ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,547, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).
"Multi-address space collectives engine" was invented by Benjamin Wong (Markham, Canada) and Philip Ng (Markham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a collectives engine that can offload collectives communications of multiple nodes and perform collective operations. The collectives engine can manage a direct mapping scheme of local memories of the nodes for access by the collectives engine. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed."
The patent was filed on Sept. 29, 2023, under Applica...