US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 8 for "Cross GPU scheduling of dependent processes" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,183, issued on July 8, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cross GPU scheduling of dependent processes" was invented by Rex Eldon McCrary (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary processing unit includes queues configured to store commands prior to execution in corresponding pipelines. The primary processing unit also includes a first table configured to store entries indicating dependencies between commands that are to be executed on different ones of a plurality of processing units that include the primary processing unit and one or more secondary processing units. The primary processin...