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Equation 2 · Part 2 · Model Systems in 2035: Four Scenarios, Their Signals, and What Would Falsify Them

Symbol t

B(t)B(t)
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t 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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Write F(t) for peak arithmetic throughput and B(t) for memory bandwidth. The quantity that matters for a serving system is their ratio, because it sets the arithmetic intensity — operations per byte moved — at which a machine becomes compute-bound rather than bandwidth-bound:

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