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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2021
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ati Technologies Ulc, Markham, CA;
Jimshed Mirza, Markham, CA;
Mark Fowler, Boxborough, MA (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC, Markham, CA;
Abstract
Cascading execution of atomic operations, including: receiving a request for each thread of a plurality of threads to perform an atomic operation, wherein the plurality of threads comprises a plurality of thread subsets each corresponding to a local memory, wherein the local memory for a thread subset is accessible by the thread subset and inaccessible to a remainder of threads in the plurality of threads; generating a plurality of intermediate results by performing, by each thread subset, the atomic operation in the local memory corresponding to the thread subset; and generating a result for the request by aggregating the plurality of intermediate results in a shared memory accessible to all threads in the plurality of threads.