Equation 1 · Part 3 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach
multiplication
multiplication
What this part means
Multiply the quantities on either side.
Its job in the formula
Multiply the quantities on either side.
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The passage around this formula
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
Learn the underlying idea
Multiplication scales one quantity by another. A dot, a cross, or adjacent symbols can indicate a product.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [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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