Catalog · Chips & Density

From Silicon to System

What’s inside

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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
   • Module review