ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,804, issued on July 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Data dependency-aware scheduling" was invented by Harris Gasparakis (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system flexibly schedules workgroups across kernels based on data dependencies between workgroups to enhance processing efficiency. The workgroups are partitioned into subsets based on the data dependencies and workgroups of a first subset that produces data are scheduled to execute immediately before workgroups of a second subset that consumes the data generated by the first subset. Thus, the processing system d...