Equation 8 · Part 1 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach
Symbol I
What this part means
I is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
I is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The passage around this formula
Define arithmetic intensity I as the ratio of arithmetic operations performed to bytes moved between the accelerator and its off-chip memory: . 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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