function with a 12x9 matrix. Is it normal to have a little error using single precision? The orthogonal and reconstruction tests are close but they are not exact. If I use double precision, the error would be less? or am I not considering something else?

Thanks in advance.
Regards.

[john]

I'll need a little more information from you here. Can you quantify how inexact and your method for measuring the error? Floating point arithmetic is basically never "exact" and results between different platforms will basically always show some sort of difference. The question is how much.

[felipe]

Hi john,

I realized that I've not considered something. The program that printed the matrices of the SVD was truncating the decimals after the comma (I did not write the program), so obviously the result was not exact when the original matrix was reconstructed via A = U * S * VT.

Sorry and thanks for your time.
Regards.

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