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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abdulkadir Utku Diril, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Olivia Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Krishnakumar Narayanan Nair, Newark, CA (US);
Aravind Kalaiah, San Jose, CA (US);
Anup Ramesh Kadkol, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pankaj Kansal, Fremont, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a processor and a plurality of memory units. The processor is coupled to each of the plurality of memory units by a plurality of network connections. The processor includes a plurality of processing elements arranged in a two-dimensional array and a corresponding two-dimensional communication network communicatively connecting each of the plurality of processing elements to other processing elements on same axes of the two-dimensional array. Each processing element that is located along a diagonal of the two-dimensional array is configured as a request broadcasting master for a respective group of processing elements located along a same axis of the two-dimensional array.