Nvidia patents API to check status of GPU tasks in a graph
Nvidia describes a software interface that lets developers ask for specific details about tasks running on its graphics chips. This tool helps programmers see the status of individual steps within a larger chain of calculations, even when those steps do not depend on previous results.
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 provide one or more indicators of context information corresponding to one or more kernels. The application programming interface can be used to provide indicators of context information for context-free kernels and context.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. One or more processors, comprising: circuitry to: receive an application programming interface (API) call comprising an API input parameter specifying a memory location storing a data structure; and in response to receipt of the API call: provide one or more indicators of context information of one or more context-free kernels corresponding to one or more nodes of a graph in response to determining that a value of a field of the data structure has a predetermined value.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO OBTAIN KERNEL NODE CONTEXT INFORMATION
- Publication number
- US20260319867A1
- Application number
- 19719761
- Filed
- Jun 25, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 1
Classified under
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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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