Patent ID: 11954580
Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The system of claim 2, wherein the cluster-level controller in the given cluster is further configured to:
receive a second multi-cycle instruction;
determine, based on the second multi-cycle instruction, (1) a second sequence of vector operations to be executed by the tensor processors in the given cluster and (2) address information usable to determine the respective spatial partition of an input tensor on which each tensor processor in the given cluster is to operate when performing each vector operation in the second sequence of vector operations; and
for each vector operation in the second sequence of vector operations:
generate, based on the address information, a common address offset, relative to a respective base address associated with each tensor processor in the given cluster, at which each tensor processor is to retrieve the respective spatial partition of the input tensor on which the tensor processor is to operate;
multicast the common address offset to the tensor processors in the given cluster; and
control the tensor processors in the given cluster to execute the vector operation in lock step.