公开(公告)号：US10891773B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-12

申请号：US15482677

申请日：2017-04-07

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Joydeep Ray ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Pattabhiraman K ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Altug Koker ,  Niranjan L. Cooray ,  Josh B. Mastronarde

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G09G5/36 ,  G09G5/00 ,  G09G5/393 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06T15/04 ,  G06T15/80 ,  G06T17/10 ,  G06T17/20

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for allocating local memories to virtual machines. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a command streamer to queue commands from a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) or applications, the commands to be distributed from the command streamer and executed by graphics processing resources of a graphics processing unit (GPU); a tile cache to store graphics data associated with the plurality of VMs or applications as the commands are executed by the graphics processing resources; and tile cache allocation hardware logic to allocate a first portion of the tile cache to a first VM or application and a second portion of the tile cache to a second VM or application; the tile cache allocation hardware logic to further allocate a first region in system memory to store spill-over data when the first portion of the tile cache and/or the second portion of the file cache becomes full.

公开(公告)号：US10860468B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US16379137

申请日：2019-04-09

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Altug Koker ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Niranjan L. Cooray ,  Abhishek R. Appu

IPC: G06F12/00 ,  G06F12/0875 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06F12/0811

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate guaranteed forward progress for graphics data is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of ports to receive and transmit streams of graphics data, one or more buffers associated with each of the plurality of ports to store the graphics data and switching logic to virtually partition each of the one or more buffers to allocate a dedicated buffer to receive each of a plurality of independent streams of graphics data.

公开(公告)号：US10853906B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16197821

申请日：2018-11-21

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall ,  Sara S. Baghsorkhi ,  Anbang Yao ,  Kevin Nealis ,  Xiaoming Chen ,  Altug Koker ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  John C. Weast ,  Mike B. Macpherson ,  Dukhwan Kim ,  Linda L. Hurd ,  Ben J. Ashbaugh ,  Barath Lakshmanan ,  Liwei Ma ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Ping T. Tang ,  Michael S. Strickland

IPC: G06T1/20 ,  G06F7/483 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/063 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06T15/00

Abstract: One embodiment provides an accelerator module comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies; a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled with the memory stack via one or more memory controllers, the GPU including a plurality of multiprocessors having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the multiprocessors to execute at least one single instruction. The at least one single instruction is to cause at least a portion of the GPU to perform a floating point operation on input having differing precisions. The floating point operation is a two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operation.

公开(公告)号：US20200334200A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16869223

申请日：2020-05-07

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Altug Koker ,  Prasoonkumar Surti ,  David Puffer ,  Subramaniam Maiyuran ,  Guei-Yuan Lueh ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Tomer Bar-On ,  Andrew T. Lauritzen ,  Hugues Labbe ,  John G. Gierach ,  Gabor Liktor

IPC: G06F16/13 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F16/11 ,  G06F16/172 ,  G06F9/46

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first memory communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first shared memory is shared by the plurality of execution units and a copy engine to copy context state data from at least a first of the plurality of execution units to the first shared memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20200327635A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-15

申请号：US16714862

申请日：2019-12-16

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Altug Koker ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Joydeep Ray ,  James A. Valerio ,  Abhishek R. Appu

IPC: G06T1/20 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: One embodiment provides for a general-purpose graphics processing unit comprising a processing array including multiple compute blocks, each compute block including multiple processing clusters and a thread dispatch unit to dispatch threads of a workload to the multiple compute blocks based on a parallelism metric, wherein the thread dispatch unit, based on the parallelism metric, is to perform one of a first operation and a second operation, the first operation to distribute threads across the multiple compute blocks and the second operation is to concentrate threads within one of the multiple compute blocks.

公开(公告)号：US10802970B1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US16366266

申请日：2019-03-27

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Niranjan L. Cooray ,  Altug Koker ,  Vidhya Krishnan ,  Ronald W. Silvas ,  John H. Feit ,  Prasoonkumar Surti ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Abhishek R. Appu

IPC: G06F12/0837 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06F16/907 ,  H04L9/06 ,  G06F12/0811

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to allocate a first memory space for data for a graphics workload, the first memory comprising a first plurality of addressable memory locations, allocate a second memory space for compression metadata relating to the data for the graphics workload, the second memory space comprising a second plurality of addressable memory locations and having an amount of memory corresponding to a predetermined ratio of the amount of memory allocated to first memory space, and configure a direct memory mapping between the first plurality of addressable memory locations and the second plurality of addressable memory locations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20200294182A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-17

申请号：US16355573

申请日：2019-03-15

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Varghese George ,  Altug Koker ,  Aravindh Anantaraman ,  Subramaniam Maiyuran ,  SungYe Kim ,  Valentin Andrei ,  Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Nicolas C. Galoppo von Borries ,  Prasoonkumar Surti ,  Mike Macpherson

IPC: G06T1/20 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06F16/17

Abstract: Apparatuses including general-purpose graphics processing units having on chip dense memory for temporal buffering are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor includes a plurality of compute engines to perform first computations to generate a first set of data, cache for storing data, and a high density memory that is integrated on chip with the plurality of compute engines and the cache. The high density memory to receive the first set of data, to temporarily store the first set of data, and to provide the first set of data to the cache during a first time period that is prior to a second time period when the plurality of compute engines will use the first set of data for second computations.

公开(公告)号：US10769083B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-08

申请号：US16540477

申请日：2019-08-14

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Altug Koker ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Vasanth Ranganathan ,  Abhishek R. Appu

IPC: G06F13/16 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate source synchronous signaling is disclosed. The apparatus includes transfer protocol logic to provide for source synchronous transfer of data within an interconnect fabric, including one or more synchronizers having logic to a transmit data signal and a source clock (clk) signal during the transfer of data.

公开(公告)号：US20200241622A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-30

申请号：US16782791

申请日：2020-02-05

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Abhishek R. Appu ,  Altug Koker ,  Eric J. Hoekstra ,  Kiran C. Veernapu ,  Prasoonkumar Surti ,  Vasanth Ranganathan ,  Kamal Sinha ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Eric J. Asperheim ,  Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar ,  Joydeep Ray

IPC: G06F1/3225 ,  G06F1/3234

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to receive data for a current write operation to a memory, determine a number of bits in the received data for the current write operation to the memory which have changed from a previous write operation to the memory and in response to a determination that the number of bits in the received data for the current write operation to the memory which have changed from a previous write operation to the memory exceeds a threshold, to toggle a plurality of bits in the data for the current write operation to create an encoded data set and set an indicator bit to a value which indicates that the plurality of bits have been toggled. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US10725929B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-28

申请号：US15483741

申请日：2017-04-10

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Jianfang Zhu ,  Cristiano J. Ferreira ,  Bo Qiu ,  Ajit Krisshna Nandyal Lakshman ,  Nikhil Talpallikar ,  Deepak Gandiga Shivakumar ,  Brandt M. Guttridge ,  Kim Pallister ,  Frank J. Soqui ,  Anand Srivatsa ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Ankur N. Shah ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Altug Koker ,  Jonathan Kennedy

IPC: G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F13/28 ,  G06F12/10 ,  G06F12/0875 ,  G06F12/0811 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/06 ,  G06F12/02 ,  G06F12/109

Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, system memory communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics processor communicatively coupled to the application processor, graphics memory communicatively coupled to the graphics processor, and persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics processor to store one or more graphics assets, wherein the graphics processor is to access the one or more graphics asset mapped from the persistent storage media. The persistent storage media may include a low latency, high capacity, and byte-addressable nonvolatile memory. The one or more graphics assets may include one or more of a mega-texture and terrain data. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.