Patents by Inventor KERMIN E. FLEMING

KERMIN E. FLEMING 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: 11593295
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to operations in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a first processing element that includes a configuration register within the first processing element to store a configuration value that causes the first processing element to perform an operation according to the configuration value, a plurality of input queues, an input controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of input queues according to the configuration value, a plurality of output queues, and an output controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of output queues according to the configuration value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Jr., Simon C. Steely, Jr., Kent D. Glossop, Mitchell Diamond, Benjamin Keen, Dennis Bradford, Fabrizio Petrini, Barry Tannenbaum, Yongzhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11307873
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to unstructured data flow in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a data path having a first branch and a second branch, and the data path comprises at least one processing element; a switch circuit comprising a switch control input to receive a first switch control value to couple an input of the switch circuit to the first branch and a second switch control value to couple the input of the switch circuit to the second branch; a pick circuit comprising a pick control input to receive a first pick control value to couple an output of the pick circuit to the first branch and a second pick control value to couple the output of the pick circuit to a third branch of the data path; a predicate propagation processing element to output a first edge predicate value and a second edge predicate value based on (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Pablo Halpern, Kermin E. Fleming, James Sukha
  • Publication number: 20220107911
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to operations in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a first processing element that includes a configuration register within the first processing element to store a configuration value that causes the first processing element to perform an operation according to the configuration value, a plurality of input queues, an input controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of input queues according to the configuration value, a plurality of output queues, and an output controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of output queues according to the configuration value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kermin E. FLEMING, Simon C. STEELY, Kent D. GLOSSOP, Mitchell DIAMOND, Benjamin KEEN, Dennis BRADFORD, Fabrizio Petrini, Barry TANNENBAUM, Yongzhi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11200186
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to operations in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a first processing element that includes a configuration register within the first processing element to store a configuration value that causes the first processing element to perform an operation according to the configuration value, a plurality of input queues, an input controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of input queues according to the configuration value, a plurality of output queues, and an output controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of output queues according to the configuration value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Jr., Simon C. Steely, Jr., Kent D. Glossop, Mitchell Diamond, Benjamin Keen, Dennis Bradford, Fabrizio Petrini, Barry Tannenbaum, Yongzhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10891240
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to low latency communications in a configurable spatial accelerator are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Suresh Mathew, Mitchell Diamond, Kermin E. Fleming, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10853073
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to conditional operations in a configurable spatial accelerator are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Jr., Ping Zou, Mitchell Diamond, Benjamin Keen
  • Patent number: 10565134
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to multicast in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, an accelerator includes a first output buffer of a first processing element coupled to a first input buffer of a second processing element and a second input buffer of a third processing element; and the first processing element determines that it was able to complete a transmission in a previous cycle when the first processing element observed for both the second processing element and the third processing element that either a speculation value was set to a value to indicate a dataflow token was stored in its input buffer (e.g., as indicated by a reception value (e.g., bit)) or a backpressure value was set to a value to indicate that storage is to be available in its input buffer before dequeuing the dataflow token from the first output buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Jr., Ping Zou, Mitchell Diamond
  • Patent number: 10564980
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to conditional queues in a configurable spatial accelerator are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Jr., Ping Zou, Mitchell Diamond, Benjamin Keen
  • Patent number: 10558575
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a core with a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction and an execution unit to execute the decoded instruction to perform a first operation; a plurality of processing elements; and an interconnect network between the plurality of processing elements to receive an input of a dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein the dataflow graph is to be overlaid into the interconnect network and the plurality of processing elements with each node represented as a dataflow operator in the plurality of processing elements, and the plurality of processing elements is to perform a second operation when an incoming operand set arrives at the plurality of processing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Jr., Kent D. Glossop, Simon C. Steely, Jr., Jinjie Tang, Alan G. Gara
  • Publication number: 20200004690
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to low latency communications in a configurable spatial accelerator are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Suresh MATHEW, Mitchell DIAMOND, Kermin E. FLEMING, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200004538
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to conditional operations in a configurable spatial accelerator are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kermin E. FLEMING, JR., Ping ZOU, Mitchell DIAMOND, Benjamin KEEN
  • Patent number: 10515049
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to distributed memory hazard detection and error recovery are described. In one embodiment, a memory circuit includes a memory interface circuit to service memory requests from a spatial array of processing elements for data stored in a plurality of cache banks; and a hazard detection circuit in each of the plurality of cache banks, wherein a first hazard detection circuit for a speculative memory load request from the memory interface circuit, that is marked with a potential dynamic data dependency, to an address within a first cache bank of the first hazard detection circuit, is to mark the address for tracking of other memory requests to the address, store data from the address in speculative completion storage, and send the data from the speculative completion storage to the spatial array of processing elements when a memory dependency token is received for the speculative memory load request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: intel corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Simon C. Steely, Kent D. Glossop
  • Patent number: 10459866
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to integrated control and data processing in a configurable spatial accelerator are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Jr., Mitchell Diamond, Ping Zou, Benjamin Keen
  • Patent number: 10445250
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a core with a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction and an execution unit to execute the decoded instruction to perform a first operation; a plurality of processing elements; and an interconnect network between the plurality of processing elements to receive an input of a dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein the dataflow graph is to be overlaid into the interconnect network and the plurality of processing elements with each node represented as a dataflow operator in the plurality of processing elements, and the plurality of processing elements are to perform a second operation by a respective, incoming operand set arriving at each of the dataflow operators of the plurality of processing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Kent D. Glossop, Simon C. Steely
  • Patent number: 10445098
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to privileged configuration in spatial arrays are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes processing elements; an interconnect network between the processing elements; and a configuration controller coupled to a first subset and a second, different subset of the plurality of processing elements, the first subset having an output coupled to an input of the second, different subset, wherein the configuration controller is to configure the interconnect network between the first subset and the second, different subset of the plurality of processing elements to not allow communication on the interconnect network between the first subset and the second, different subset when a privilege bit is set to a first value and to allow communication on the interconnect network between the first subset and the second, different subset of the plurality of processing elements when the privilege bit is set to a second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Simon C. Steely, Kent D. Glossop
  • Publication number: 20190303297
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to remote memory access in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a first memory interface circuit coupled to a first processing element and a cache, the first memory interface circuit to issue a memory request to the cache, the memory request comprising a field to identify a second memory interface circuit as a receiver of data for the memory request; and the second memory interface circuit coupled to a second processing element and the cache, the second memory interface circuit to send a credit return value to the first memory interface circuit, to cause the first memory interface circuit to mark the memory request as complete, when the data for the memory request arrives at the second memory interface circuit and a completion configuration register of the second memory interface circuit is set to a remote response value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: KERMIN E. FLEMING, JR., SIMON C. STEELY, JR., KENT D. GLOSSOP
  • Publication number: 20190303168
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to conditional queues in a configurable spatial accelerator are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, JR., Ping Zou, Mitchell Diamond, Benjamin Keen
  • Publication number: 20190303153
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to unstructured data flow in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a data path having a first branch and a second branch, and the data path comprising at least one processing element; a switch circuit comprising a switch control input to receive a first switch control value to couple an input of the switch circuit to the first branch and a second switch control value to couple the input of the switch circuit to the second branch; a pick circuit comprising a pick control input to receive a first pick control value to couple an output of the pick circuit to the first branch and a second pick control value to couple the output of the pick circuit to a third branch of the data path; a predicate propagation processing element to output a first edge predicate value and a second edge predicate value based on (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: PABLO HALPERN, KERMIN E. FLEMING, JAMES SUKHA
  • Publication number: 20190303263
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to integrated performance monitoring in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a first performance monitoring circuit coupled to a first proper subset of processing elements by a network to receive at least one monitoring value from each of the first plurality of the processing elements, generate a first aggregated monitoring value based on the at least one monitoring value from each of the first plurality of the processing elements, and send the first aggregated monitoring value to a performance manager circuit on a different network when a first threshold value is exceeded by the first aggregated monitoring value; and the performance manager circuit is to perform an action based on the first aggregated monitoring value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: KERMIN E. FLEMING, JR., SIMON C. STEELY, JR., JINJIE TANG
  • Patent number: 10417175
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to consistency in an accelerator are described. In one embodiment, request address file (RAF) circuits are coupled to a spatial array by a first network, a memory is coupled to the RAF circuits by a second network, a RAF circuit is to not issue, into the second network, a request to the memory marked with a program order dependency on a previous request until receiving a first token generated by completion of the previous request to the memory by another RAF circuit, and a second RAF circuit is to not issue, into the second network, a second request to the memory marked with a program order dependency on a first request until receiving a second token sent by a first RAF circuit when a predetermined time period has lapsed since the first request was issued by the first RAF circuit into the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kermin E. Fleming, Simon C. Steely, Jr., Kent D. Glossop