Equation 11 · Part 4 · How AI Accelerator Architecture Actually Works
multiplication
multiplication
What this part means
Multiply the quantities on either side.
Its job in the formula
Multiply the quantities on either side.
Full expression→multiplication→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
while the useful work performed is r c L multiply-accumulates — one per cell, once per streamed step, in steady state. Dividing useful work by the total cell-cycles available, r c T , gives an idealised utilization
Learn the underlying idea
Multiplication scales one quantity by another. A dot, a cross, or adjacent symbols can indicate a product.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [7] Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model for Floating-Point Programs and Multicore Architectures ↗
- [2] In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit ↗
- [6] SCALE-Sim: Systolic CNN Accelerator Simulator ↗
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