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<h2>Name</h2>

<p>gl_NumWorkGroups — contains the number of workgroups that have been dispatched to a compute shader</p>

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<h2>Declaration</h2>

<code class="fieldsynopsis"><span class="modifier">in </span><span class="type">uvec3 </span><span class="varname">gl_NumWorkGroups </span>;</code>

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<h2>Description</h2>

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In the compute language, <code class="varname">gl_NumWorkGroups</code>

contains the total number of work groups that will execute the compute

shader. The components of <code class="varname">gl_NumWorkGroups</code> are equal to the <em class="parameter"><code>num_groups_x</code></em>,

<em class="parameter"><code>num_groups_y</code></em>, and <em class="parameter"><code>num_groups_z</code></em> parameters passed to the

<code class="function">glDispatchCompute</code> command.

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<h2>Version Support</h2>

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<h2>See Also</h2>

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<a class="citerefentry" href="gl_WorkGroupSize"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gl_WorkGroupSize</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="gl_WorkGroupID"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gl_WorkGroupID</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="gl_LocalInvocationID"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gl_LocalInvocationID</span></span></a>

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<h2>Copyright</h2>

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Copyright © 2011-2014 Khronos Group.

This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in

the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.

<a class="link" href="https://opencontent.org/openpub/" target="_top">https://opencontent.org/openpub/</a>.

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