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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2005
Bryon S. Nordquist, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Bryon S. Nordquist, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention facilitate distributing processing tasks within a processor. In one embodiment, processing clusters keep track of resource requirements. If sufficient resources are available within a particular processing cluster, the available processing cluster asserts a ready signal to a dispatch unit. The dispatch unit is configured to pass a processing task (such as a cooperative thread array or CTA) to an available processing cluster that asserted a ready signal. In another embodiment, a processing task is passed around a ring of processing clusters until a processing cluster with sufficient resources available accepts the processing task.