Intel Corporation
HANDLING PIPELINE SUBMISSIONS ACROSS MANY COMPUTE UNITS

Abstract:

One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising an interconnect fabric comprising one or more fabric switches, a plurality of memory interfaces coupled to the interconnect fabric to provide access to a plurality of memory devices, an input/output (IO) interface coupled to the interconnect fabric to provide access to IO devices, an array of multiprocessors coupled to the interconnect fabric, scheduling circuitry to distribute a plurality of thread groups across the array of multiprocessors, each thread group comprising a plurality of threads and each thread comprising a plurality of instructions to be executed by at least one of the multiprocessors, and a first multiprocessor of the array of multiprocessors to be assigned to process a first thread group comprising a first plurality of threads, the first multiprocessor comprising a plurality of parallel execution circuits.