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| 20090249026 | Vector instructions to enable efficient synchronization and parallel reduction operations - In one embodiment, a processor may include a vector unit to perform operations on multiple data elements responsive to a single instruction, and a control unit coupled to the vector unit to provide the data elements to the vector unit, where the control unit is to enable an atomic vector operation to be performed on at least some of the data elements responsive to a first vector instruction to be executed under a first mask and a second vector instruction to be executed under a second mask. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100005241 | DETECTION OF STREAMING DATA IN CACHE - An apparatus to detect streaming data in memory is presented. In one embodiment the apparatus use reuse bits and S-bits status for cache lines wherein an S-bit status indicates the data in the cache line are potentially streaming data. To enhance the efficiency of a cache, different measures can be applied to make the streaming data become the next victim during a replacement. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100073368 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE CONSERVATIVE VIEW CELL OCCLUSION - Methods and systems to determine view cell occlusion, including to project objects of a 3-dimensional graphics environment to a 2-dimensional image plane with respect to the view point, to reduce sizes of corresponding object images, to generate an occluder map from the reduced-size object images, to compare at least a portion of the object images to the occluder map, and to identify an object as occluded with respect to the view cell when pixel depth values of the object image are greater than corresponding pixel depth values of the occluder map. Methods and systems to reduce an object image size include methods and systems to nullify pixel depth values within a radius of an edge pixel, and to determine the radius as a distance from the edge pixel to a second pixel so that a line between the view point and the second pixel is parallel with one or more of a line and a plane that is tangential to a sphere enclosing the view cell and a point on the object that corresponds to the edge pixel. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100138607 | Increasing concurrency and controlling replication in a multi-core cache hierarchy - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a directory of a private cache hierarchy to maintain coherency between data stored in the cache hierarchy, where the directory is to enable concurrent cache-to-cache transfer of data to two private caches. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100146209 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING INDEPENDENT DATA CACHES - Methods, apparatus, computer programs and systems related to combining independent data caches are described. Various implementations can dynamically aggregate multiple level-one (L1) data caches from distinct processors together, change the degree of interleaving (e.g., how much consecutive data is mapped to each participating data cache before addresses go on to the next one) among the cache banks, and retain the ability to subsequently adjust the number of data caches participating as one coherent cache, i.e., the degree of interleaving, such as when the requirements of an application or process change. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100153649 | SHARED CACHE MEMORIES FOR MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS - Embodiments of shared cache memories for multi-core processors are presented. In one embodiment, a cache memory comprises a group of sampling cache sets and a controller to determine a number of misses that occur in the group of sampling cache sets. The controller is operable to determine a victim cache line for a cache set based at least in part on the number of misses. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110025700 | Using a Texture Unit for General Purpose Computing - An interpolation unit, such as may be found in a texture unit or texture sampler, may be used utilized to perform general purpose mathematical computations such as dot products. This enables some general purpose computations and operations to be offloaded from a central processing unit to an interpolation unit. The interpolation unit may use linear interpolators in order to perform the dot product calculations. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110078340 | VIRTUAL ROW BUFFERS FOR USE WITH RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY - Methods, apparatuses and systems to decrease the energy consumption of a memory chip while increasing its effect bandwidth during the execution of any workload. Methods, apparatuses and systems may allow a memory chip utilize a plurality of virtual row buffers to respond to requests for data included in a memory array block. Methods, apparatuses and systems may further eliminate or reduce the cost associated with transferring unnecessary data from a memory array block to row buffers by altering the data transfer size between a memory array block and a row buffer. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110134137 | Texture Unit for General Purpose Computing - A texture unit may be used utilized to perform general purpose mathematical computations such as dot products. This enables some general purpose computations and operations to be offloaded from a central processing unit to the texture unit. The texture unit may use linear interpolators in order to perform the dot product calculations. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138122 | GATHER AND SCATTER OPERATIONS IN MULTI-LEVEL MEMORY HIERARCHY - Methods and apparatus relating to gather or scatter operations in a multi-level cache are described. In some embodiments, a logic may determine whether to perform gather or scatter operations at a first memory or a second memory, based in part on a relative performance of performing the gather or scatter operations at the first memory and the second memory. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110148896 | Grouping Pixels to be Textured - A region or group of pixels may be textured as a unit, using a range specifier and one or more anchor pixels to define the group. In some embodiments, processing grouped pixels improves efficiency. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161060 | Optimization-Based exact formulation and solution of crowd simulation in virtual worlds - A method of computing a collision-free velocity ( | 06-30-2011 |
