Equation 6 · Part 3 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach
Symbol n
What this part means
the number of columns in the second matrix.
Its job in the formula
n is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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Where the article explains it
Multiplying an m k matrix by a k n matrix performs 2mnk floating-point operations while touching mk + kn + mn elements.
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 . which for large square matrices grows in proportion to the dimension. Double the matrix size and you roughly double the work performed per byte fetched. Almost nothing else in general-purpose computing behaves this way, and it is the entire economic basis for building a machine around one operation.
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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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