- Patent Title: Power consumption reduction circuit for GPUs in server, and server
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Application No.: US17791310Application Date: 2020-09-24
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Publication No.: US11656674B2Publication Date: 2023-05-23
- Inventor: Peng Wang , Shichao Cheng , Longling Sun , Wenyu Liu , Mingyang Ye
- Applicant: SUZHOU INSPUR INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: CN Jiangsu
- Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: CN Jiangsu
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Priority: CN 2010300844.3 2020.04.16
- International Application: PCT/CN2020/117277 2020.09.24
- International Announcement: WO2021/208360A 2021.10.21
- Date entered country: 2022-07-07
- Main IPC: G06F1/3234
- IPC: G06F1/3234 ; G06T1/20 ; G06F1/3206 ; G06F1/26 ; G06F1/324

Abstract:
Disclosed are a power consumption reduction circuit for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in a server and a server. The power consumption reduction circuit includes a frequency reduction control chip. The frequency reduction control chip, after receiving an overpower alarm signal generated by a Power Supply Unit (PSU), generates a frequency reduction control signal to a Power Break (PWRBRK) pin of each GPU so as to start a frequency reduction operation of each GPU. It can be seen that, in the present application, an underlying hardware circuit is directly used for implementation with relatively quick responses and without intervention of an operating system, whereby the whole frequency reduction operation of the GPU may be completed within 5 ms, and the PSU is prevented from triggering overpower protection within relatively short time. Therefore, loss of service data of a user caused by an exceptional power failure of the server is avoided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230035371A1 POWER CONSUMPTION REDUCTION CIRCUIT FOR GPUS IN SERVER, AND SERVER Public/Granted day:2023-02-02
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