Patents by Inventor Arthur Hunter, JR.

Arthur Hunter, JR. 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: 11892950
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to data prefetching for graphics data processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including one or more graphics processing units (GPUs); and a plurality of caches to provide storage for the one or more GPUs, the plurality of caches including at least an L1 cache and an L3 cache, wherein the apparatus to provide intelligent prefetching of data by a prefetcher of a first GPU of the one or more GPUs including measuring a hit rate for the L1 cache; upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is equal to or greater than a threshold value, limiting a prefetch of data to storage in the L3 cache, and upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is less than a threshold value, allowing the prefetch of data to the L1 cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vikranth Vemulapalli, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Mike MacPherson, Aravindh Anantaraman, Ben Ashbaugh, Murali Ramadoss, William B. Sadler, Jonathan Pearce, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Jr., Prasoonkumar Surti, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Altug Koker, Sungye Kim, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Valentin Andrei
  • Publication number: 20230351543
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include, software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. Embodiment described herein provided techniques to detect zero value elements within a vector or a set of packed data elements output by a processing resource and generate metadata to indicate a location of the zero value elements within the plurality of data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Scott Janus, Varghese George, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Altug Koker, Abhishek Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vasanth Ranganathan, Valentin Andrei, Ashutosh Garg, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter, JR., SungYe Kim, Mike Macpherson, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, William Sadler, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Patent number: 11676239
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include, software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. Embodiment described herein provided techniques to skip computational operations for zero filled matrices and sub-matrices. Embodiments additionally provide techniques to maintain data compression through to a processing unit. Embodiments additionally provide an architecture for a sparse aware logic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Scott Janus, Varghese George, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Altug Koker, Abhishek Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vasanth Ranganathan, Andrei Valentin, Ashutosh Garg, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter, Jr., SungYe Kim, Mike Macpherson, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, William Sadler, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Patent number: 11620256
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving cache efficiency and utilization are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes processing resources to perform graphics operations and a cache controller of a cache coupled to the processing resources. The cache controller is configured to control cache priority by determining whether default settings or an instruction will control cache operations for the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Ben Ashbaugh, Jonathan Pearce, Abhishek Appu, Vasanth Ranganathan, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter, Jr., Brent Insko, Scott Janus, Pattabhiraman K, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Marian Alin Petre, Murali Ramadoss, Shailesh Shah, Kamal Sinha, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Publication number: 20230051190
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to data prefetching for graphics data processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including one or more graphics processing units (GPUs); and a plurality of caches to provide storage for the one or more GPUs, the plurality of caches including at least an L1 cache and an L3 cache, wherein the apparatus to provide intelligent prefetching of data by a prefetcher of a first GPU of the one or more GPUs including measuring a hit rate for the L1 cache; upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is equal to or greater than a threshold value, limiting a prefetch of data to storage in the L3 cache, and upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is less than a threshold value, allowing the prefetch of data to the L1 cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vikranth Vemulapalli, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Mike MacPherson, Aravindh Anantaraman, Ben Ashbaugh, Murali Ramadoss, William B. Sadler, Jonathan Pearce, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, JR., Prasoonkumar Surti, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Altug Koker, Sungye Kim, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Valentin Andrei
  • Publication number: 20220414815
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that generates, with a first graphics processing unit, geometric attributes associated with a first primitive. The technology determines that the first primitive is associated with a second graphics processing unit based on a first screen space tile associated with the first primitive, and transfers the geometric attributes of the first primitive from the first graphics processing unit to the second graphics processing unit based on the first primitive being associated with the first screen space tile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Andrew Dayton, Arthur Hunter, JR.
  • Publication number: 20220309605
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate tessellation redistribution for reducing latencies in processors is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide parallel interconnected geometry fixed-function units with separate front end and back ends, the front ends to perform patch culling and transmission and the back ends to perform patch reception from the front end and patch tessellation; provide a tessellation redistribution central engine to redistribute patches among the back ends using a redistribution bus; receive, by the tessellation redistribution central engine from the front ends in parallel, patch transmissions marked for distribution, the tessellation redistribution engine to process the patch transmissions in order; and in response to receiving a synchronization barrier packet from one of the front ends, broadcast, by the tessellation redistribution central engine, the synchronization barrier packet to the back ends to cause one of the back ends to process tessellation work locally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Amandeep Singh, Arthur Hunter, JR., Abhinav Srivastava, Rashmi Agarwal, Mohit Choradia
  • Publication number: 20220261347
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving cache efficiency and utilization are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes processing resources to perform graphics operations and a cache controller of a cache coupled to the processing resources. The cache controller is configured to control cache priority by determining whether default settings or an instruction will control cache operations for the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Ben Ashbaugh, Jonathan Pearce, Abhishek Appu, Vasanth Ranganathan, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter,, JR., Brent Insko, Scott Janus, Pattabhiraman K, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Marian Alin Petre, Murali Ramadoss, Shailesh Shah, Kamal Sinha, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Patent number: 11409658
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to data prefetching for graphics data processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including one or more graphics processing units (GPUs); and a plurality of caches to provide storage for the one or more GPUs, the plurality of caches including at least an L1 cache and an L3 cache, wherein the apparatus to provide intelligent prefetching of data by a prefetcher of a first GPU of the one or more GPUs including measuring a hit rate for the L1 cache; upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is equal to or greater than a threshold value, limiting a prefetch of data to storage in the L3 cache, and upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is less than a threshold value, allowing the prefetch of data to the L1 cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vikranth Vemulapalli, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Mike MacPherson, Aravindh Anantaraman, Ben Ashbaugh, Murali Ramadoss, William B. Sadler, Jonathan Pearce, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Jr., Prasoonkumar Surti, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Altug Koker, Sungye Kim, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Valentin Andrei
  • Publication number: 20220197800
    Abstract: Graphics processors of the present design provide hierarchical open sectors and variable cache sizes for cache operations. In one embodiment, a graphics processor comprises a cache memory having a hierarchical open sector design including a first hierarchy of upper and lower regions with each region including a second hierarchy of sectors. A cache controller is configured to initially open a first sector of the lower region, to receive a memory request that does not match an address in the first sector, and to open a second sector of the lower region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek Appu, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Altug Koker, Sean Coleman, Varghese George, Arthur Hunter, Jr., Brent Insko, Scott Janus, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Kamal Sinha, Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan
  • Publication number: 20220179787
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving cache efficiency and utilization are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes processing resources to perform graphics operations and a cache controller of a cache coupled to the processing resources. The cache controller is configured to control cache priority by determining whether default settings or an instruction will control cache operations for the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Ben Ashbaugh, Jonathan Pearce, Abhishek Appu, Vasanth Ranganathan, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter, Jr., Brent Insko, Scott Janus, Pattabhiraman K, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Marian Alin Petre, Murali Ramadoss, Shailesh Shah, Kamal Sinha, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Publication number: 20210374897
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include, software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. Embodiment described herein provided techniques to skip computational operations for zero filled matrices and sub-matrices. Embodiments additionally provide techniques to maintain data compression through to a processing unit. Embodiments additionally provide an architecture for a sparse aware logic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Scott Janus, Varghese George, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Altug Koker, Abhishek Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vasanth Ranganathan, Andrei Valentin, Ashutosh Garg, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter, JR., SungYe Kim, Mike Macpherson, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, William Sadler, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Patent number: 11145105
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to multi-tile graphics processor rendering. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a memory for storage of data; and one or more processors including a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process data, wherein the GPU includes a plurality of GPU tiles, wherein, upon geometric data being assigned to each of a plurality of screen tiles, the apparatus is to transfer the geometric data to the plurality of GPU tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Arthur Hunter, Jr., Kamal Sinha, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma
  • Patent number: 11113784
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include, software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. Embodiment described herein provided techniques to skip computational operations for zero filled matrices and sub-matrices. Embodiments additionally provide techniques to maintain data compression through to a processing unit. Embodiments additionally provide an architecture for a sparse aware logic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Scott Janus, Varghese George, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Altug Koker, Abhishek Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vasanth Ranganathan, Andrei Valentin, Ashutosh Garg, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter, Jr., SungYe Kim, Mike Macpherson, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, William Sadler, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Publication number: 20210255957
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to data prefetching for graphics data processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including one or more graphics processing units (GPUs); and a plurality of caches to provide storage for the one or more GPUs, the plurality of caches including at least an L1 cache and an L3 cache, wherein the apparatus to provide intelligent prefetching of data by a prefetcher of a first GPU of the one or more GPUs including measuring a hit rate for the L1 cache; upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is equal to or greater than a threshold value, limiting a prefetch of data to storage in the L3 cache, and upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is less than a threshold value, allowing the prefetch of data to the L1 cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vikranth Vemulapalli, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Mike MacPherson, Aravindh Anantaraman, Ben Ashbaugh, Murali Ramadoss, William B. Sadler, Jonathan Pearce, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, JR., Prasoonkumar Surti, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Altug Koker, Sungye Kim, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Valentin Andrei
  • Patent number: 10963985
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that determines a size of a meshlet and writes the meshlet to a full-sized buffer allocation if the size of the meshlet is greater than a partial-sized buffer allocation. The technology may also write the meshlet to the partial-sized buffer allocation if the size of the meshlet is not greater than the partial-sized buffer allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Doyle, Arthur Hunter, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210035258
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include, software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. Embodiment described herein provided techniques to skip computational operations for zero filled matrices and sub-matrices. Embodiments additionally provide techniques to maintain data compression through to a processing unit. Embodiments additionally provide an architecture for a sparse aware logic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Scott Janus, Varghese George, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Altug Koker, Abhishek Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Vasanth Ranganathan, Andrei Valentin, Ashutosh Garg, Yoav Harel, Arthur Hunter, JR., SungYe Kim, Mike Macpherson, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, William Sadler, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Vikranth Vemulapalli
  • Patent number: 10909039
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to data prefetching for graphics data processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including one or more graphics processing units (GPUs); and a plurality of caches to provide storage for the one or more GPUs, the plurality of caches including at least an L1 cache and an L3 cache, wherein the apparatus to provide intelligent prefetching of data by a prefetcher of a first GPU of the one or more GPUs including measuring a hit rate for the L1 cache; upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is equal to or greater than a threshold value, limiting a prefetch of data to storage in the L3 cache, and upon determining that the hit rate for the L1 cache is less than a threshold value, allowing the prefetch of data to the L1 cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vikranth Vemulapalli, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Mike MacPherson, Aravindh Anantaraman, Ben Ashbaugh, Murali Ramadoss, William B. Sadler, Jonathan Pearce, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Jr., Prasoonkumar Surti, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Altug Koker, Sungye Kim, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Valentin Andrei
  • Publication number: 20200410631
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that determines a size of a meshlet and writes the meshlet to a full-sized buffer allocation if the size of the meshlet is greater than a partial-sized buffer allocation. The technology may also write the meshlet to the partial-sized buffer allocation if the size of the meshlet is not greater than the partial-sized buffer allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Doyle, Arthur Hunter, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200294301
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to multi-tile graphics processor rendering. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a memory for storage of data; and one or more processors including a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process data, wherein the GPU includes a plurality of GPU tiles, wherein, upon geometric data being assigned to each of a plurality of screen tiles, the apparatus is to transfer the geometric data to the plurality of GPU tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Arthur Hunter, JR., Kamal Sinha, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma