Near-memory accelerator for offloading pointer chasing operations from a processing element
US9946659B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 16, 2015 |
| Grant date | Apr 17, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/60
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments include a near-memory acceleration method for offloading data traversal operations from a processing element. The method is implemented at a near-memory accelerator configured to interact with each of the processing element and a memory used by the processing element. The accelerator performs the data traversal operations to chase pointers, in order to identify a pointer to data to be processed by the processing element. The data traversal operations are performed based on indications from the processing element. In addition, data needed to perform the data traversal operations are fetched by the near-memory accelerator, from the memory. The present invention is further directed to a near-memory accelerator and a computerized system comprising such an accelerator, as well as a computer program product.
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