Epoch references this Colab notebook for that 2.1e25 FLOP figure, which estimates 40% hardware utilization rate (“the rest of the time is overhead, idle time spent waiting for data from another calculation/memory, or recomputing results just in time to reduce memory bottlenecks”). Adjusting for that puts Inflection’s current compute at 1.7e18 FLOP/s, closer to your third estimate.
2.1e25 FLOPs figure … that puts Inflection’s current compute at 1.7e18 FLOPs
This unit ambiguity is somewhat popular but trivial to avoid. Should be “2.1e25 FLOP” (without an ‘s’) and “1.7e18 FLOP/s” or “1.7e18 FLOPS” (with ‘s’ in uppercase).
Epoch references this Colab notebook for that 2.1e25 FLOP figure, which estimates 40% hardware utilization rate (“the rest of the time is overhead, idle time spent waiting for data from another calculation/memory, or recomputing results just in time to reduce memory bottlenecks”). Adjusting for that puts Inflection’s current compute at 1.7e18 FLOP/s, closer to your third estimate.
This unit ambiguity is somewhat popular but trivial to avoid. Should be “2.1e25 FLOP” (without an ‘s’) and “1.7e18 FLOP/s” or “1.7e18 FLOPS” (with ‘s’ in uppercase).
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