US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Sept. 30 for "Hierarchical task scheduling for accelerators" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,166, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Hierarchical task scheduling for accelerators" was invented by Narasinga Rao Miniskar (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Frank Y. Liu (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Aaron R. Young (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Jeffrey S. Vetter (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Dwaipayan Chakraborty (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed for scheduling tasks in a heterogeneous computing environment. Coarse scheduling of a received task-set is performed centrally, with tasks dispatched to respective processing resources including one or more accelerators. At each accelerator...