Patents by Inventor Benjamin FAULKNER

Benjamin FAULKNER 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).

  • Programmable power balancing in a datacenter
    Patent number: 11971774
    Abstract: A datacenter power management system and method is disclosed. A plurality of computing units are enabled to operate at a second frequency, higher than a first frequency, in response to determining from respective power coefficients for these computing units, that a power level at this higher frequency remains below a power budget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Faulkner, Mini Rawat, Sreedhar Narayanaswamy, Tom Li, Swanand Bindoo, Divya Ramakrishnan
  • Techniques for configuring a processor to execute instructions efficiently
    Patent number: 11487341
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for improving the performance of circuits while adapting to dynamic voltage drops caused by the execution of noisy instructions (e.g. high power consuming instructions) are provided. The performance is improved by slowing down the frequency of operation selectively for types of noisy instructions. An example technique controls a clock by detecting an instruction of a predetermined noisy type that is predicted to have a predefined noise characteristic (e.g. a high level of noise generated on the voltage rails of a circuit due to greater amount of current drawn by the instruction), and, responsive to the detecting, deceasing a frequency of the clock. The detecting occurs before execution of the instruction. The changing of the frequency in accordance with instruction type enables the circuits to be operated at high frequencies even if some of the workloads include instructions for which the frequency of operation is slowed down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aniket Naik, Tezaswi Raja, Kevin Wilder, Rajeshwaran Selvanesan, Divya Ramakrishnan, Daniel Rodriguez, Benjamin Faulkner, Raj Jayakar, Fei (Walter) Li
  • PROGRAMMABLE POWER BALANCING IN A DATACENTER
    Publication number: 20220113789
    Abstract: A datacenter power management system and method is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Faulkner, Mini Rawat, Sreedhar Narayanaswamy, Tom Li, Swanand Bindoo, Divya Ramakrishnan
  • TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING A PROCESSOR TO EXECUTE INSTRUCTIONS EFFICIENTLY
    Publication number: 20200050251
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for improving the performance of circuits while adapting to dynamic voltage drops caused by the execution of noisy instructions (e.g. high power consuming instructions) are provided. The performance is improved by slowing down the frequency of operation selectively for types of noisy instructions. An example technique controls a clock by detecting an instruction of a predetermined noisy type that is predicted to have a predefined noise characteristic (e.g. a high level of noise generated on the voltage rails of a circuit due to greater amount of current drawn by the instruction), and, responsive to the detecting, deceasing a frequency of the clock. The detecting occurs before execution of the instruction. The changing of the frequency in accordance with instruction type enables the circuits to be operated at high frequencies even if some of the workloads include instructions for which the frequency of operation is slowed down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: ANIKET NAIK, Tezaswi RAJA, Kevin WILDER, Raj SELVANESAN, Divya RAMAKRISHNAN, Daniel RODRIGUEZ, Benjamin FAULKNER, Raj JAYAKAR, Walter LI