Virtual accelerators in a virtualized computing system
US11960919B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 1, 2021 |
| Grant date | Apr 16, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 26, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/152
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An example method of virtualizing a hardware accelerator in a host cluster of a virtualized computing system includes: commanding, at an initiator host in the host cluster, a programmable expansion bus device to reconfigure as a virtual accelerator based on specifications of a hardware accelerator in a target host of the host cluster; executing, in the programmable expansion bus device, software to emulate the virtual accelerator as connected to an expansion bus of the initiator host; receiving, at the programmable expansion bus device, compute tasks from an application executing in the initiator host; and sending, to the target host, the compute tasks for processing by the hardware accelerator.
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