US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 28 for "Efficient matrix multiply and add with a group of warps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,857, issued on July 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient matrix multiply and add with a group of warps" was invented by Jack Choquette (Santa Clara, Calif.), Manan Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Maciej Tyrlik (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ronny Krashinsky (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes techniques for implementing matrix multiply and add (MMA) operations in graphics processing units (GPU)s and other processors. The implementations provide for a plurality of warps of threads to collaborate in generating the result matrix by enabling each thread to share its respe...