Patents by Inventor John C. Weast

John C. Weast 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).

  • Publication number: 20250117874
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies and a parallel processor including a plurality of multiprocessors. Each multiprocessor has a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the parallel processor coupled to the memory stack via one or more memory interfaces. At least one multiprocessor comprises a multiply-accumulate circuit to perform multiply-accumulate operations on matrix data in a stage of a neural network implementation to produce a result matrix comprising a plurality of matrix data elements at a first precision, precision tracking logic to evaluate metrics associated with the matrix data elements and indicate if an optimization is to be performed for representing data at a second stage of the neural network implementation, and a numerical transform unit to dynamically perform a numerical transform operation on the matrix data elements based on the indication to produce transformed matrix data elements at a second precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland
  • Publication number: 20250005703
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes a mixed precision core including mixed-precision execution circuitry to execute one or more of the mixed-precision instructions to perform a mixed-precision dot-product operation comprising to perform a set of multiply and accumulate operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Linda L. Hurd, Dukhwan Kim, Mike B. Macpherson, John C. Weast, Feng Chen, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman
  • Patent number: 12148063
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a multi-chip module accelerator usable to execute tensor data processing operations a multi-chip module. The multi-chip module may include a memory stack including multiple memory dies and parallel processor circuitry communicatively coupled to the memory stack. The parallel processor circuitry may include multiprocessor cores to execute matrix multiplication and accumulate operations. The matrix multiplication and accumulate operations may include floating-point operations that are configurable to include two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operations involving inputs that have differing floating-point precisions. The floating-point operations may include a first operation at a first precision and a second operation at a second precision. The first operation may include a multiply having at least one 16-bit floating-point input and the second operation may include an accumulate having a 32-bit floating-point input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland
  • Publication number: 20240280987
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating barriers and synchronization for machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting thread groups relating to machine learning associated with one or more processing devices. The method may further include facilitating barrier synchronization of the thread groups across multiple dies such that each thread in a thread group is scheduled across a set of compute elements associated with the multiple dies, where each die represents a processing device of the one or more processing devices, the processing device including a graphics processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 12056788
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes a mixed precision core including mixed-precision execution circuitry to execute one or more of the mixed-precision instructions to perform a mixed-precision dot-product operation comprising to perform a set of multiply and accumulate operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Linda L. Hurd, Dukhwan Kim, Mike B. Macpherson, John C. Weast, Feng Chen, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman
  • Patent number: 12001209
    Abstract: A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting thread groups relating to machine learning associated with one or more processing devices. The method may further include facilitating barrier synchronization of the thread groups across multiple dies such that each thread in a thread group is scheduled across a set of compute elements associated with the multiple dies, where each die represents a processing device of the one or more processing devices, the processing device including a graphics processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 11948224
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies and a parallel processor including a plurality of multiprocessors. Each multiprocessor has a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the parallel processor coupled to the memory stack via one or more memory interfaces. At least one multiprocessor comprises a multiply-accumulate circuit to perform multiply-accumulate operations on matrix data in a stage of a neural network implementation to produce a result matrix comprising a plurality of matrix data elements at a first precision, precision tracking logic to evaluate metrics associated with the matrix data elements and indicate if an optimization is to be performed for representing data at a second stage of the neural network implementation, and a numerical transform unit to dynamically perform a numerical transform operation on the matrix data elements based on the indication to produce transformed matrix data elements at a second precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland
  • Publication number: 20240070320
    Abstract: Technologies for displaying public and private images includes a display device and one or more user viewing devices. The display device is configured to display or generate a personalized image or video that is viewable by an authorized user viewing device and not viewable by unauthorized viewing devices. To facilitate the display of the personalized images, the display device and the user viewing device(s) may negotiate a display protocol to be used by the display device to display the personalized image in a private manner. In some embodiment, the display device may also display a public image or video that is viewable by unauthorized viewing devices and/or individuals without viewing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Weast, Joshua Boelter
  • Patent number: 11900665
    Abstract: A graphics processor can include a processing cluster array including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with the plurality of memory controllers, each processing cluster of the plurality of processing clusters including a plurality of streaming multiprocessors, the processing cluster array configured for partitioning into a plurality of partitions. The plurality of partitions include a first partition including a first plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a first neural network, The operations for the first neural network are isolated to the first partition. The plurality of partitions also include a second partition including a second plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a second neural network. The operations for the second neural network are isolated to the second partition and protected from operations performed for the first neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Barnan Das, Mayuresh M. Varerkar, Narayan Biswal, Stanley J. Baran, Gokcen Cilingir, Nilesh V. Shah, Archie Sharma, Sherine Abdelhak, Praneetha Kotha, Neelay Pandit, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray
  • Publication number: 20240013337
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for detecting, at training time, information related to one or more tasks to be performed by the one or more processors according to a training dataset for a neural network, analyzing the information to determine one or more portions of hardware of a processor of the one or more processors that is configurable to support the one or more tasks, configuring the hardware to pre-select the one or more portions to perform the one or more tasks, while other portions of the hardware remain available for other tasks, and monitoring utilization of the hardware via a hardware unit of the graphics processor and, via a scheduler of the graphics processor, adjusting allocation of the one or more tasks to the one or more portions of the hardware based on the utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Linda L. Hurd, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan, Dukhwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20240005136
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a compute engine comprising a high precision component and a low precision component; and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive instructions in the compute engine; select at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions; and apply a gate to at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kamal Sinha, Balaji Vembu, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Feng Chen, Dukhwan Kim, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, John C. Weast, Mike B. MacPherson, Linda L. Hurd, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Patent number: 11853458
    Abstract: Technologies for displaying public and private images includes a display device and one or more user viewing devices. The display device is configured to display or generate a personalized image or video that is viewable by an authorized user viewing device and not viewable by unauthorized viewing devices. To facilitate the display of the personalized images, the display device and the user viewing device(s) may negotiate a display protocol to be used by the display device to display the personalized image in a private manner. In some embodiment, the display device may also display a public image or video that is viewable by unauthorized viewing devices and/or individuals without viewing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: John C. Weast, Joshua Boelter
  • Publication number: 20230401668
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a general-purpose graphics processing unit comprising a dynamic precision floating-point unit including a control unit having precision tracking hardware logic to track an available number of bits of precision for computed data relative to a target precision, wherein the dynamic precision floating-point unit includes computational logic to output data at multiple precisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland
  • Publication number: 20230368516
    Abstract: A graphics processor can include a processing cluster array including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with the plurality of memory controllers, each processing cluster of the plurality of processing clusters including a plurality of streaming multiprocessors, the processing cluster array configured for partitioning into a plurality of partitions. The plurality of partitions include a first partition including a first plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a first neural network, The operations for the first neural network are isolated to the first partition. The plurality of partitions also include a second partition including a second plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a second neural network. The operations for the second neural network are isolated to the second partition and protected from operations performed for the first neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Barnan Das, Mayuresh M. Varerkar, Narayan Biswal, Stanley J. Baran, Gokcen Cilingir, Nilesh V. Shah, Archie Sharma, Sherine Abdelhak, Praneetha Kotha, Neelay Pandit, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray
  • Patent number: 11797837
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to analyze a workload and assign the workload to one of the first type of execution unit or the second type of execution unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Publication number: 20230334316
    Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a memory device and a graphics processing cluster coupled with the memory device. The graphics processing cluster includes a plurality of graphics multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect. A graphics multiprocessor includes circuitry configured to load a modular neural network including a plurality of subnetworks, each of the plurality of subnetworks trained to perform a computer vision operation on a separate subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Patent number: 11748606
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a compute engine comprising a high precision component and a low precision component; and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive instructions in the compute engine; select at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions; and apply a gate to at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kamal Sinha, Balaji Vembu, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Feng Chen, Dukhwan Kim, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, John C. Weast, Mike B. MacPherson, Linda L. Hurd, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar
  • Patent number: 11748841
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating inference coordination and processing utilization for machine learning. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes limiting execution of workloads for the respective contexts of a plurality of contexts to a specified subset of a plurality of processing resources of a processing system according to physical resource slices of the processing system that are associated with the respective contexts of the plurality of contexts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Linda L. Hurd, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan, Dukhwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20230177817
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating recognition, reidentification, and security in machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating a camera to detect one or more objects within a physical vicinity, the one or more objects including a person, and the physical vicinity including a house, where detecting includes capturing one or more images of one or more portions of a body of the person. The method may further include extracting body features based on the one or more portions of the body, comparing the extracted body features with feature vectors stored at a database, and building a classification model based on the extracted body features over a period of time to facilitate recognition or reidentification of the person independent of facial recognition of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: BARNAN DAS, MAYURESH M. VARERKAR, NARAYAN BISWAL, STANLEY J. BARAN, GOKCEN CILINGIR, NILESH V. SHAH, ARCHIE SHARMA, SHERINE ABDELHAK, PRANEETHA KOTHA, NEELAY PANDIT, JOHN C. WEAST, MIKE B. MACPHERSON, DUKHWAN KIM, LINDA L. HURD, ABHISHEK R. APPU, ALTUG KOKER, JOYDEEP RAY
  • Patent number: 11669932
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating sharing of data and compression expansion of models at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a first processor processing information relating to a neural network at a first computing device, where the first processor comprises a first graphics processor and the first computing device comprises a first autonomous machine. The method further includes facilitating the first processor to store one or more portions of the information in a library at a database, where the one or more portions are accessible to a second processor of a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Joydeep Ray