System and method for unified application programming interface and model

Abstract

Systems, computer readable media, and methods for a unified programming interface and language are disclosed. In one embodiment, the unified programming interface and language assists program developers write multi-threaded programs that can perform both graphics and data-parallel compute processing on GPUs. The same GPU programming language model can be used to describe both graphics shaders and compute kernels, and the same data structures and resources may be used for both graphics and compute operations. Developers can use multithreading efficiently to create and submit command buffers in parallel.

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[0001] Copyright Notice [0002] Part of the disclosure of this patent document contains materials protected by (copyright or mask work). Since this patent document or the patent disclosure appears in the patent documents or records of the Patent and Trademark Office, the owner of the (copyright or mask work) does not object to anyone copying this patent document or the patent disclosure, but will use other The method reserves all (copyright or mask works) rights in any form. Background technique [0003] The present disclosure as a whole relates to the field of computer programming. More specifically, but in a non-limiting manner, the present disclosure relates to a programming interface and language for programming a core for execution on a graphics processor unit. [0004] Graphics processing unit (GPU) has become increasingly important for processing data parallel graphics tasks. Developers have also realized that non-graphics data parallel tasks can be processed by GPU using ...

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However, these high-level APIs have led to performance degradation, as well as inconvenient combination of graphics and compute data-parallel tasks due to the need to use different APIs for each type of task

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