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 * [Fast Floating Point Square Root](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5060/4e9aff0e37089c4ab9a376c3f35761ffe28b.pdf)
 * [Reciprocal Square Root Algorithm](http://www.acsel-lab.com/arithmetic/arith15/papers/ARITH15_Takagi.pdf)
 
+## CORDIC and related algorithms
+* [BKM (log(x) and e^x)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BKM_algorithm)
+* [CORDIC](http://www.andraka.com/files/crdcsrvy.pdf)
+ - Does not have an easy way of computing tan(x)
+* [zipcpu CORDIC](https://zipcpu.com/dsp/2017/08/30/cordic.html)
+* [Low latency and Low error floating point TCORDIC](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7784797) (email Michael or Cole if you don't have IEEE access)
+
 ## IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754)
 
 Almost all modern computers follow the IEEE Floating-Point Standard. Of
@@ -66,6 +73,12 @@ it is unfortunately not freely available and requires a payment to
 access. However, each of the Libre RISC-V members already have access
 to the document.
 
+## Past FPU Mistakes to learn from
+
+* [Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion on 
+Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson ](https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/)
+* [Intel overstates FPU accuracy 06/01/2013](http://notabs.org/fpuaccuracy)
+
 # Khronos Standards
 
 The Khronos Group creates open standards for authoring and acceleration
@@ -108,7 +121,7 @@ although performance is not evaluated.
 
 # Various POWER Communities
  - [An effort to make a 100% Libre POWER Laptop](https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/)
-   I still can't figure out if its chip is POWER8 or POWER9. Please verify!
+   The T2080 is a POWER8 chip.
  - [Power Progress Community](https://www.powerprogress.org/campaigns/donations-to-all-the-power-progress-community-projects/)
    Supporting/Raising awareness of various POWER related open projects on the FOSS
    community
@@ -167,17 +180,20 @@ test. It's still in development as far as I can tell.
 
 * //TODO LINK TO RISC-V CONFORMANCE TEST
 
-## IEEE 754 Tests
+## IEEE 754 Testing/Emulation
+
+IEEE 754 has no official tests for floating-point but there are
+well-known third party tools to check such as John Hauser's TestFloat.
 
-IEEE 754 has no official tests for floating-point but there are several
-well-known third party tools to check such as John Hauser's SoftFloat
-and TestFloat.
+There is also his SoftFloat library, which is a software emulation library for IEEE 754.
 
 * <http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/>
 
-Jacob is also making a Rust library to check IEEE 754 operations.
+Jacob is also working on an IEEE 754 software emulation library written in Rust which also has Python bindings:
 
-* <http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2019-September/002737.html>
+* Source: <https://salsa.debian.org/Kazan-team/simple-soft-float>
+* Crate: <https://crates.io/crates/simple-soft-float>
+* Autogenerated Docs: <https://docs.rs/simple-soft-float/>
 
 A cool paper I came across in my research is "IeeeCC754++ : An Advanced
 Set of Tools to Check IEEE 754-2008 Conformity" by Dr. Matthias Hüsken.
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 # Server setup
 
+[[resources/server-setup/web-server]]
+
 [[resources/server-setup/git-mirroring]]
+
+[[resources/server-setup/nagios-monitoring]]
+