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Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2011
Applicants:

Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Timothy John Purcell, Provo, UT (US);

Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Philip Alexander Cuadra, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Timothy John Purcell, Provo, UT (US);

Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Philip Alexander Cuadra, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4843 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for error-checking a compute task. The technique involves receiving a pointer to a compute task, storing the pointer in a scheduling queue, determining that the compute task should be executed, retrieving the pointer from the scheduling queue, determining via an error-check procedure that the compute task is eligible for execution, and executing the compute task.


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