Efficient Operand Multicast For Acceleration

Abstract

In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises: a requestor configured to transmit a first operand and a second operand, wherein the first operand is partitioned; a shared network configured to transmit the operands; a processing load balancer for receiving the operands; a plurality of processing elements that are configured to process the operands; and a private network configured to multicast the operands to the processing elements. In another embodiment of the invention, a method comprises: transmitting a first operand and a second operand from a requestor, wherein the first operand is partitioned; transmitting the operands along a shared network; receiving the operands by a processing load balancer; multicasting the operands by a private network; and processing the operands by a plurality of processing elements. In yet another embodiment of the invention, an article of manufacture comprises a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions operable to permit an apparatus to perform a method comprising: transmitting a first operand and a second operand from a requestor, wherein the first operand is partitioned; transmitting the operands along a shared network; receiving the operands by a processing load balancer; multicasting the operands by a private network; and processing the operands by a plurality of processing elements.

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