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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2012
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Cass W. Everitt, Round Rock, TX (US);
Roger L. Allen, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Gary M. Tarolli, Concord, MA (US);
John M. Danskin, Cranston, RI (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Cass W. Everitt, Round Rock, TX (US);
Roger L. Allen, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Gary M. Tarolli, Concord, MA (US);
John M. Danskin, Cranston, RI (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system is disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for managing a plurality of independently processed texture streams in a parallel rendering system that includes the steps of maintaining a time stamp for a group of tiles of work that are associated with each of the plurality of the texture streams and are associated with a specified area in screen space, and utilizing the time stamps to counter divergences in the independent processing of the plurality of texture streams.