US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 2 for "Dynamic accounting of cache for GPU scratch memory usage" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,930, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic accounting of cache for GPU scratch memory usage" was invented by Nicolai Haehnle (Munich) and Michael John Bedy (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for efficiently scheduling wavefronts for execution on an integrated circuit. In various implementations, a computing system includes a parallel data processing circuit with multiple, replicated compute circuits. Each compute circuit executes one or more wavefronts. Each compute circuit includes a cache configured to store temporary data that cannot fit in t...