Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Graphics processor with non-blocking concurrent architecture
- Patent Title (中): 具有非阻塞并发架构的图形处理器
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Application No.: US13567091Application Date: 2012-08-06
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Publication No.: US08692834B2Publication Date: 2014-04-08
- Inventor: Luke Tilman Peterson , James Alexander McCombe , Steven John Clohset , Jason Rupert Redgrave
- Applicant: Luke Tilman Peterson , James Alexander McCombe , Steven John Clohset , Jason Rupert Redgrave
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Caustic Graphics, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Caustic Graphics, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agent Michael S. Garrabrants
- Main IPC: G06F15/80
- IPC: G06F15/80 ; G06F15/00 ; G06T1/00

Abstract:
In some aspects, systems and methods provide for forming groupings of a plurality of independently-specified computation workloads, such as graphics processing workloads, and in a specific example, ray tracing workloads. The workloads include a scheduling key, which is one basis on which the groupings can be formed. Workloads grouped together can all execute from the same source of instructions, one or more different private data elements. Such workloads can recursively instantiate other workloads that reference the same private data elements. In some examples, the scheduling key can be used to identify a data element to be used by all the workloads of a grouping. Memory conflicts to private data elements are handled through scheduling of non-conflicted workloads or specific instructions an deferring conflicted workloads instead of locking memory locations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130222402A1 Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture Public/Granted day:2013-08-29
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