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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2022
Groq, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Dennis Charles Abts, Eau Claire, WI (US);
Jonathan Ross, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Garrin Kimmell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Bye, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Matthew Boyd, Gresham, OR (US);
Andrew Ling, Toronto, CA;
Groq, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system contains a network of processors arranged in a plurality of nodes. Each node comprises a respective plurality of processors connected via local links, and different nodes are connected via global links. The processors of the network communicate with each other to establish a global counter for the network, enabling deterministic communication between the processors of the network. A compiler is configured to explicitly schedule communication traffic across the global and local links of the network of processors based upon the deterministic links between the processors, which enable software-scheduled networking with explicit send or receive instructions executed by functional units of the processors at specific times, to establish a specific ordering of operations performed by the network of processors. In some embodiments, the processors of the network of processors are tensor streaming processors (TSPs).