Apparatus and method for providing workload distribution of threads among multiple compute units
In some examples, thermal aware optimization logic determines a characteristic (e.g., a workload or type) of a wavefront (e.g., multiple threads). For example, the characteristic indicates whether the wavefront is compute intensive, memory intensive, mixed, and/or another type of wavefront. The thermal aware optimization logic determines temperature information for one or more compute units (CUs) in one or more processing cores. The temperature information includes predictive thermal information indicating expected temperatures corresponding to the one or more CUs and historical thermal information indicating current or past thermal temperatures of at least a portion of a graphics processing unit (GPU). The logic selects the one or more compute units to process the plurality of threads based on the determined characteristic and the temperature information. The logic provides instructions to the selected subset of the plurality of CUs to execute the wavefront.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; B620717
- Assignee:
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
- Patent Number(s):
- 11,194,634
- Application Number:
- 16/220,827
- OSTI ID:
- 1860144
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 12/14/2018
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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