Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device and method for accelerating matrix multiply operations as a sum of outer products
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Application No.: US16176678Application Date: 2018-10-31
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Publication No.: US10902087B2Publication Date: 2021-01-26
- Inventor: Shaizeen Aga , Nuwan Jayasena , Allen H. Rush , Michael Ignatowski
- Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Volpe Koenig
- Main IPC: G06F17/16
- IPC: G06F17/16 ; G06F15/80 ; G06F7/53

Abstract:
A processing device is provided which includes memory and a processor comprising a plurality of processor cores in communication with each other via first and second hierarchical communication links. Each processor core in a group of the processor cores is in communication with each other via the first hierarchical communication links. Each processor core is configured to store, in the memory, one of a plurality of sub-portions of data of a first matrix, store, in the memory, one of a plurality of sub-portions of data of a second matrix, determine an outer product of the sub-portion of data of the first matrix and the sub-portion of data of the second matrix, receive, from another processor core of the group of processor cores, another sub-portion of data of the second matrix and determine another outer product of the sub-portion of data of the first matrix and the other sub-portion of data of the second matrix.
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