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📚 BLAS 101 — Stop Hand-Rolling

What BLAS is, cuBLAS + MPS cheat sheets, calling BLAS from Python, precision playbook

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01What does BLAS stand for, and when was it specified?
Hint
It's older than most of us.
02cuBLAS defaults to which memory layout?
Hint
Same answer as Track 3's 'why does cuBLAS default to column-major' question.
03What is the primary advantage of calling cuBLAS instead of writing your own GEMM?
Hint
Forty engineer-years vs your one engineer-month.
04What does MPSMatrixMultiplication provide?
Hint
Apple's GEMM library equivalent to cuBLAS.
05Why does serving a 70B model fit on a Mac Studio that an RTX 4090 can't?
Hint
Look at the precision footprint table.
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