US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 17 for "Techniques for balancing workloads when parallelizing multiply-accumulate computations" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,003, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for balancing workloads when parallelizing multiply-accumulate computations" was invented by Duane George Merrill III (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a dispatch application performs multiply-accumulate ("MAC") computations across parallel processing elements. In operation, the dispatch application determines a first quantity of iterations associated with a given MAC computation. The dispatch application determines a maximum number of tasks that can execute concurrently across a set of parallel process...