Patents by Inventor James Warren Dieffenderfer

James Warren Dieffenderfer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5717943
    Abstract: A computer system having a plurality of processors and memory including a plurality of scalable nodes having multiple like processor memory elements. Each of the processor memory elements has a plurality of communication paths for communication within a node to other like processor memory elements within the node. Each of the processor memory elements also has a communication path for communication external to the node to another like scalable node of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Norman Barker, Clive Allan Collins, Michael Charles Dapp, James Warren Dieffenderfer, Donald George Grice, Peter Michael Kogge, David Christopher Kuchinski, Billy Jack Knowles, Donald Michael Lesmeister, Richard Ernest Miles, Richard Edward Nier, Eric Eugene Retter, Robert Reist Richardson, David Bruce Rolfe, Nicholas Jerome Schoonover, Vincent John Smoral, James Robert Stupp, Paul Amba Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 5717944
    Abstract: A parallel array processor for massively parallel applications is formed with low power CMOS with DRAM processing while incorporating processing elements on a single chip. Eight processors on a single chip have their own associated processing element, significant memory, and I/O and are interconnected with a hypercube based, but modified, topology. These nodes are then interconnected, either by a hypercube, modified hypercube, ring, or ring within ring network topology. Conventional microprocessor MMPs consume pins and time going to memory. The new architecture merges processor and memory with multiple PMEs (eight 16 bit processors with 32K and I/O) in DRAM and has no memory access delays and uses all the pins for networking. The chip can be a single node of a fine-grained parallel processor. Each chip will have eight 16 bit processors, each processor providing 5 MIPs performance. I/O has three internal ports and one external port shared by the plural processors on the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Amba Wilkinson, James Warren Dieffenderfer, Peter Michael Kogge, Nicholas Jerome Schoonover
  • Patent number: 5713037
    Abstract: A parallel array processor for massively parallel applications is formed with low power CMOS with DRAM processing while incorporating processing elements on a single chip. Eight processors on a single chip have their own associated processing element, significant memory, and I/O and are interconnected with a hypercube based, but modified, topology. These nodes are then interconnected, either by a hypercube, modified hypercube, ring, or ring within ring network topology. Conventional microprocessor MMPs consume pins and time going to memory. The new architecture merges processor and memory with multiple PMEs (eight 16 bit processors with 32K and I/O) in DRAM and has no memory access delays and uses all the pins for networking. The chip can be a single node of a fine-grained parallel processor. Each chip will have eight 16 bit processors, each processor providing 5 MIPs performance. I/O has three internal ports and one external port shared by the plural processors on the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Amba Wilkinson, James Warren Dieffenderfer, Peter Michael Kogge, Nicholas Jerome Schoonover
  • Patent number: 5710935
    Abstract: A computer system having a plurality of processors and memory including a plurality of scalable nodes having multiple like processor memory elements. Each of the processor memory elements has a plurality of communication paths for communication within a node to other like processor memory elements within the node. Each of the processor memory elements also has a communication path for communication external to the node to another like scalable node of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Norman Barker, Clive Allan Collins, Michael Charles Dapp, James Warren Dieffenderfer, Donald George Grice, Peter Michael Kogge, David Christopher Kuchinski, Billy Jack Knowles, Donald Michael Lesmeister, Richard Ernest Miles, Richard Edward Nier, Eric Eugene Retter, Robert Reist Richardson, David Bruce Rolfe, Nicholas Jerome Schoonover, Vincent John Smoral, James Robert Stupp, Paul Amba Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 5708836
    Abstract: A parallel array processor for massively parallel applications is formed with low power CMOS with DRAM processing while incorporating processing elements on a single chip. Eight processors on a single chip have their own associated processing element, significant memory, and I/O and are interconnected with a hypercube based, but modified, topology. These nodes are then interconnected, either by a hypercube, modified hypercube, ring, or ring within ring network topology. Conventional microprocessor MMPs consume pins and time going to memory. The new architecture merges processor and memory with multiple PMEs (eight 16 bit processors with 32K and I/O) in DRAM and has no memory access delays and uses all the pins for networking. The chip can be a single node of a fine-grained parallel processor. Each chip will have eight 16 bit processors, each processor providing 5 MIPs performance. I/O has three internal ports and one external port shared by the plural processors on the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Amba Wilkinson, James Warren Dieffenderfer, Peter Michael Kogge, Nicholas Jerome Schoonover