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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2019
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jorge Albericio Latorre, San Jose, CA (US);
Jack H. Choquette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manan Maheshkumar Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Pool, Durham, NC (US);
Ming Y. Siu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ronny Meir Krashinsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ganesh Venkatesh, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Compressed data is oftentimes beneficial for reducing the computing resources required, for example, to transmit and store data. The compression of data is particularly useful when dealing with sparse data (data that includes numerous zeros or near-zero values) and only non-zero values above a certain threshold have significance. When dealing with compressed data, oftentimes the data needs to be decompressed for processing (e.g., by deep learning networks or other applications configured to operate on sparse, or other uncompressed data). Instructions are disclosed for supporting the decompression of compressed data by a processing unit such as a CPU and GPU.