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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2018
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Patrick D.M. Siegl, White Plains, NY (US);
Fabio Checconi, Peekskill, NY (US);
Daniele Buono, Warrington, GB;
Alessandro Morari, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06N 3/063 (2006.01); H04L 12/42 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5061 (2013.01); G06F 9/38 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06N 3/063 (2013.01); H04L 12/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
A plurality of hardware accelerators are interconnected and include a special processing unit and accelerator memory. At least one host computer is coupled to each of the plurality of hardware accelerators and includes a general processing unit and host memory. The plurality of hardware accelerators exchange data in a ring communication pattern in computing a linear layer of a neural network.