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Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2010
Applicants:

John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);

Stephen D. Lew, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);

Stephen D. Lew, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Parallel data processing systems and methods use cooperative thread arrays (CTAs), i.e., groups of multiple threads that concurrently execute the same program on an input data set to produce an output data set. Each thread in a CTA has a unique identifier (thread ID) that can be assigned at thread launch time. The thread ID controls various aspects of the thread's processing behavior such as the portion of the input data set to be processed by each thread, the portion of an output data set to be produced by each thread, and/or sharing of intermediate results among threads. Mechanisms for loading and launching CTAs in a representative processing core and for synchronizing threads within a CTA are also described.


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Nickolls, John. (2012). Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays with unique thread identifiers as an input to compute an identifier of a location in a shared memory (U.S. Patent No. 8112614). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8112614

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