Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate thread scheduling is disclosed. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a processor comprising a plurality of multiprocessors comprising single-instruction multiple thread (SIMT) execution circuitry to simultaneously execute multiple threads, a shared local memory to be shared by the multiple threads, and scheduling hardware logic to schedule the multiple threads in a thread group for execution across the plurality of multiprocessors in accordance with barrier data. The instructions of the multiple threads are to produce shared data to be stored in the shared local memory when executed by the plurality of multiprocessors, wherein additional instructions of at least a first thread of the multiple threads are to use the shared data, and wherein, in accordance with the barrier data, the first thread is to wait for other threads of the multiple threads to finish producing the shared data before executing the additional instructions.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate control flow in a graphics processing system is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic a plurality of execution units to execute single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) and flow control logic to detect a diverging control flow in a plurality of SIMD channels and reduce the execution of the control flow to a subset of the SIMD channels.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for dynamic provisioning, quality of service, and prioritization in a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a plurality of graphics processing resources; slice configuration hardware logic to logically subdivide the graphics processing resources into a plurality of slices; and slice allocation hardware logic to allocate a designated number of slices to each virtual machine (VM) of a plurality of VMs running in a virtualized execution environment, the slice allocation hardware logic to allocate different numbers of slices to different VMs based on graphics processing requirements and/or priorities of each of the VMs.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate partitioning of a graphics device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of engines and logic to partition the plurality of engines to facilitate independent access to each engine within the plurality of engines.

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, the render rate is varied across and/or up and down the display screen. This may be done based on where the user is looking in order to reduce power consumption and/or increase performance. Specifically the screen display is separated into regions, such as quadrants. Each of these regions is rendered at a rate determined by at least one of what the user is currently looking at, what the user has looked at in the past and/or what it is predicted that the user will look at next. Areas of less focus may be rendered at a lower rate, reducing power consumption in some embodiments.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate thread scheduling is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic to store barrier usage data based on a magnitude of barrier messages in an application kernel and a scheduler to schedule execution of threads across a plurality of multiprocessors based on the barrier usage data.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for scalable error reporting. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises error detection circuitry to detect an error in a component of a first tile within a tile-based hierarchy of a processing device; error classification circuitry to classify the error and record first error data based on the classification; a first tile interface to combine the first error data with second error data received from one or more other components associated with the first tile to generate first accumulated error data; and a master tile interface to combine the first accumulated error data with second accumulated error data received from at least one other tile interface to generate second accumulated error data and to provide the second accumulated error data to a host executing an application to process the second accumulated error data.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic merging of atomic operations in computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating detecting atomic messages and a plurality of slot addresses. The method further includes comparing one or more slot addresses of the plurality of slot addresses with other slot addresses of the plurality of slot addresses to seek one or more matched slot addresses, where the one or more matched slot addresses are merged into one or more merged groups. The method may further include generating one or more merged atomic operations based on and corresponding to the one or more merged groups.

Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a processor, memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a collaboration engine communicatively coupled to the processor to identify a shared graphics component between two or more users in an environment, and share the shared graphics components with the two or more users in the environment. Embodiments of the collaboration engine may include one or more of a centralized sharer, a depth sharer, a shared preprocessor, a multi-port graphics subsystem, and a decode sharer. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

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 monitor a thread switching overhead parameter for an application executing in a processing system and in response to a determination that the thread switching overhead parameter exceeds a threshold, to activate a thread management algorithm to reduce thread switching in the processing system. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic cache allocation in computing devices in computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating monitoring one or more bandwidth consumptions of one or more clients accessing a cache associated with a processor; computing one or more bandwidth requirements of the one or more clients based on the one or more bandwidth consumptions; and allocating one or more portions of the cache to the one or more clients in accordance with the one or more bandwidth requirements.

Abstract: Generation and storage of compressed z-planes in graphics processing is described. An example of a processor includes a rasterizer to generate a fragment of pixel data including blocks of pixel data; a depth pipeline to receive the fragment, the pipeline including a first and second depth test hardware, the first depth test hardware to perform a coarse depth test including determining minimum and maximum depths for each block; and a depth buffer, wherein the processor is to determine whether the fragment meets requirements that the fragment fully covers a tile of pixel data and passes a first depth test, and that each of the minimum and maximum depths of the fragment has a same sign and exponent, and, upon determining that the fragment meets the requirements, to generate a compressed depth plane utilizing the first depth test and update the depth buffer with the compressed depth plane.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality and virtual reality (VR/AR) environment information. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to selectively suppress and enhance VR/AR renderings of n-dimensional environments. The systems, apparatuses and methods may deepen a user's VR/AR experience by focusing on particular feedback information, while suppressing other feedback information from the environment.

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first general register file (GRF) communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first GRF is shared by the plurality of execution units. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating using of a shared local memory for register spilling/filling relating to graphics processors at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes reserving one or more spaces of a shared local memory (SLM) to perform one or more of spilling and filling relating to registers associated with a graphics processor of a computing device.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating inference coordination and processing utilization for machine learning. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes limiting execution of workloads for the respective contexts of a plurality of contexts to a specified subset of a plurality of processing resources of a processing system according to physical resource slices of the processing system that are associated with the respective contexts of the plurality of contexts.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a memory controller and a graphics processing resource coupled with the memory controller. The graphics processing resource includes circuitry configured to execute an instruction to perform a matrix operation on first input including weight data and second input including input activation data, generate intermediate data based on a result of the matrix operation, quantize the intermediate data to a floating-point format determined based on a statistical distribution of first output data, and output, as second output data, quantized intermediate data in a determined floating-point format.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating barriers and synchronization for machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting thread groups relating to machine learning associated with one or more processing devices. The method may further include facilitating barrier synchronization of the thread groups across multiple dies such that each thread in a thread group is scheduled across a set of compute elements associated with the multiple dies, where each die represents a processing device of the one or more processing devices, the processing device including a graphics processor.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a graphics processor including a plurality of processing clusters, each processing cluster including a plurality of multiprocessors and a data interconnect coupled to the plurality of multiprocessors. At least one multiprocessor of the plurality of multiprocessors is configured to share data with another multiprocessor over the data interconnect.

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to create a scatter gather list in memory and collect a plurality of operating statistics for the plurality of execution units using the scatter gather list. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.