Patents by Inventor Darin Starkey
Darin Starkey 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).
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Publication number: 20260319995Abstract: Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accumulate instructions for a hybrid floating point format are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor comprises an instruction unit to dispatch instructions and a processing resource coupled to the instruction unit. The processing resource is configured to receive a dot product accumulate instruction from the instruction unit and to process the dot product accumulate instruction using a bfloat16 number (BF16) format.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2026Publication date: October 15, 2026Applicant: Intel Products IP LLCInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Patent number: 12670121Abstract: Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accumulate instructions for a hybrid floating point format are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor comprises an instruction unit to dispatch instructions and a processing resource coupled to the instruction unit. The processing resource is configured to receive a dot product accumulate instruction from the instruction unit and to process the dot product accumulate instruction using a bfloat16 number (BF16) format.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2024Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Patent number: 12639398Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with a host interface, each processing cluster comprising a plurality of multiprocessors, the plurality of multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect, and each multiprocessor comprising sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic processing array with feedback inputs.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Jorge Parra, Supratim Pal, Ashutosh Garg, Shubra Marwaha, Chandra Gurram, Darin Starkey, Durgesh Borkar, Varghese George
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Publication number: 20240427847Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with a host interface, each processing cluster comprising a plurality of multiprocessors, the plurality of multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect, and each multiprocessor comprising sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic processing array with feedback inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: SUBRAMANIAM MAIYURAN, JORGE PARRA, SUPRATIM PAL, ASHUTOSH GARG, SHUBRA MARWAHA, CHANDRA GURRAM, DARIN STARKEY, DURGESH BORKAR, VARGHESE GEORGE
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Publication number: 20240362180Abstract: Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accumulate instructions for a hybrid floating point format are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor comprises an instruction unit to dispatch instructions and a processing resource coupled to the instruction unit. The processing resource is configured to receive a dot product accumulate instruction from the instruction unit and to process the dot product accumulate instruction using a bfloat16 number (BF16) format.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Patent number: 12039001Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with a host interface, each processing cluster comprising a plurality of multiprocessors, the plurality of multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect, and each multiprocessor comprising sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic processing array with feedback inputs.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Jorge Parra, Supratim Pal, Ashutosh Garg, Shubra Marwaha, Chandra Gurram, Darin Starkey, Durgesh Borkar, Varghese George
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Patent number: 12007935Abstract: Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accumulate instructions for a hybrid floating point format are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor comprises an instruction unit to dispatch instructions and a processing resource coupled to the instruction unit. The processing resource is configured to receive a dot product accumulate instruction from the instruction unit and to process the dot product accumulate instruction using a bfloat16 number (BF16) format.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Patent number: 11954063Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) configured to receive an instruction having multiple operands, where the instruction is a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instruction configured to use a bfloat16 (BF16) number format and the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent. The GPU can process the instruction using the multiple operands, where to process the instruction includes to perform a multiply operation, perform an addition to a result of the multiply operation, and apply a rectified linear unit function to a result of the addition.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Publication number: 20230281272Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with a host interface, each processing cluster comprising a plurality of multiprocessors, the plurality of multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect, and each multiprocessor comprising sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic processing array with feedback inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: SUBRAMANIAM MAIYURAN, JORGE PARRA, SUPRATIM PAL, ASHUTOSH GARG, SHUBRA MARWAHA, CHANDRA GURRAM, DARIN STARKEY, DURGESH BORKAR, VARGHESE GEORGE
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Patent number: 11709793Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a first processing cluster to perform parallel processing operations, the parallel processing operations including a ray tracing operation and a matrix multiply operation; and a second processing cluster coupled to the first processing cluster, wherein the first processing cluster includes a floating-point unit to perform floating point operations, the floating-point unit is configured to process an instruction using a bfloat16 (BF16) format with a multiplier to multiply second and third source operands while an accumulator adds a first source operand with output from the multiplier.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Publication number: 20230195685Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) configured to receive an instruction having multiple operands, where the instruction is a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instruction configured to use a bfloat16 (BF16) number format and the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent. The GPU can process the instruction using the multiple operands, where to process the instruction includes to perform a multiply operation, perform an addition to a result of the multiply operation, and apply a rectified linear unit function to a result of the addition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Patent number: 11636174Abstract: Described herein is an accelerator device including a host interface, a fabric interconnect coupled with the host interface, and one or more hardware tiles coupled with the fabric interconnect, the one or more hardware tiles including sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic array with feedback inputs.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Jorge Parra, Supratim Pal, Ashutosh Garg, Shubra Marwaha, Chandra Gurram, Darin Starkey, Durgesh Borkar, Varghese George
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Publication number: 20220365901Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a first processing cluster to perform parallel processing operations, the parallel processing operations including a ray tracing operation and a matrix multiply operation; and a second processing cluster coupled to the first processing cluster, wherein the first processing cluster includes a floating-point unit to perform floating point operations, the floating-point unit is configured to process an instruction using a bfloat16 (BF16) format with a multiplier to multiply second and third source operands while an accumulator adds a first source operand with output from the multiplier.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Patent number: 11361496Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) multiprocessor comprising an instruction cache, a shared memory coupled with the instruction cache, and circuitry coupled with the shared memory and the instruction cache, the circuitry including multiple texture units, a first core including hardware to accelerate matrix operations, and a second core configured to receive an instruction having multiple operands in a bfloat16 (BF16) number format, wherein the multiple operands include a first source operand, a second source operand, and a third source operand, and the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent and process the instruction, wherein to process the instruction includes to multiply the second source operand by the third source operand and add a first source operand to a result of the multiply.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Publication number: 20220156343Abstract: Described herein is an accelerator device including a host interface, a fabric interconnect coupled with the host interface, and one or more hardware tiles coupled with the fabric interconnect, the one or more hardware tiles including sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic array with feedback inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: SUBRAMANIAM MAIYURAN, JORGE PARRA, SUPRATIM PAL, ASHUTOSH GARG, SHUBRA MARWAHA, CHANDRA GURRAM, DARIN STARKEY, DURGESH BORKAR, VARGHESE GEORGE
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Publication number: 20220129266Abstract: Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accumulate instructions for a hybrid floating point format are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor comprises an instruction unit to dispatch instructions and a processing resource coupled to the instruction unit. The processing resource is configured to receive a dot product accumulate instruction from the instruction unit and to process the dot product accumulate instruction using a bfloat16 number (BF16) format.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh
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Patent number: 11204977Abstract: Described herein is an accelerator device including a host interface, a fabric interconnect coupled with the host interface, and one or more hardware tiles coupled with the fabric interconnect, the one or more hardware tiles including sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic array with feedback inputs.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Jorge Parra, Supratim Pal, Ashutosh Garg, Shubra Marwaha, Chandra Gurram, Darin Starkey, Durgesh Borkar, Varghese George
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Publication number: 20210349966Abstract: Described herein is an accelerator device including a host interface, a fabric interconnect coupled with the host interface, and one or more hardware tiles coupled with the fabric interconnect, the one or more hardware tiles including sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic array with feedback inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: SUBRAMANIAM MAIYURAN, JORGE PARRA, SUPRATIM PAL, ASHUTOSH GARG, SHUBRA MARWAHA, CHANDRA GURRAM, DARIN STARKEY, DURGESH BORKAR, VARGHESE GEORGE
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Publication number: 20210312697Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) multiprocessor comprising an instruction cache, a shared memory coupled with the instruction cache, and circuitry coupled with the shared memory and the instruction cache, the circuitry including multiple texture units, a first core including hardware to accelerate matrix operations, and a second core configured to receive an instruction having multiple operands in a bfloat16 (BF16) number format, wherein the multiple operands include a first source operand, a second source operand, and a third source operand, and the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent and process the instruction, wherein to process the instruction includes to multiply the second source operand by the third source operand and add a first source operand to a result of the multiply.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Shubra Marwaha, Ashutosh Garg, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra, Chandra Gurram, Varghese George, Darin Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh