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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aaftab Munshi, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Nathaniel Begeman, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 8/41 (2018.01); G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 3/00 (2013.01); G06F 8/41 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2013.01); G06F 9/46 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06F 9/5044 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); G06F 2209/509 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5018 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for a parallel computing program calling APIs (application programming interfaces) in a host processor to perform a data processing task in parallel among compute units are described. The compute units are coupled to the host processor including central processing units (CPUs) and graphic processing units (GPUs). A program object corresponding to a source code for the data processing task is generated in a memory coupled to the host processor according to the API calls. Executable codes for the compute units are generated from the program object according to the API calls to be loaded for concurrent execution among the compute units to perform the data processing task.


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