Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Checkpointing
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Application No.: US17651012Application Date: 2022-02-14
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Publication No.: US11768735B2Publication Date: 2023-09-26
- Inventor: David Lacey , Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson
- Applicant: Graphcore Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Bristol
- Assignee: GRAPHCORE LIMITED
- Current Assignee: GRAPHCORE LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Bristol
- Agency: HAYNES AND BOONE LLP
- Priority: GB 04628 2019.04.02
- Main IPC: G06F11/14
- IPC: G06F11/14 ; G06F9/52 ; G06F11/36

Abstract:
A system comprising: a first subsystem comprising at least one first processor, and a second subsystem comprising one or more second processors. A first program is arranged to run on the at least one first processor, the first program being configured to send data from the first subsystem to the second subsystem. A second program is arranged to run on the one more second processors, the second program being configured to operate on the data content from the first subsystem. The first program is configured to set a checkpoint at one or more points in time. At each checkpoint it records in memory of the first subsystem i) a program state of the second program, comprising a state of one or more registers on each of the second processors at the time of the checkpoint, and ii) a copy of the data content sent to the second subsystem since the respective checkpoint.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220164255A1 Checkpointing Public/Granted day:2022-05-26
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