Computing device, computing apparatus and method of warp accumulation

Abstract

The embodiments of the disclosure relate to a computing device, a computing apparatus, and a method of warp accumulation and relate to the field of computers. The computing device includes a storage unit and an accumulation computing unit coupled to the storage unit. The accumulation computing unit is configured to receive, from a vector processing unit coupled to the computing device, a first warp accumulation instruction, a plurality of first values corresponding to a warp lane number, and a first storage address; generate a current accumulation result based on the plurality of first values in response to the first warp accumulation instruction; and store the current accumulation result in the first storage address in the storage unit to be read by the vector processing unit. In this way, accumulation in a warp may be decoupled to dedicated hardware for processing, and overall accumulation performance may thus be significantly improved.

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