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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2019
Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yakun Shao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rangharajan Venkatesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Miaorong Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Smith, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William James Dally, Incline Village, NV (US);
Joel Emer, Acton, MA (US);
Stephen W. Keckler, Austin, TX (US);
Brucek Khailany, Austin, TX (US);
NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed deep neural net (DNN) utilizing a distributed, tile-based architecture includes multiple chips, each with a central processing element, a global memory buffer, and a plurality of additional processing elements. Each additional processing element includes a weight buffer, an activation buffer, and vector multiply-accumulate units to combine, in parallel, the weight values and the activation values using stationary data flows.