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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Chad Balling McBride, North Bend, WA (US);
Timothy Hume Heil, Kirkland, WA (US);
Amol Ashok Ambardekar, Redmond, WA (US);
George Petre, Redmond, WA (US);
Kent D. Cedola, Bellevue, WA (US);
Larry Marvin Wall, Seattle, WA (US);
Boris Bobrov, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary computing environment having a DNN module can maintain one or more bandwidth throttling mechanisms. Illustratively, a first throttling mechanism can specify the number of cycles to wait between transactions on a cooperating fabric component (e.g., data bus). Illustratively, a second throttling mechanism can be a transaction count limiter that operatively sets a threshold of a number of transactions to be processed during a given transaction sequence and limits the number of transactions such as multiple transactions in flight to not exceed the set threshold. In an illustrative operation, in executing these two exemplary calculated throttling parameters, the average bandwidth usage and the peak bandwidth usage can be limited. Operatively, with this fabric bandwidth control, the processing units of the DNN are optimized to process data across each transaction cycle resulting in enhanced processing and lower power consumption.