Patent 10331632 was granted and assigned to NVIDIA on June, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for modifying a hierarchical tree data structure. An initial hierarchical tree data structure is received and treelets of node neighborhoods in the initial hierarchical tree data structure are formed. Each treelet includes n leaf nodes and n−1 internal nodes. The treelets are restructured, by a processor, to produce an optimized hierarchical tree data structure.