US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Scheduling of a plurality of graphic processing units" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,168, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Scheduling of a plurality of graphic processing units" was invented by Qingcha Chen (Redmond, Wash.) and Wenjin Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for scheduling a plurality of available graphics processing units (GPUs). Multiple GPU pools may be set, wherein each GPU pool is configured to serve one or more jobs requiring the same number of GPUs. Available GPUs may be assigned to each GPU pool. A job and job information related to the job may be received, wherein the jo...