Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brian Jacob Corell

Prateek Tandon

Thomas Moscibroda

Marcus Felipe Fontoura

Ke Wang

Yimin Deng

Aditya Bhandari

Sameh Elnikety

Ricardo Gouvêa Bianchini

Chandrasekhar Pasupuleti

Inigo Goiri Presa

Kapil Arya

Alper Gun

A function processing service may receive a request to execute source code. The source code may include instructions to perform a function. The function processing service may determine whether at least one hardware acceleration condition has been satisfied for the function. If at least one hardware acceleration condition has been satisfied, the instructions in the source code may be translated into hardware-specific code corresponding to a hardware circuit. The hardware circuit may be configured based on the hardware-specific code, and the hardware circuit may perform the function. The function processing service may then provide the result obtained from the hardware circuit to the requesting entity.

Hardware acceleration for function processing

The present disclosure describes a type of virtual machine, which the present disclosure may refer to as a harvest virtual machine, that may allow improved utilization of physical computing resources on a cloud-computing system. First, the harvest virtual machine may be evictable. In other words, higher priority virtual machines may preempt the harvest virtual machine's access to physical computing resources. Second, the harvest virtual machine may receive access to a dynamic amount of physical computing resources during the course of its operating life. Third, the harvest virtual machine may have a minimum size (in terms of an amount of physical computing resources) and may terminate whenever the harvest virtual machine has access to an amount of physical computing resources less than the minimum size.

Harvest virtual machine for utilizing cloud-computing resources

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