Quiz me — The ML Systems Stack

quiz

easy

6 questions · need 5/6 to pass.

Q1.Match each term to what it actually describes.

match

Match each item on the left to one on the right.

Arithmetic intensity

↔

Amdahl's Law

↔

CUDA Event

↔

Latency vs. throughput tradeoff

↔

Q2.A kernel is memory-bound. What does that mean?

single

Q3.Why does Adam roughly triple a model's memory footprint compared to plain SGD?

single

Q4.Select every resource a single training step can be bottlenecked on.

multi-select

Q5.The roofline model's 'ridge point' is the value of ______ at which the compute roof and the memory roof intersect.

fill in

Q6.Why does timing a GPU op with plain `time.time()` and no synchronization usually report a suspiciously tiny duration?

single