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Equation 3 · Part 1 · Locality Is the Whole Game: The Memory Hierarchy and What a Kernel Does Not Read

Symbol P_max

Pmax⁡P_{\max}
Pmax⁡P_{\max}

What this part means

the peak arithmetic rate.

Its job in the formula

PmP_max is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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with Pmax⁡P_{\max} the peak arithmetic rate, I the arithmetic intensity in operations per byte, and B the achievable bandwidth at the level that dominates.

The passage around this formula

with Pmax⁡P_{\max} the peak arithmetic rate, I the arithmetic intensity in operations per byte, and B the achievable bandwidth at the level that dominates. The two terms cross at a ridge point I∗I^{*} = Pmax⁡P_{\max}/B . Below it a kernel is memory-bound and its runtime is set by traffic; above it the kernel is compute-bound and traffic is hidden.

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