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AssigneeNVIDIA Corporation
InventorsJohn Erik Lindholm, Rui M. Bastos, Harold Robert Feldman Zatz
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A graphics processor and method for executing a graphics program as a plurality of threads where each sample to be processed by the program is assigned to a thread. Although threads share processing resources within the programmable graphics processor, the execution of each thread can proceed independent of any other threads. For example, instructions in a second thread are scheduled for execution while execution of instructions in a first thread are stalled waiting for source data. Consequently, a first received sample (assigned to the first thread) may be processed after a second received sample (assigned to the second thread). A benefit of independently executing each thread is improved performance because a stalled thread does not prevent the execution of other threads.
A method of rendering a scene using a graphics processor comprising:
A graphics processor for multithreaded execution of program instructions comprising:
A computing system comprising:
A method of processing a first program instruction associated with a first thread and a second program instruction associated with a second thread comprising:
A method of using a function call to configure a graphics processor comprising:
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