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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2007
Applicants:
Samuli M. Laine, Vantaa, FI;
Timo O. Aila, Tuusula, FI;
Mark J. Harris, London, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/52 (2013.01); G06F 9/3001 (2013.01); G06F 9/30029 (2013.01); G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/3885 (2013.01); G06F 9/522 (2013.01); G06F 17/30988 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for efficiently performing a scan operation. In use, an array of elements is traversed by utilizing a parallel processor architecture. Such parallel processor architecture includes a plurality of processors each capable of physically executing a predetermined number of threads in parallel. For efficiency purposes, the predetermined number of threads of at least one of the processors may be executed to perform a scan operation involving a number of the elements that is a function (e.g. multiple, etc.) of the predetermined number of threads.