US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 25 for "Task-centric job scheduling method and system for heterogeneous clusters" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,616, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Task-centric job scheduling method and system for heterogeneous clusters" was invented by Nicolas Weber (Heidelberg, Germany), Daniel Thuerck (Heidelberg, Germany) and Simon Kuenzer (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented scheduling method for accelerator hardware includes using a computational graph that splits jobs to be executed by the accelerator hardware into atomic compute tasks, using a scheduler to individually schedule and/or migrate each task for execution to different machines and/or accelerators at job runtime, and using a compu...