Equation 7 · Part 5 · The Physical Economics of Inference: Bandwidth, Energy, and the Limits of a Datacenter
Symbol p
What this part means
p 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
p 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 p→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
read in full every step for every active request. Total bytes moved per step across a batch of b requests at sequence length s is therefore approximately . and the achievable step rate is B divided into the device’s usable bandwidth. Two things follow immediately.
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