Equation 10 · Part 1 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach
Symbol Q
What this part means
the number of bytes.
Its job in the formula
Q 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 Q→Article meaning
Where the article explains it
with W operations and Q bytes.
The passage around this formula
with W operations and Q bytes. Let be the machine’s peak arithmetic rate and its achievable memory bandwidth. Then attainable performance is bounded by
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Sources cited in the article section
- [2] Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model for Floating-Point Programs and Multicore Architectures ↗
- [4] AI and Memory Wall ↗
- [5] FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness ↗
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