ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,752, issued on July 1, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Efficient multi-device synchronization barriers using multicasting" was invented by Glenn Alan Dearth (Groton, Mass.), Mark Hummel (Franklin, Mass.) and Daniel Joseph Lustig (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a single notification (e.g., a request for a memory access operation) that a processing element (PE) has reached a synchronization barrier may be propagated to multiple physical addresses (PAs) and/or devices associated with multiple processing elements. Thus, the notification may allow an indication that the processing...