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Re:Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal by colanderman on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:08PM (#26556671)
Snark aside, GP is asking about GPUs. GPUs are not nondeterministic Turing machines.
Re:Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal by anon_tor_12345 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:21PM (#26556811)
like the other comment alludes to it's not constant it's a function of block size and the size of the matrices

http://www.ijcee.org/vol9/949-E1621.pdf

you edited your comment. it said what's the speed up on GPUs (which i provided).

>GPUs are not nondeterministic Turing machines

for small problem size that's exactly what they are (or any multicore cpu for that matter)

>The other is to imagine that the machine "branches" into many copies, each of which follows one of the possible transitions. Whereas a DTM has a single "computation path" that it follows, an NTM has a "computation tree".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_Turing_machin...

Re:Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal by tsimionescu on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:48PM (#26560218)
An NTM is one which can run arbitrarily many branches in parallel. So parallel processors are not NTMs, since they can only run a fixed number of branches in parallel.

It's true that for small problems they are indistinguishable, but in the context of discussing big O notation that is irrelevant.

For the purposes of computing asymptotic time complexity, whether the algorithm is run on a 1 core system or an M core system is usually irrelevant.

Re:Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal by colanderman on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:59PM (#26557253)
> for small problem size that's exactly what they are

O notation does not apply to small problems. It is strictly concerned with asymptotic behavior.

Re:Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal by anon_tor_12345 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:14PM (#26557410)
you're completely missing the point (again). the point is that complexities (even asymptotic) of sequential algorithms don't apply to parallelizations of those algorithms.
Re:Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal by aquadrop on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @06:39AM (#26565508)
Only for infinite number of parallelized processors?