US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Efficient data layout and alignment for wide-vector accelerator systems" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,056, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Efficient data layout and alignment for wide-vector accelerator systems" was invented by Shubham Jain (Elmsford, N.Y.), Geoffrey Burr (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yasuteru Kohda (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient data layout and alignment techniques for effectively executing AI workloads in wide-vector accelerator systems are provided. In one aspect, a method for processing AI workloads includes: logically dividing a data vector into a hierarchy of segments and sub-segments with each of the segments including more than one o...