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Catalog
· Chips & Density
From Silicon to System
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Module 1
The Silicon Illusion: Why the Number on the Box Lies
The Accelerator Is Not the Product
· 3 min · narrated
Peak Versus Sustained: The Utilization Gap
· 3 min · narrated
Module review
Module 2
Feeding the Chip: Memory and Interconnect
The Memory Wall: Why Bandwidth Is the Real Currency
· 3 min · narrated
Interconnect and the Scale-Up Domain
· 3 min · narrated
Module review
Module 3
From Node to Cluster: Networking and Scale
Scale-Out Fabric and the Tyranny of Collectives
· 4 min · narrated
Goodput: Failure, Checkpointing, and Real Throughput
· 4 min · narrated
Module review
Module 4
The System as Product: Software and the Operator's View
The Software Stack That Makes Silicon Usable
· 4 min · narrated
Buying Systems, Not Chips: The Operator's View
· 4 min · narrated
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