US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 13 for "Effective and scalable building and probing of hash tables using multiple GPUs" (Delaware, Pennsylvania, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,454, issued on May 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Effective and scalable building and probing of hash tables using multiple GPUs" was invented by Tim Kaldewey (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.), Jiri Johannes Kraus (Bonn, Del.) and Nikolay Sakharnykh (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described approaches provide for effectively and scalably using multiple GPUs to build and probe hash tables and materialize results of probes. Random memory accesses by the GPUs to build and/or probe a hash table may be distributed across GPUs and executed concurrently using global location identifiers. A global location identifier may b...