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Re:Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors by kristianp on Saturday July 20, 2019 @08:25PM (#20489170)
What does the "int8/32" mean in that paper?
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Re:Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors by msclrhd on Sunday July 21, 2019 @04:34AM (#20490480)
4x8-bit values in a 32-bit value? SIMD does this to perform an operation on 4 8-bit values in a single 32-bit register. There are other configurations, IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD#Software

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Re:Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors by hedgehog on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:10PM (#20489335)
In that context it's likely 8 bit operands and a 32 bit accumulator.
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