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Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Swagath Venkataramani, White Plains, NY (US);

Sanchari Sen, West Lafayette, IN (US);

Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, New York, NY (US);

Ankur Agrawal, Chappaqua, NY (US);

Sunil K Shukla, Scarsdale, NY (US);

Bruce Fleischer, Bedford Hills, NY (US);

Kailash Gopalakrishnan, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 7/50 (2006.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01); G06F 7/523 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/8046 (2013.01); G06F 7/50 (2013.01); G06F 7/523 (2013.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06F 9/3001 (2013.01); G06F 9/30069 (2013.01);
Abstract

A systolic array can be configured to skip distributed operands that have zero-values, resulting in improved resource efficiency. A skip module is introduced to receive operands from memory, identify whether they have a zero value or not, and, if they are nonzero, generate an operand vector including an index before sending the operand vector to a processing element.


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