US 2020/0089550 A1 · BROADCAST COMMAND AND RESPONSE

Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a broadcast read response protocol are disclosed. A computing system includes a plurality of processing engines coupled to a memory subsystem. A first processing engine executes a read and broadcast response command, wherein the read and broadcast response command targets first data at a first address in the memory subsystem. One or more other processing engines execute a wait command to wait to receive the first data requested by the first processing engine. After receiving the first data from the memory subsystem, the plurality of processing engines process the first data as part of completing a first operation. In one implementation, the first operation is implementing a given layer of a machine learning model. In one implementation, the given layer is a convolutional layer of a neural network.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a plurality of processing engines;
and
a memory;
wherein a first processing engine of the plurality of processing engines is configured to execute a read and broadcast response command, wherein the read and broadcast response command targets first data at a first address in the memory;
wherein one or more processing engines other than the first processing engine of the plurality of processing engines are configured to execute a wait command to receive the first data;
wherein the plurality of processing engines are configured to:
receive the first data as a result of the first processing engine executing the read and broadcast response command;
and
process the first data as part of completing a first operation.

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Abstract

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