Bad Apple running on a Trainium chip: real kernel instruction trace executes every frame
daniel_c0deb0t · x · 2026-09-05
The author shared a real profiling trace of instructions and DMAs in a kernel running on an AWS Trainium NeuronCore: one engine emits a steady stream of instructions that other engines use like a clock, and the kernel "executes" all frames of Bad Apple one after another.
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