Alibaba Group Holding Limited
ACCELERATION UNIT AND RELATED APPARATUS AND METHOD

Abstract:

The present disclosure provides an acceleration unit, and a related apparatus and method. The acceleration unit includes: one or more number theoretic transform units adapted to perform number theoretic transform during homomorphic encryption; one or more arithmetic logic units adapted to perform an arithmetic operation during homomorphic encryption; and a scheduler adapted to assign an operation in a to-be-executed homomorphic encryption instruction to at least one of the one or more number theoretic transform units and at least one of the one or more arithmetic logic units. Embodiments of the present disclosure improve versatility, global performance, and scalability of deployment of homomorphic encryption hardware.