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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2009
Weidong Zhao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yegnaswamy R. Sermadevi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cheng Chang, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric S. Christoffersen, Beaux Arts, WA (US);
Weidong Zhao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yegnaswamy R. Sermadevi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cheng Chang, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric S. Christoffersen, Beaux Arts, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Parallel programming and execution systems and techniques are discussed herein. In accordance with one technique, a parallel programming model is used to decompose a complex process into parallelizable tasks with proper dependencies set by data objects as interfaces. Another technique features a scheduling mechanism that provides thread affinity and automatic load-balance management among an assortment of processing units such as CPUSs/CPU cores, GPUs/GPU cores, and/or hardware threads in a scalable manner. The models and techniques are applied in an exemplary manner to a digital media encoding process.