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Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Julia A. Gould, San Jose, CA (US);

Haihua Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06F 9/5066 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques to saturate a graphics processing unit (GPU) with independent threads from multiple kernels are described. An apparatus may include a graphics processing unit driver for a graphics processing unit having a first partition including a first plurality of execution units and a second partition including a second plurality of execution units, the graphics processing unit driver to dispatch one or more threads of a first kernel to the first partition and to dispatch one or more threads of a second kernel to the second partition to increase a utilization of the plurality of execution units and avoid hardware resource competition.


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