Machine Baseline for CPU Performance Engineering on an M4 Pro
Establishing single-core FP32 compute, DRAM bandwidth, and cache hierarchy ceilings on Apple M4 Pro as denominators for kernel optimization.
Posts tagged "AI systems performance"
A Mental Model of TPUs for Performance Engineering
A visual mental model for understanding TPU architecture and how it relates to ML workloads.
Training a 360M Parameter Model with Performance Discipline
Pretraining SmolLM-360M on a single A100 GPU within a 30-hour window, focusing on feasibility analysis, throughput measurement, and hardware efficiency optimization.
An Interactive Guide to Rooflines
A walkthrough of the roofline model — compute vs memory bounds, arithmetic intensity, and how different kernels land on the plot — with two interactive widgets.