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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2011
Timothy Paul Lottes Farrar, San Jose, CA (US);
Ignacio Llamas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel Elliot Wexler, Soda Springs, CA (US);
Craig Ross Duttweiler, San Carlos, CA (US);
Timothy Paul Lottes Farrar, San Jose, CA (US);
Ignacio Llamas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel Elliot Wexler, Soda Springs, CA (US);
Craig Ross Duttweiler, San Carlos, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for launching work on a processor. The method includes the steps of initializing a first state object within a memory region accessible to a program executing on the processor, populating the first state object with data associated with a first workload that is generated by the program, and triggering the processing of the first workload on the processor according to the data within the first state object.