Patents by Inventor Mike MacPherson

Mike MacPherson 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: 12561276
    Abstract: Systems and methods for updating remote memory side caches in a multi-GPU configuration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a graphics processor for a multi-tile architecture includes a first graphics processing unit (GPU) having a first memory, a first memory side cache memory, a first communication fabric, and a first memory management unit (MMU). The graphics processor includes a second graphics processing unit (GPU) having a second memory, a second memory side cache memory, a second memory management unit (MMU), and a second communication fabric that is communicatively coupled to the first communication fabric. The first MMU is configured to control memory requests for the first memory, to update content in the first memory, to update content in the first memory side cache memory, and to determine whether to update the content in the second memory side cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek Appu, Sean Coleman, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Pattabhiraman K, SungYe Kim, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Vasanth Ranganathan, James Valerio
  • Patent number: 12561277
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to memory controller techniques. In an example, an apparatus comprises a cache memory, a high-bandwidth memory, and a processor communicatively coupled to the cache memory and the high-bandwidth memory, the processor to manage data transfer between the cache memory and the high-bandwidth memory for memory access operations directed to the high-bandwidth memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Aravindh Anantaraman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Altug Koker, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Joydeep Ray, Lakshminarayana Pappu, Guadalupe Garcia
  • Patent number: 12554674
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for multi-tile memory management. In an example, a graphics processor includes an interposer, a first chiplet coupled with the interposer, the first chiplet including a graphics processing resource and an interconnect network coupled with the graphics processing resource, cache circuitry coupled with the graphics processing resource via the interconnect network, and a second chiplet coupled with the first chiplet via the interposer, the second chiplet including a memory-side cache and a memory controller coupled with the memory-side cache. The memory controller is configured to enable access to a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) device, the memory-side cache is configured to cache data associated with a memory access performed via the memory controller, and the cache circuitry is logically positioned between the graphics processing resource and a chiplet interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Aravindh Anantaraman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Joydeep Ray, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, James Valerio, Ankur N. Shah
  • Publication number: 20260010345
    Abstract: A processing apparatus is described herein that includes a general-purpose parallel processing engine comprising a matrix accelerator including one or more systolic arrays, at least one of the one or more systolic arrays comprising multiple pipeline stages, each pipeline stage of the multiple pipeline stages including multiple processing elements, the multiple processing elements configured to perform processing operations on input matrix elements based on output sparsity metadata. The output sparsity metadata indicates to the multiple processing elements to bypass multiplication for a first row of elements of a second matrix and multiply a second row of elements of the second matrix with a column of matrix elements of a first matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge Parra, Fangwen Fu, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Supratim Pal, Chandra Gurram, Sabareesh Ganapathy, Sasikanth Avancha, Dharma Teja Vooturi, Naveen Mellempudi, Dipankar Das
  • Publication number: 20250390307
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a general-purpose parallel processing engine including a set of multiple processing elements including a single precision floating-point unit, a double precision floating point unit, and an integer unit; a matrix accelerator including one or more systolic arrays; a first register file coupled with a first read control circuit, wherein the first read control circuit couples with the set of multiple processing elements and the matrix accelerator to arbitrate read requests to the first register file from the set of multiple processing elements and the matrix accelerator; and a second register file coupled with a second read control circuit, wherein the second read control circuit couples with the matrix accelerator to arbitrate read requests to the second register file from the matrix accelerator and limit access to the second register file by the set of multiple processing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Gurram, Wei-yu Chen, Fangwen Fu, Sabareesh Ganapathy, Varghese George, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Mike Macpherson, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra
  • Publication number: 20250315405
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide hardware support for activation functions within a matrix engine. One embodiment provides a graphics processor including a tensor core having first circuitry to perform a matrix operation and second circuitry configured to perform an element-wise operation on a result of the matrix operation before the result is output by the tensor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Aravindh Anantaraman, Abhishek R. Appu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Ben J. Ashbaugh
  • Patent number: 12399685
    Abstract: A processing apparatus is described herein that includes a general-purpose parallel processing engine comprising a matrix accelerator including one or more systolic arrays, at least one of the one or more systolic arrays comprising multiple pipeline stages, each pipeline stage of the multiple pipeline stages including multiple processing elements, the multiple processing elements configured to perform processing operations on input matrix elements based on output sparsity metadata. The output sparsity metadata indicates to the multiple processing elements to bypass multiplication for a first row of elements of a second matrix and multiply a second row of elements of the second matrix with a column of matrix elements of a first matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge Parra, Fangwen Fu, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Supratim Pal, Chandra Gurram, Sabareesh Ganapathy, Sasikanth Avancha, Dharma Teja Vooturi, Naveen Mellempudi, Dipankar Das
  • Publication number: 20250252650
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a block of graphics cores and circuitry including a programmable neural network unit, the programmable neural network unit including one or more neural network hardware blocks, wherein a neural network hardware block includes circuitry to perform neural network operations and activation operations for a layer of a neural network, the programmable neural network unit addressable by cores within the block of graphics cores, wherein the programmable neural network unit is to configure one or more neural network hardware blocks with a meta-shader neural network, the meta-shader neural network to generate a texture for one of multiple types of terrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: HUGUES LABBE, DARREL PALKE, SHERINE ABDELHAK, JILL BOYCE, VARGHESE GEORGE, SCOTT JANUS, ADAM LAKE, ZHIJUN LEI, ZHENGMIN LI, MIKE MACPHERSON, CARL MARSHALL, SELVAKUMAR PANNEER, PRASOONKUMAR SURTI, KARTHIK VEERAMANI, DEEPAK VEMBAR, VALLABHAJOSYULA SRINIVASA SOMAYAZULU
  • Patent number: 12373912
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to memory prefetching in multiple GPU environment. An embodiment of an apparatus includes multiple processors including a host processor and multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) to process data, each of the GPUs including a prefetcher and a cache; and a memory for storage of data, the memory including a plurality of memory elements, wherein the prefetcher of each of the GPUs is to prefetch data from the memory to the cache of the GPU; and wherein the prefetcher of a GPU is prohibited from prefetching from a page that is not owned by the GPU or by the host processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Varghese George, Altug Koker, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran
  • Patent number: 12346694
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a general-purpose parallel processing engine including a set of multiple processing elements including a single precision floating-point unit, a double precision floating point unit, and an integer unit; a matrix accelerator including one or more systolic arrays; a first register file coupled with a first read control circuit, wherein the first read control circuit couples with the set of multiple processing elements and the matrix accelerator to arbitrate read requests to the first register file from the set of multiple processing elements and the matrix accelerator; and a second register file coupled with a second read control circuit, wherein the second read control circuit couples with the matrix accelerator to arbitrate read requests to the second register file from the matrix accelerator and limit access to the second register file by the set of multiple processing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Gurram, Wei-yu Chen, Fangwen Fu, Sabareesh Ganapathy, Varghese George, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Mike Macpherson, Supratim Pal, Jorge Parra
  • Publication number: 20250209564
    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: February 20, 2025
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    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
  • Publication number: 20250200697
    Abstract: Apparatuses including general-purpose graphics processing units having on chip dense memory for temporal buffering are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor includes a plurality of compute engines to perform first computations to generate a first set of data, cache for storing data, and a high density memory that is integrated on chip with the plurality of compute engines and the cache. The high density memory to receive the first set of data, to temporarily store the first set of data, and to provide the first set of data to the cache during a first time period that is prior to a second time period when the plurality of compute engines will use the first set of data for second computations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Varghese George, Altug Koker, Aravindh Anantaraman, Subramaniam Maiyuran, SungYe Kim, Valentin Andrei, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, Nicolas C. Galoppo von Borries, Prasoonkumar Surti, Mike Macpherson
  • Patent number: 12321310
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide techniques to facilitate instruction-based control of memory attributes. One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a processing resource, a memory device, a cache coupled with the processing resources and the memory, and circuitry to process a memory access message received from the processing resource. The memory access message enables access to data of the memory device. To process the memory access message, the circuitry is configured to determine one or more cache attributes that indicate whether the data should be read from or stored the cache. The cache attributes may be provided by the memory access message or stored in state data associated with the data to be accessed by the access message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Aravindh Anantaraman, Abhishek R. Appu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Ben J. Ashbaugh
  • Publication number: 20250173308
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to graphics processor data access and sharing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a circuit element to produce a result in processing of an application; a load-store unit to receive the result and generate pre-fetch information for a cache utilizing the result; and a prefetch generator to produce prefetch addresses based at least in part on the pre-fetch information; wherein the load-store unit is to receive software assistance for prefetching, and wherein generation of the pre-fetch information is based at least in part on the software assistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Varghese George, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Niranjan Cooray, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Mike MacPherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, David Puffer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Ankur N. Shah, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Saurabh Tangri
  • Publication number: 20250166114
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. One embodiment provides for data aware sparsity via compressed bitstreams. One embodiment provides for block sparse dot product instructions. One embodiment provides for a depth-wise adapter for a systolic array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek Appu, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Mike Macpherson, Fangwen Fu, Jiasheng Chen, Varghese George, Vasanth Ranganathan, Ashutosh Garg, Joydeep Ray
  • Publication number: 20250156371
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to data initialization techniques. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to read one or more metadata codes which map to one or more cache lines in a cache memory and invoke a random number generator to generate random numerical data for the one or more cache lines in response to a determination that the one more metadata codes indicate that the cache lines are to contain random numerical data. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Aravindh Anantaraman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Altug Koker, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Joydeep Ray, Vasanth Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 12293431
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20250117356
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for multi-tile memory management. In an example, a graphics processor includes an interposer, a first chiplet coupled with the interposer, the first chiplet including a graphics processing resource and an interconnect network coupled with the graphics processing resource, cache circuitry coupled with the graphics processing resource via the interconnect network, and a second chiplet coupled with the first chiplet via the interposer, the second chiplet including a memory-side cache and a memory controller coupled with the memory-side cache. The memory controller is configured to enable access to a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) device, the memory-side cache is configured to cache data associated with a memory access performed via the memory controller, and the cache circuitry is logically positioned between the graphics processing resource and a chiplet interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Aravindh Anantaraman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Joydeep Ray, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, James Valerio, Ankur N. Shah
  • Publication number: 20250103546
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to cache structure and utilization. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a graphics processor; a memory for storage of data for processing by the one or more processors; and a cache to cache data from the memory; wherein the apparatus is to provide for dynamic overfetching of cache lines for the cache, including receiving a read request and accessing the cache for the requested data, and upon a miss in the cache, overfetching data from memory or a higher level cache in addition to fetching the requested data, wherein the overfetching of data is based at least in part on a current overfetch boundary, and provides for data is to be prefetched extending to the current overfetch boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Sean Coleman, Varghese George, Pattabhiraman K, Mike MacPherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Jayakrishna P S, Prasoonkumar Surti
  • Publication number: 20250103547
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include software, firmware, and hardware logic that provides techniques to perform arithmetic on sparse data via a systolic processing unit. One embodiment provides techniques to optimize training and inference on a systolic array when using sparse data. One embodiment provides techniques to use decompression information when performing sparse compute operations. One embodiment enables the disaggregation of special function compute arrays via a shared reg file. One embodiment enables packed data compress and expand operations on a GPGPU. One embodiment provides techniques to exploit block sparsity within the cache hierarchy of a GPGPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek Appu, Varghese George, Altug Koker, Mike Macpherson, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, SungYe Kim