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Well, they're not wrong... Given a highly-parallelizable numerics job, and all other things being equal, a 20 core 2.0Ghz machine will run the job in the same
by DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
Well, they're not wrong...
Given a highly-parallelizable numerics job, and all other things being equal, a 20 core 2.0Ghz machine will run the job in the same time as a 40 core 1.0Ghz machine.
...though usually we'd just give it in FLOPS - though FLOPS doesn't describe non-float operation performance.
Probably just a sales/marketing person who learned a new technical word and wants to sound knowledgable to the customer but it back-fires.
- zarzavat 3y agoAt the risk of torturing this analogy beyond recognition, it’s more like having an 8 core CPU but with a weak 150W PSU such that you can only run one core at a time.
- SecretDreams 3y agoAnalogy sufficiently tortured
- bee_rider 3y agoIs each core specialized to some particular type of task or something like that? Which would make this less silly of an idea.
- swyx 3y agoin my understanding with an 8 way MoE youre still running all 8 for every request. only if you’re making a router model then itd be the “weak PSU” analogy. and even then a sufficiently perfect router would essentially have to know enough about its routes to almost simulate them which idk if i can believe works
- Faaak 3y agoAmdahl's law though ...
- thfuran 3y ago...doesn't really bite you for embarrassingly parallel numerics work.