Patents by Inventor Arthur Merlin Danskin

Arthur Merlin Danskin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Cooperative thread array granularity context switch during trap handling
    Patent number: 10095542
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for restoring threads within a processing core. The techniques include, for a first thread group included in a plurality of thread groups, executing a context restore routine to restore from a memory a first portion of a context associated with the first thread group, determining whether the first thread group completed an assigned function, and, if the first thread group completed the assigned function, then exiting the context restore routine, or if the first thread group did not complete the assigned function, then executing one or more operations associated with a trap handler routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gerald F. Luiz, Philip Alexander Cuadra, Luke Durant, Shirish Gadre, Robert Ohannessian, Lacky V. Shah, Nicholas Wang, Arthur Merlin Danskin
  • COOPERATIVE THREAD ARRAY GRANULARITY CONTEXT SWITCH DURING TRAP HANDLING
    Publication number: 20180052707
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for restoring threads within a processing core. The techniques include, for a first thread group included in a plurality of thread groups, executing a context restore routine to restore from a memory a first portion of a context associated with the first thread group, determining whether the first thread group completed an assigned function, and, if the first thread group completed the assigned function, then exiting the context restore routine, or if the first thread group did not complete the assigned function, then executing one or more operations associated with a trap handler routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Gerald F. LUIZ, Philip Alexander CUADRA, Luke DURANT, Shirish GADRE, Robert OHANNESSIAN, Lacky V. SHAH, Nicholas Wang, Arthur Merlin DANSKIN
  • Cooperative thread array granularity context switch during trap handling
    Patent number: 9804885
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for restoring threads within a processing core. The techniques include, for a first thread group included in a plurality of thread groups, executing a context restore routine to restore from a memory a first portion of a context associated with the first thread group, determining whether the first thread group completed an assigned function, and, if the first thread group completed the assigned function, then exiting the context restore routine, or if the first thread group did not complete the assigned function, then executing one or more operations associated with a trap handler routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald F. Luiz, Philip Alexander Cuadra, Luke Durant, Shirish Gadre, Robert Ohannessian, Lacky V. Shah, Nicholas Wang, Arthur Merlin Danskin
  • COOPERATIVE THREAD ARRAY GRANULARITY CONTEXT SWITCH DURING TRAP HANDLING
    Publication number: 20170010914
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for restoring threads within a processing core. The techniques include, for a first thread group included in a plurality of thread groups, executing a context restore routine to restore from a memory a first portion of a context associated with the first thread group, determining whether the first thread group completed an assigned function, and, if the first thread group completed the assigned function, then exiting the context restore routine, or if the first thread group did not complete the assigned function, then executing one or more operations associated with a trap handler routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Gerald F. LUIZ, Philip Alexander CUADRA, Luke DURANT, Shirish GADRE, Robert OHANNESSIAN, Lacky V. SHAH, Nicholas Wang, Arthur Merlin DANSKIN
  • Cooperative thread array granularity context switch during trap handling
    Patent number: 9448837
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for restoring thread groups in a cooperative thread array (CTA) within a processing core. Each thread group in the CTA is launched to execute a context restore routine. Each thread group, executes the context restore routine to restore from a memory a first portion of context associated with the thread group, and determines whether the thread group completed an assigned function prior to executing the context restore routine. If the thread group completed an assigned function prior to executing the context restore routine, then the thread group exits the context restore routine. If the thread group did not complete the assigned function prior to executing the context restore routine, then the thread group executes one or more operations associated with a trap handler routine. One advantage of the disclosed techniques is that the trap handling routine operates efficiently in parallel processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald F. Luiz, Philip Alexander Cuadra, Luke Durant, Shirish Gadre, Robert Ohannessian, Lacky V. Shah, Nicholas Wang, Arthur Merlin Danskin
  • COOPERATIVE THREAD ARRAY GRANULARITY CONTEXT SWITCH DURING TRAP HANDLING
    Publication number: 20140189711
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for restoring thread groups in a cooperative thread array (CTA) within a processing core. Each thread group in the CTA is launched to execute a context restore routine. Each thread group, executes the context restore routine to restore from a memory a first portion of context associated with the thread group, and determines whether the thread group completed an assigned function prior to executing the context restore routine. If the thread group completed an assigned function prior to executing the context restore routine, then the thread group exits the context restore routine. If the thread group did not complete the assigned function prior to executing the context restore routine, then the thread group executes one or more operations associated with a trap handler routine. One advantage of the disclosed techniques is that the trap handling routine operates efficiently in parallel processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Gerald F. Luiz, Phillip Alexander Cuadra, Luke Durant, Shirish Gadre, Robert Ohannessian, Lacky V. Shah, Nicholas Wang, Arthur Merlin Danskin