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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2021
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ajay Sudarshan Tirumala, San Jose, CA (US);
Olivier Giroux, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Peter Nelson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary M. Tarolli, Hanalei, HI (US);
Ankita Upreti, Austin, TX (US);
Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Baden Wurttemberg, DE;
Divya Shanmughan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rishkul Kulkarni, Austin, TX (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments include a parallel processing computer system that enables parallel instances of a program to synchronize at disparate addresses in memory. When the parallel program instances need to exchange data, the program instances synchronize based on a mask that identifies the program instances that are synchronizing. As each program instance reaches the point of synchronization, the program instance blocks and waits for all other program instances to reach the point of synchronization. When all program instances have reached the point of synchronization, at least one program instance executes a synchronous operation to exchange data. The program instances then continue execution at respective and disparate return addresses.