Nvidia patents API to control how GPU tasks are scheduled
Nvidia describes a software interface that lets developers choose how groups of computer instructions are assigned to different parts of a graphics processor. This scheduling policy determines how work is distributed across the hardware to run programs more efficiently.
In the filing’s own words
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to execute CUDA programs. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface is performed to determine a scheduling policy of one or more blocks of one or more threads.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. One or more processors, comprising: circuitry to, in response to an application programming interface (API) call: cause one or more block clusters, each block cluster comprising a plurality of blocks of threads, to be performed concurrently by a plurality of compute units of an accelerator, wherein performance of the blocks of threads is distributed between the plurality of compute units according to a scheduling policy indicated to the API.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO PERFORM A SCHEDULING POLICY
- Publication number
- US20260300006A1
- Application number
- 19702856
- Filed
- Jun 9, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 9/4881 Physics & computingG06F 8/456 Physics & computingG06F 9/30072 Physics & computingG06F 9/5044 Physics & computingG06F 9/505 Physics & computingG06F 9/522 Physics & computingMore from Nvidia in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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