PRecision Estimation and Control In Scientific and Engineering computing
Software produced in the framework
of the European
Project PINEAPL coordinated
by NAG Ltd.
(4th Framework Programme #20018)
PRECISE is a set of tools provided to help the user
set up computer experiments to explore the impact of finite precision on
the quality of convergence of numerical methods. Because stability is at
the heart of the phenomenon under study -- mathematical as well as numerical
stabilities --, PRECISE allows users to investigate stability by a straightforward
randomization of selected data, then let the computer produce a sample
of perturbed solutions and associated residuals, or a sample of perturbed
spectra.
It allows users to perform a complete statistical backward error analysis on a numerical method or an algorithm to solve a general nonlinear problem of the form $F(x) = y$ (matrix or polynomial equation), at regular points, and in the neighborhood of algebraic singularities. It provides an estimate of the distance to the nearest singularity viewed by the computer, as well as of the order of this singularity. In the case of matrix computations, it can also help to investigate robustness to spectral instability by means of graphical display of perturbed spectra. PRECISE offers the following facilities: 2 modules
A complete description of PRECISE is given in F. Chaitin-Chatelin and V. Fraysse, Lectures on Finite Precision Computations, 1996, SIAM. Comments? travies@cerfacs.fr
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