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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Liana Liyow Fong, Irvington, NY (US);
Wei Tan, Elmsford, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A topology-aware parallel reduction method, system, and recording medium including obtaining the GPU connection topology of each of the plurality of GPUs as a connection tree, transforming the connection tree into a three layer tree comprising an intra-root tree, an intra-node tree, and an inter-node tree, evenly partitioning each entry on each of the GPUS, and selectively transferring data either in either direction or in each direction, simultaneously, along the evenly partitioned three layer tree using a full-duplex configuration of a PCIe bandwidth.