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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventor:
Arup De, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 13/4234 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system is described that includes a data bus communicatively coupled to a host processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), and a data storage unit. The GPU is configured to receive instructions from the host processor to perform direct communication over the data bus with the data storage unit. Responsive to receiving instructions to communicate directly with the data storage unit, the GPU will initiate a direct communication channel over the data bus. Once established, a direct communications channel allows the data storage unit and the GPU to directly exchange information and bypass the host CPU and system memory.