Introduction

GTS is a C++ task scheduling framework for multi-processor platforms. It is designed to let developers express their applications in task parallelism and let the scheduling framework maximize the physical parallelism on the available processors.

Key Goals

Simple expression of task parallelism
Highly efficient scheduling
Easy to configure and extend

Target Audience

GTS is designed for the needs of current and future game engine developers. Typical engine developers employ a highly customized, platform-scalable task system (or job system) that provides dedicated worker threads executing thousands of concurrent tasks. These threads may also share resources with driver, networking, middleware, and video streaming threads, all working in synchronized concert to deliver glitch-free real-time rendering on 60+ frames per second (FPS) applications. Future game engines will have to cope with more threads, more tasks, and potentially multiple instruction-set-architectures (ISAs), all running on an ever-expanding hardware landscape.

We built GTS to be simple and friendly to game engine task system use cases. We want a framework that allows the game development community to experiment with and learn from different scheduling algorithms easily. We also want a framework that allows us to demonstrate state-of-the-art algorithms on task scheduling. Finally, we want to encourage games to better express parallelism so they can compute more cool stuff and enable richer PC gaming experiences!

Features

Clean engine integration
Expressive high-level dependency layout
Efficient low-level scheduling primitives
Parallel patterns and containers
Scalable memory allocator
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