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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Costas Bekas, Horgen, CH;
Alessandro Curioni, Gattikon, CH;
Heiner Giefers, Langnau am Albis, CH;
Christoph Hagleitner, Wallisellen, CH;
Raphael C. Polig, Dietikon, CH;
Peter W. J. Staar, Zurich, CH;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for performing sparse matrix dense matrix (SpMM) multiplication on a single field programmable gate array (FPGA) module comprising a k-stage pipeline is described. The method may include interleaving k-stage threads on the k-stage pipeline comprising a plurality of threads tto t, wherein a first result of thread tis ready one cycle after the first input of thread tis fed into the pipeline, and outputting a result matrix Y.