Running a Fragment Shader on a GPU Core.

The article discusses the efficient execution of fragment shrader on a single-core graphics processing unit (GPU), detailing shrader compilation to SIMD (single instruction, multiple date) instruction sequences. Shrader compilation by the graphics driver produces a GPU binary from high-level fragmen...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 10; p. 55
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2008
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Sumario:The article discusses the efficient execution of fragment shrader on a single-core graphics processing unit (GPU), detailing shrader compilation to SIMD (single instruction, multiple date) instruction sequences. Shrader compilation by the graphics driver produces a GPU binary from high-level fragment shrader source, the article states. Topics include four vector registers, GPUs executing a copy of the shrader binary on each of the four thread contexts, and a pool of general-purpose vector registers.