ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,100, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Shared memory parallel execution of neural networks" was invented by Hongbin Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Ilya Minkin (Los Altos, Calif.) and Mohammad El-Shabani (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to improve memory utilization for performing a collective compute operation may include allocating an amount of space in a shared memory of a processing node that is part of an integrated circuit device having multiple processing nodes. A number of sharded portions of parameters are obtained and stored in the shared memory. Each of the sha...