Equation 12 · Part 2 · How AI Accelerator Architecture Actually Works
Symbol c
What this part means
c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol c→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
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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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