US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 16 for "Mechanism for performing distributed power management of a multi-GPU system by powering down links based on previously detected idle conditions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,962, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Mechanism for performing distributed power management of a multi-GPU system by powering down links based on previously detected idle conditions" was invented by Benjamin Tsien (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for efficient power management of a multi-node computing system are disclosed. A computing system includes multiple nodes that receive tasks to process. The nodes include a processor, local memory, a power controller, and multiple link interfaces for transferring messages with other n...