Google patents method for splitting computer tasks across devices
Google describes a system that takes a complex set of instructions, called a computational graph, and breaks it into smaller pieces. The system then assigns these pieces to different available hardware devices to process them efficiently.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- PROCESSING COMPUTATIONAL GRAPHS
- Publication number
- US20260267705A1
- Application number
- 19669695
- Filed
- May 6, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
G06F 9/5038 Physics & computingG06F 9/5066 Physics & computingG06F 18/2323 Physics & computingG06N 3/098 Physics & computingG06N 7/01 Physics & computingG06N 20/00 Physics & computingMore from Google in AI & software
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