Scalable and unified compute system

A method for computing, comprising:

• receiving, using a processor, a set of texture requests for a specified set of pixels, vertices, primitives, surfaces, or compute work items;
• generating, using the processor, a data set of addresses based on a shader program instruction for the specified set of pixels, vertices, primitives, surfaces, or compute work items;
• retrieving, using the processor, stored texel data from a level one cache system;
• and
• calculating, using the processor, a formatted accumulated interpolation based on the retrieved texel data and an originating shader instruction, further comprising:
• receiving floating point texel data;
• generating normalized fixed point texel data from the floating point texel data;
• performing an interpolation on the normalized fixed point texel data;
• generating re-normalized floating point texel data;
• accumulating re-normalized texel data;
• and
• formatting the accumulated re-normalized texel data into a standard floating point representation.

A system for computing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory, in communication with the processor, configured to store a plurality of processing instructions for directing a computing system to:
• receive a set of texture requests for a specified set of pixels, vertices, primitives, surfaces, or compute work items;
• generate a data set of addresses based on a shader program instruction for the specified set of pixels, vertices, primitives, surfaces, or compute work items;
• retrieve stored texel data from a level one cache system;
• and
• calculate a formatted accumulated interpolation based on the retrieved texel data and an originating shader instruction, further comprising instructions for causing the computing system to:
• receive floating point texel data;
• generate normalized fixed point texel data from the floating point texel data;
• perform an interpolation on the normalized fixed point texel data;
• generate re-normalized floating point texel data;
• accumulate re-normalized texel data;
• and
• format the accumulated re-normalized texel data into a standard floating point representation.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions execution of which by one or more processor-based computing devices cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method of computing, the method performing operations comprising:

• receiving a set of texture requests for a specified set of pixels, vertices, primitives, surfaces, or compute work items;
• generating a data set of addresses based on a shader program instruction for the specified set of pixels, vertices, primitives, surfaces, or compute work items;
• retrieving stored texel data from a level one cache system;
• and
• calculating a formatted accumulated interpolation based on the retrieved texel data and;
• an originating shader instruction, further comprising:
• receiving floating point texel data;
• generating normalized fixed point texel data from the floating point texel data;
• performing an interpolation on the normalized fixed point texel data generating re-normalized floating point texel data;
• accumulating re-normalized texel data;
• and
• formatting the accumulated re-normalized texel data into a standard floating point representation.