Chasing Peak FLOPS: How MATMUL Algorithms Co-Evolved with GPU Architecture

​In this talk, Prashant will explain how matrix multiplication (GEMM) dominates deep learning and co-evolved with GPU architectures from Volta to Blackwell, covering tiling, tensor cores, and advanced techniques such as warp specialisation, persistent kernels, and async pipelines to maximise FLOPS and hardware utilisation.

​He'll walk us through the core machinery: how tiling strategies decompose massive matrix problems into cache-friendly chunks, how tensor cores moved matrix math from scalar ALUs into dedicated fixed-function units, and how the programming model evolved to keep these units fed.

​About the speaker:
Prashant Kumar is an MTS at Cohere, working on pretraining large models - scaling them across GPUs.

​LinkedIn: /prashantkumar25

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​Pre-read: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcspring23-s51413/

​Look forward to seeing you!