US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 20 for "Hierarchical collective compute operations using DMA transfers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,777, issued on May 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hierarchical collective compute operations using DMA transfers" was invented by Yongseok Koh (San Jose, Calif.), Se Wang Oh (Campbell, Calif.) and Ron Diamant (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to perform hierarchical collective compute operations on a plurality of processing nodes for a distributed computation of a neural network. Each processing node can include a plurality of processing ranks that are assigned corresponding rank identifiers (IDs). The hierarchical collective compute operation can include direct mem...