Patents by Inventor Ben ASHBAUGH

Ben ASHBAUGH 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: 12367540
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate processing in a multi-tile device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of processing tiles, each including a memory device and a plurality of processing resources, coupled to the device memory, and a memory management unit to manage the memory devices in each of the plurality of tiles to perform allocation of memory resources among the memory devices for execution by the plurality of processing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Mrozek, Bartosz Dunajski, Ben Ashbaugh, Brandon Fliflet
  • Publication number: 20250200700
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate processing in a multi-tile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a graphics processor comprising a first semiconductor die including a first high-bandwidth memory (HBM) device, a second semiconductor die including a second HBM device, and a third semiconductor die coupled with the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die in a 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) arrangement. The third semiconductor die includes a graphics processing resource and a cache coupled with the graphics processing resource. The cache is configurable to cache data associated with memory accessed by the graphics processing resource and the graphics processing resource includes a general-purpose graphics processor core and a tensor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Mrozek, Bartosz Dunajski, Ben Ashbaugh, Brandon Fliflet
  • Publication number: 20250103548
    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: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    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: 20250068588
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to scalar core integration in a graphics processor. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a set of workload instructions for a graphics workload from a host complex, determine a first subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a scalar processor complex of the graphics processing device and a second subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a vector processor complex of the graphics processing device, assign the first subset of operations to the scalar processor complex for execution to generate a first set of outputs, assign the second subset of operations to the vector processor complex for execution to generate a second set of outputs. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep RAY, Aravindh ANANTARAMAN, Abhishek R. APPU, Altug KOKER, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Valentin ANDREI, Subramaniam MAIYURAN, Nicolas GALOPPO VON BORRIES, Varghese GEORGE, Mike MACPHERSON, Ben ASHBAUGH, Murali RAMADOSS, Vikranth VEMULAPALLI, William SADLER, Jonathan PEARCE, Sungye KIM
  • Patent number: 12217327
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate processing in a multi-tile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a graphics processor comprising a first semiconductor die including a first high-bandwidth memory (HBM) device, a second semiconductor die including a second HBM device, and a third semiconductor die coupled with the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die in a 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) arrangement. The third semiconductor die includes a graphics processing resource and a cache coupled with the graphics processing resource. The cache is configurable to cache data associated with memory accessed by the graphics processing resource and the graphics processing resource includes a general-purpose graphics processor core and a tensor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Mrozek, Bartosz Dunajski, Ben Ashbaugh, Brandon Fliflet
  • Patent number: 12210477
    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: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    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: 20250028675
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include software, firmware, and hardware that provides techniques to enable deterministic scheduling across multiple general-purpose graphics processing units. One embodiment provides a multi-GPU architecture with uniform latency. One embodiment provides techniques to distribute memory output based on memory chip thermals. One embodiment provides techniques to enable thermally aware workload scheduling. One embodiment provides techniques to enable end to end contracts for workload scheduling on multiple GPUs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: JOYDEEP RAY, SELVAKUMAR PANNEER, SAURABH TANGRI, BEN ASHBAUGH, SCOTT JANUS, ABHISHEK APPU, VARGHESE GEORGE, RAVISHANKAR IYER, NILESH JAIN, PATTABHIRAMAN K, ALTUG KOKER, MIKE MACPHERSON, JOSH MASTRONARDE, ELMOUSTAPHA OULD-AHMED-VALL, JAYAKRISHNA P. S, ERIC SAMSON
  • Publication number: 20240345990
    Abstract: Multi-tile Memory Management for Detecting Cross Tile Access, Providing Multi-Tile Inference Scaling with multicasting of data via copy operation, and Providing Page Migration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a graphics processor for a multi-tile architecture includes a first graphics processing unit (GPU) having a memory and a memory controller, a second graphics processing unit (GPU) having a memory and a cross-GPU fabric to communicatively couple the first and second GPUs. The memory controller is configured to determine whether frequent cross tile memory accesses occur from the first GPU to the memory of the second GPU in the multi-GPU configuration and to send a message to initiate a data transfer mechanism when frequent cross tile memory accesses occur from the first GPU to the memory of the second GPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Varghese George, Ben Ashbaugh, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek Appu, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Altug Koker, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Nilay Mistry, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Selvakumar Panneer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Ankur Shah, Saurabh Tangri
  • Patent number: 12117962
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to scalar core integration in a graphics processor. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a set of workload instructions for a graphics workload from a host complex, determine a first subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a scalar processor complex of the graphics processing device and a second subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a vector processor complex of the graphics processing device, assign the first subset of operations to the scalar processor complex for execution to generate a first set of outputs, assign the second subset of operations to the vector processor complex for execution to generate a second set of outputs. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Aravindh Anantaraman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Ben Ashbaugh, Murali Ramadoss, Vikranth Vemulapalli, William Sadler, Jonathan Pearce, Sungye Kim
  • Publication number: 20240320184
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to a multi-tile architecture for graphics operations. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a multi-tile architecture for graphics operations including a multi-tile graphics processor, the multi-tile processor includes one or more dies; multiple processor tiles installed on the one or more dies; and a structure to interconnect the processor tiles on the one or more dies, wherein the structure to enable communications between processor tiles the processor tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Ben Ashbaugh, Scott Janus, Aravindh Anantaraman, Abhishek R. Appu, Niranjan Cooray, Varghese George, Arthur Hunter, Brent E. Insko, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Selvakumar Panneer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Kamal Sinha, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Saurabh Tangri
  • Patent number: 12079155
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include software, firmware, and hardware that provides techniques to enable deterministic scheduling across multiple general-purpose graphics processing units. One embodiment provides a multi-GPU architecture with uniform latency. One embodiment provides techniques to distribute memory output based on memory chip thermals. One embodiment provides techniques to enable thermally aware workload scheduling. One embodiment provides techniques to enable end to end contracts for workload scheduling on multiple GPUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Selvakumar Panneer, Saurabh Tangri, Ben Ashbaugh, Scott Janus, Abhishek Appu, Varghese George, Ravishankar Iyer, Nilesh Jain, Pattabhiraman K, Altug Koker, Mike MacPherson, Josh Mastronarde, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jayakrishna P. S, Eric Samson
  • Patent number: 12056906
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to compression in machine learning and deep learning processing. An embodiment of an apparatus for compression of untyped data includes a graphical processing unit (GPU) including a data compression pipeline, the data compression pipeline including a data port coupled with one or more shader cores, wherein the data port is to allow transfer of untyped data without format conversion, and a 3D compression/decompression unit to provide for compression of untyped data to be stored to a memory subsystem and decompression of untyped data from the memory subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Ben Ashbaugh, Prasoonkumar Surti, Pradeep Ramani, Rama Harihara, Jerin C. Justin, Jing Huang, Xiaoming Cui, Timothy B. Costa, Ting Gong, Elmoustapha Ould-ahmed-vall, Kumar Balasubramanian, Anil Thomas, Oguz H. Elibol, Jayaram Bobba, Guozhong Zhuang, Bhavani Subramanian, Gokce Keskin, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Rajesh Poornachandran
  • Publication number: 20240256456
    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 Li 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: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    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: 12013808
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to a multi-tile architecture for graphics operations. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a multi-tile architecture for graphics operations including a multi-tile graphics processor, the multi-tile processor includes one or more dies; multiple processor tiles installed on the one or more dies; and a structure to interconnect the processor tiles on the one or more dies, wherein the structure to enable communications between processor tiles the processor tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Ben Ashbaugh, Scott Janus, Aravindh Anantaraman, Abhishek R. Appu, Niranjan Cooray, Varghese George, Arthur Hunter, Brent E. Insko, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Selvakumar Panneer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Kamal Sinha, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Saurabh Tangri
  • Patent number: 11995029
    Abstract: Multi-tile Memory Management for Detecting Cross Tile Access, Providing Multi-Tile Inference Scaling with multicasting of data via copy operation, and Providing Page Migration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a graphics processor for a multi-tile architecture includes a first graphics processing unit (GPU) having a memory and a memory controller, a second graphics processing unit (GPU) having a memory and a cross-GPU fabric to communicatively couple the first and second GPUs. The memory controller is configured to determine whether frequent cross tile memory accesses occur from the first GPU to the memory of the second GPU in the multi-GPU configuration and to send a message to initiate a data transfer mechanism when frequent cross tile memory accesses occur from the first GPU to the memory of the second GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Varghese George, Ben Ashbaugh, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek Appu, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Altug Koker, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Nilay Mistry, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Selvakumar Panneer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Ankur Shah, Saurabh Tangri
  • Publication number: 20240111590
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate ordered thread dispatch for thread teams is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors including a graphic processor, the graphics processor including a plurality of processing resources, and wherein the graphics processor is to: allocate a thread team local identifier (ID) for respective threads of a thread team comprising a plurality of hardware threads that are to be executed solely by a processing resource of the plurality of processing resources; and dispatch the respective threads together into the processing resource, the respective threads having the thread team local ID allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Biju George, Vasanth Ranganathan, Fangwen Fu, Ben Ashbaugh, Roland Schulz
  • Publication number: 20240070926
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to compression in machine learning and deep learning processing. An embodiment of an apparatus for compression of untyped data includes a graphical processing unit (GPU) including a data compression pipeline, the data compression pipeline including a data port coupled with one or more shader cores, wherein the data port is to allow transfer of untyped data without format conversion, and a 3D compression/decompression unit to provide for compression of untyped data to be stored to a memory subsystem and decompression of untyped data from the memory subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Ben Ashbaugh, Prasoonkumar Surti, Pradeep Ramani, Rama Harihara, Jerin C. Justin, Jing Huang, Xiaoming Cui, Timothy B. Costa, Ting Gong, Elmoustapha Ould-ahmed-vall, Kumar Balasubramanian, Anil Thomas, Oguz H. Elibol, Jayaram Bobba, Guozhong Zhuang, Bhavani Subramanian, Gokce Keskin, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Rajesh Poornachandran
  • Publication number: 20240045830
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to scalar core integration in a graphics processor. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a set of workload instructions for a graphics workload from a host complex, determine a first subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a scalar processor complex of the graphics processing device and a second subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a vector processor complex of the graphics processing device, assign the first subset of operations to the scalar processor complex for execution to generate a first set of outputs, assign the second subset of operations to the vector processor complex for execution to generate a second set of outputs. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep RAY, Aravindh ANANTARAMAN, Abhishek R. APPU, Altug KOKER, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Valentin ANDREI, Subramaniam MAIYURAN, Nicolas GALOPPO VON BORRIES, Varghese GEORGE, Mike MACPHERSON, Ben ASHBAUGH, Murali RAMADOSS, Vikranth VEMULAPALLI, William SADLER, Jonathan PEARCE, Sungye KIM
  • 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: 20240028404
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to thread group scheduling for graphics processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a plurality of processors including a plurality of graphics processors to process data; a memory; and one or more caches for storage of data for the plurality of graphics processors, wherein the one or more processors are to schedule a plurality of groups of threads for processing by the plurality of graphics processors, the scheduling of the plurality of groups of threads including the plurality of processors to apply a bias for scheduling the plurality of groups of threads according to a cache locality for the one or more caches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Ashbaugh, Jonathan Pearce, Murali Ramadoss, Vikranth Vemulapalli, William B. Sadler, Sungye Kim, Marian Alin Petre