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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2019
Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yakun Shao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rangharajan Venkatesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Nan Jiang, St. Louis, MO (US);
Brian Matthew Zimmer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jason Clemons, Leander, TX (US);
Nathaniel Pinckney, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Matthew R Fojtik, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
William James Dally, Incline Village, NV (US);
Joel S. 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 implemented on a semiconductor package. The package includes multiple chips, each with a central processing element, a global memory buffer, and processing elements. Each processing element includes a weight buffer, an activation buffer, and multiply-accumulate units to combine, in parallel, the weight values and the activation values.