Inventor · Austin, TX, US

William E. Speight

54Patents
11h-index
33Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 2, 2005 → Jan 14, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7958316B2 Dynamic adjustment of prefetch stream priority Physics 25 Active
US7958183B2 Performing collective operations using software setup and partial software execution at leaf nodes in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture Physics 25 Active
US8161263B2 Techniques for indirect data prefetching Physics 19 Active
US7783870B2 Branch target address cache Physics 19 Active
US7281092B2 System and method of managing cache hierarchies with adaptive mechanisms Physics 17 Expired
US7657729B2 Efficient multiple-table reference prediction mechanism Physics 16 Active
US8185896B2 Method for data processing using a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture Physics 16 Active
US8127300B2 Hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface tasks Physics 14 Active
US7487297B2 Dynamically adjusting a pre-fetch distance to enable just-in-time prefetching within a processing system Physics 13 Active
US8234652B2 Performing setup operations for receiving different amounts of data while processors are performing message passing interface tasks Physics 13 Active
US8312464B2 Hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface tasks by modifying tasks Physics 11 Active
US8358503B2 Stackable module for energy-efficient computing systems Physics 10 Active
US8179674B2 Scalable space-optimized and energy-efficient computing system Physics 10 Active
US8108876B2 Modifying an operation of one or more processors executing message passing interface tasks Physics 9 Active
US7958317B2 Cache directed sequential prefetch Physics 8 Active
US8250307B2 Sourcing differing amounts of prefetch data in response to data prefetch requests Physics 8 Active
US7546417B1 Method and system for reducing cache tag bits Physics 8 Active
US9999788B2 Fast and accurate proton therapy dose calculations Physics 6 Active
US8209488B2 Techniques for prediction-based indirect data prefetching Physics 6 Active
US8161264B2 Techniques for data prefetching using indirect addressing with offset Physics 6 Active
US8166277B2 Data prefetching using indirect addressing Physics 5 Active
US7506119B2 Complier assisted victim cache bypassing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7698508B2 System and method for reducing unnecessary cache operations Physics 4 Active
US8250298B2 Mechanisms for reducing DRAM power consumption Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8140768B2 Jump starting prefetch streams across page boundaries Physics 4 Active

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