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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2020
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Richard John Heaton, San Jose, CA (US);
Ron Diamant, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An acceleration engine with multiple accelerators may share a common set of data that is used by each accelerator to perform computations on input data. The set of shared data can be loaded into the acceleration engine from an external memory. Instead of accessing the external memory multiple times to load the set of shared data into each accelerator, the external memory can be accessed once using direct memory access to load the set of shared data into the first accelerator. The set of shared data can then be serially loaded from one accelerator to the next accelerator in the acceleration engine using direct memory access. To achieve data parallelism and reduce computation time, a runtime driver may split the input data into data batches, and each accelerator can perform computations on a different batch of input data with the common set of shared data.