Invention Application
- Patent Title: NETWORK FUNCTION PLACEMENT IN VGPU-ENABLED ENVIRONMENTS
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Application No.: US17224293Application Date: 2021-04-07
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Publication No.: US20220237014A1Publication Date: 2022-07-28
- Inventor: UDAY PUNDALIK KURKURE , Sairam Veeraswamy , Hari Sivaraman , Lan Vu , Avinash Kumar Chaurasia
- Applicant: VMWARE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Priority: IN202141003210 20210122
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/50 ; G06T1/20

Abstract:
Disclosed are aspects of network function placement in virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU)-enabled environments. In one example a network function request is associated with a network function. A scheduler selects a vGPU-enabled GPU to handle the network function request. The vGPU-enabled GPU is selected in consideration of a network function memory requirement or a network function IO requirement. The network function request is processed using an instance of the network function within a virtual machine that is executed using the selected vGPU-enabled GPU.
Public/Granted literature
- US12124867B2 Network function placement in vGPU-enabled environments Public/Granted day:2024-10-22
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