Equation 1 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach
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Symbol k
the shared inner dimension: columns in the first matrix and rows in the second.
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Multiplying an m k matrix by a k n matrix performs 2mnk floating-point operations while touching mk + kn + mn elements. If each element occupies s bytes, the ratio of work done to bytes moved is
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- [1] In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit ↗
- [3] TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings ↗
- [10] NVIDIA Hopper Tuning Guide ↗
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