Intel Corporation
COMPUTING EFFICIENT CROSS CHANNEL OPERATIONS IN PARALLEL COMPUTING MACHINES USING SYSTOLIC ARRAYS

Abstract:

An apparatus to facilitate computing efficient cross channel operations in parallel computing machines using systolic arrays is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of registers and one or more processing elements communicably coupled to the plurality of registers. The one or more processing elements include a systolic array circuit to perform cross-channel operations on source data received from a single source register of the plurality of registers, wherein the systolic array circuit is modified to: receive inputs from the single source register at different stages of the systolic array circuit; perform cross-channel operations at channels of the systolic array circuit; bypass disabled channels of the systolic array circuit, the disabled channels not used to compute the cross-channel operations; and broadcast a final result of a final stage of the systolic array circuit to all channels of a destination register.