US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on Oct. 27 for "Hierarchical work scheduling" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,490, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hierarchical work scheduling" was invented by Matthaeus G. Chajdas (Munich), Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.), Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.), Robert W. Martin (Acton, Mass.) and Nicolai Haehnle (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hierarchical work scheduling includes consuming a work item at a first scheduling domain having a local scheduler circuit and one or more workgroup processing elements. Consuming the work item produces a set of new work items. Subsequently, the local scheduler circuit distributes at least on...