US Patent Issued to Google on June 24 for "Topological scheduling" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,767, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Topological scheduling" was invented by Lukasz Lew (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing topological scheduling on a machine-learning accelerator having an array of tiles. One of the methods includes performing, at each time step of a plurality of time steps corresponding respectively to columns within each of a plurality of wide columns of the tile array, operations comprising: performing respective multiplications using tiles in a resp...