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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2020
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Yuanwei Fang, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tae Meon Bae, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sicheng Li, San Mateo, CA (US);
Minghai Qin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Guanlin Wu, San Mateo, CA (US);
Yen-kuang Chen, San Mateo, CA (US);
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for map reduce. In some embodiments, an exemplary processing unit includes: a 2-dimensional (2D) processing element (PE) array comprising a plurality of PEs, each PE comprising a first input and a second input, the first inputs of the PEs in a linear array in a first dimension of the PE array being connected in series and the second inputs of the PEs in a linear array in a second dimension of the PE array being connected in parallel, each PE being configured to perform an operation on data from the first input or second input; and a plurality of reduce tree units, each reduce tree unit being coupled with the PEs in a linear array in the first dimension or the second dimension of the PE array and configured to perform a first reduction operation.