Floating-point error propagation in dataflow

A process of propagating a floating point error in dataflow, comprising:

• trapping a floating point error occurring from an invalid operation of a floating point arithmetic calculation in a plurality of parallelized floating point arithmetic calculations in dataflow;
• storing information regarding the error as a payload of a special value generated during the trapping;
• and
• resuming dataflow with the special value applied to further calculations dependent on the floating point arithmetic calculation.

A process for propagating floating point errors, comprising:

• performing a plurality of parallelized floating point arithmetic calculations in a dataflow;
• trapping an error, during exception handling, from an invalid operation during a floating point arithmetic calculation of the plurality of parallelized floating point arithmetic calculations;
• generating a special value as a result of the invalid operation;
• storing information regarding the error into a payload of the special value;
• resuming the plurality of parallelized floating point arithmetic calculation;
• and
• applying the special value in calculations dependent on the floating point arithmetic calculation.