ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,860, issued on March 4, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Reset of a multi-node system" was invented by Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Bjorn Dag Johnsen (Oslo, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of the nodes stores a number, referred to herein as a generation number, which is updated whenever the respective node undergoes a reset and restart from checkpoint. Since the nodes of the system participate in the same reset event, at most times, each generation number held by a node will be the same across the system. However, in some cases, when one node resets before another node,...