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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul A. Tucker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sanjay Ghemawat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yuan Yu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.