US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on July 1 for "System and method for implementing a network-interface-based allreduce operation" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,274, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for implementing a network-interface-based allreduce operation" was invented by Keith D. Underwood (Fort Collins, Colo.), Robert L. Alverson (Seattle), Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain) and Nathan L. Wichmann (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a network interface to transmit and receive data packets over a network; a memory including one or more buffers; an arithmetic logic unit to perform arithmetic operations for organizing and combining the data packets; and...