Multiple simultaneous context architecture

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2011-07-12

2011-07-12

Coleman, Eric (Department: 2183)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Processing control

Instruction modification based on condition

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07979683

ABSTRACT:
Graphics processing elements are capable of processing multiple contexts simultaneously, reducing the need to perform time consuming context switches compared with processing a single context at a time. Processing elements of a graphics processing pipeline may be configured to support all of the multiple contexts or only a portion of the multiple contexts. Each processing element may be allocated to process a particular context or a portion of the multiple contexts in order to simultaneously process more than one context. The allocation of processing elements to the multiple contexts may be determined dynamically in order to improve graphics processing throughput.

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