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INTRO About myself: - Game developer - I like shaders - Miss hardware acceleration on Plan 9 WHAT IS A GPU? Separate computer - more complex than just a small coprocessor "Graphics" processing unit - can do much more than graphics - GPGPU SIMD - GPUs are best example, because graphics - image: thousands of pixels, same process - GPU: run program thousand times, different data, in parallel - different architectures, generations, ... technical details (ignore) APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE Resource Abstraction - bind different gpufs 9P Performance - could be big overhead! - to explore Scalability on the application level - gpufs doesn't know the use case - application must scale - draw less - smaller detail, ... - gamedev - but: non-gamedev tasks (simulation, science)? INSPIRED BY VULKAN Designed by Khronos - designed OpenGL Lowlevel API - compared to DirectX and OpenGL - OGL: 100 LOC, Vulkan: 1000LOC Abstract and cross-platform - shader language SPIR-V - Available on win, linux (incl. Android), mac Shaders and buffers as objects - transfers to filesystem hierarchy pic: - application manages shader and buffer at filesystem level - compilation, loading to GPU - execution on GPU FILESYSTEM INTERFACE everything work in progress no guarantees things can change drastically Simple to understand - easy to develop applications - can be handled by hand Generic enough to be portable - Plan 9 is cross platform Plug and Play - same interface for all implementations - bind GPGPU first - future: only compute shader pic: creating buffer and shader loading data pic: filesystem overview - one buffer, one shader - ctl files pic: descriptor table 1 pool, 2 sets. first set with 4 bindings shader -> pool buffer -> specific binding confusing, refer to shader EXAMPLE SHADER PROGRAM important: - layout lines - gl_GlobalInvocationID layout buffer: - set and binding layout local_size_xyz: - workgroup size (will explain) gl_GlobalInvocationID: - which invocation (which data to use) WORKGROUPS Number of workgroups: - specified when shader is run - 3d vector Workgroup size: - seen in shader program - 3d vector Total number of invocations -> gl_GlobalInvocationID Compile: - High level (edited) - Spir-V binary - Native - GPU SPIR-V binary is cross-platform: - not machine-specific - "description" of the program - cross compilers IMPLEMENTATION Draft Implementation: - focus on filesystem - stalled Drawterm: - actual GPU - verify and refine filesystem interface Possible others: - Future! - e. g. SSE/CPU, network, hardware, ...