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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2006
Ralf Biermann, Aachen, DE;
Barthold B. Lichtenbelt, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Ross A. Cunniff, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jeffrey F. Juliano, Cary, NC (US);
Jeffrey A. Bolz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ralf Biermann, Aachen, DE;
Barthold B. Lichtenbelt, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Ross A. Cunniff, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jeffrey F. Juliano, Cary, NC (US);
Jeffrey A. Bolz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for distributing the workload of rendering an image where texture mapping is involved among multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) are provided. The method generally entails dividing a texture map among multiple GPUs, performing texture mapping in each GPU to render image data in each GPU's frame buffer, combining the image data from each frame buffer, and scanning out the combined image to a display.