Start: May 3 2016 18:30 End: May 3 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Speakers: * UNUM Computing - Lev Lafayette * Second talk to be announced UNUM Computing UNUM is an abbreviation of the Universal Number format developed by John Gustafson in response to the limtations of standard floating point formats. UNUMS provide greater accuracy - and indeed claim to abolish computational error altogether - with typically fewer bits and therefore less power consumption. UNUMS claim to have no overflow, no underflow, and no rounding. Implementations have been made in some mathematical programming languages (e.g., Julia, Python) but hardware manufacturers have been slow to express enthusiasm. Lev Lafayette is the HPC Support and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he spent several years in a similar role at the recently deceased Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing and has spent many years on the Linux Users of Victoria committee. Second talk to be announced. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Late arrivals, please call (0490) 049 589 for access to the venue. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat and Infoxchange for their help in obtaining the meeting venues. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.