Equation 5 · Part 1 · The Deployment Envelope: Small Models Where the Power Is Not
Symbol I
What this part means
the operational intensity of the kernel.
Its job in the formula
I 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 I→Article meaning
Where the article explains it
with the peak arithmetic rate, B the achievable memory bandwidth and I the operational intensity of the kernel.
The passage around this formula
with the peak arithmetic rate, B the achievable memory bandwidth and I the operational intensity of the kernel. If I is small, the second term wins and the accelerator’s headline throughput is irrelevant.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model for Multicore Architectures ↗
- [3] Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference ↗
- [23] Introducing quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint ↗
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