What the cards cover#
Every backend feature has a card row, a profile stage, or a reason it has none. Nothing outside this table is measured, and nothing in it is measured twice.
Cards. C1 is the ensemble card: an adaptive RKF7(8) Kepler integration, with its arms and cells. C2 is the feature card: one
row per capability, at one batch size, each arm against a baseline. The profile stages (P1 to P5) are the launch-form sweep and
the per-kernel profiles in benchmarks/reproduce.
group |
item |
covered by |
reason |
|---|---|---|---|
lowering |
per-sample thread form |
C2 |
the default form |
lowering |
warp-team form, chosen by lane count |
C2 |
the 0.7.3 change |
lowering |
staged wide outputs, team form in stepped kernels |
C2 |
one row per form, one per stepped use |
lowering |
host interchange and wide carries |
C2 |
the same kernels on the host target |
lowering |
emit form, auto or static |
covered by |
auto is what every row builds, so a static arm adds no claim |
lowering |
team linear algebra to 4096, one-thread form below 32 |
C2 |
both forms, and both precisions on the lane form |
lowering |
thread box, contraction route |
C2 |
the row is the sweep shape |
lowering |
fused |
C2 |
one kernel body, every K path |
lowering |
complex pairs, rays, pair lane |
no timing row |
library forms, shown by the docs notebooks, no speed claim |
lowering |
local-memory limit at build |
no timing row |
a build gate, not a measurement |
launch |
graph capture and replay |
C1 arm |
the plain device loop |
launch |
persistent launch, chunk, geometry |
C1 arm |
the mechanism behind the headline |
launch |
one-launch or automatic pick, |
C1 arm |
|
launch |
band, compaction, reorder |
C1 command-line arms; P2000-only profile stage |
pays only on small cards, so no committed cell |
launch |
device-aware launches |
covered by |
correctness is a test, speed is the multi-GPU row |
lanes |
lane sets, count between launches |
C2 |
dense, map and prefix arms |
reductions |
sums over samples, compensated, ordered or auto |
C2 |
against |
reductions |
keyed, ordered and OR scatter |
C2 |
one row, three policies |
reductions |
cells folded across ranks |
C2 |
the fold is part of the row’s graph |
control |
run-time trip count, break, jump, segmented units |
C2 |
one stepped body |
derivatives |
forward and reverse, through loops and lane sets |
C2 |
the recorded-loop path is what the automatic arm picks |
precision |
float32 and float64 |
C1 float32 cell; C2 |
both dtypes where it matters |
precision |
32-bit and 64-bit index |
covered by |
the row uses 32-bit indices |
host |
host and C targets, OpenMP GEMM |
C1 CPU card; C2 host arms |
the C target emits the same text, one-threaded |
host |
launch overhead at N=1, graph update |
no timing row |
a local gate, not a cloud row |
multi-GPU |
run follows the arrays’ GPU, ranks across GPUs |
C2 |
two GPUs against one, like for like per GPU |
graph steps |
batched FFT |
C2 |
against cuFFT |
graph steps |
GEMM through cuBLAS, opt-in |
C2 |
the opt-in route |
interop |
DLPack bridges, streams |
covered by C1 |
the eagle arms ingest CuPy-owned planes on the card’s stream; no timing claim |
compile |
build turnaround |
no timing row |
a local card, not a cloud row |