Vmware, Inc.

Hari Sivaraman

Uday Pundalik Kurkure

Lan Vu

Rishi Bidarkar

Lawrence Spracklen

Banit Agrawal

Anshuj Garg

Sairam Veeraswamy

Tariq Magdon-Ismail

Peter Farkas

Xingze He

Avinash Kumar Chaurasia

Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan

Vikram Makhija

Xuwen Yu

Dimitrios Skarlatos

Aravind Bappanadu

Aravind Kumar Rao Bappanadu

Chandra Prakash

Mohit Mangal

An example computer system includes a hardware platform including a processing unit and software executing on the hardware platform. The software includes a workload and a scheduler, the workload including a network function chain having network functions, the scheduler configured to schedule the network functions for execution on the processing unit. A downstream network function includes a congestion monitor configured to monitor a first receive queue supplying packets to the downstream network function, the congestion monitor configured to compare occupancy of the first receive queue against a queue threshold. An upstream network function including a rate controller configured to receive a notification from the congestion monitor generated in response to the occupancy of the first receive queue exceeding the queue threshold, the rate controller configured to modify a rate of packet flow between a second receive queue and the upstream network function in response to the notification.

Virtual processing unit scheduling in a computing system

Disclosed are various embodiments for rate proportional scheduling to reduce packet loss in virtualized network function chains. A congestion monitor executed by a first virtual machine executed by a host computing device can detect congestion in a receive queue associated with a first virtualized network function implemented by a first virtual machine. The congestion monitor can send a pause signal to a rate controller executed by a second virtual machine executed by the host computing device. The rate controller can receive the pause signal. In response, the rate controller can pause the processing of packets by a second virtualized network function implemented by the second virtual machine to reduce congestion in the receive queue of the first virtualized network function.

Rate proportional scheduling to reduce packet loss in virtualized network function chains

Disclosed are aspects of memory-aware placement in systems that include graphics processing units (GPUs) that are virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled. In some examples, graphics processing units (GPU) are identified in a computing environment. Graphics processing requests are received. A graphics processing request includes a GPU memory requirement. The graphics processing requests are processed using a graphics processing request placement model that minimizes a number of utilized GPUs that are utilized to accommodate the requests. Virtual GPUs (vGPUs) are created to accommodate the graphics processing requests according to the graphics processing request placement model. The utilized GPUs divide their GPU memories to provide a subset of the plurality of vGPUs.

Memory-aware request placement for virtual GPU enabled systems

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.

Network function placement in vGPU-enabled environments

Various aspects are disclosed for graphics processing unit (GPU)-remoting latency aware migration. In some aspects, a host executes a GPU-remoting client that includes a GPU workload. GPU-remoting latencies are identified for hosts of a cluster. A destination host is identified based on having a lower GPU-remoting latency than the host currently executing the GPU-remoting client. The GPU-remoting client is migrated from its current host to the destination host.

GPU-remoting latency aware virtual machine migration

Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a client virtual machine processing a system call for a device driver to instruct a physical device to perform a function and transmitting the system call to an appliance virtual machine to execute the system call. The client virtual machine determines, in response to the system call, that an established connection with the appliance virtual machine has switched from a first protocol to a second protocol, the first and second protocols including a high-performance transmission protocol and Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). The client virtual machine transmits the system call to the appliance virtual machine according to the second protocol. For example, the established connection may switch to the second protocol in response to the client virtual machine migrating to the first host device from a second host device.

High-performance processing in a virtualization environment

Disclosed are aspects of workload selection and placement in systems that include graphics processing units (GPUs) that are virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled. In some aspects, workloads are assigned to virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU)-enabled graphics processing units (GPUs) based on a variety of vGPU placement models. A number of vGPU placement neural networks are trained to maximize a composite efficiency metric based on workload data and GPU data for the plurality of vGPU placement models. A combined neural network selector is generated using the vGPU placement neural networks, and utilized to assign a workload to a vGPU-enabled GPU.

Workload placement for virtual GPU enabled systems

Disclosed are aspects of task assignment for systems that include graphics processing units (GPUs) that are virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled. In some examples, an algorithm is determined based on predetermined virtual machine assignment algorithms. The algorithm optimizes for a predetermined cost function. A virtual machine is queued in an arrival queue for assignment. A graphics configuration of a system is determined. The graphics configuration specifies a number of graphics processing units (GPUs) in the system. The system includes a vGPU enabled GPU. The algorithm is selected based on a correlation between the algorithm and the graphics configuration of the system. The virtual machine is assigned to a run queue based on the selected algorithm.

Method and system for assigning a virtual machine in virtual GPU enabled systems

A method for symmetric authentication is provided. This method includes generating a first challenge message containing a first string; encrypting the first challenge message; transmitting the encrypted first challenge message to a second device; receiving a first answer message from the second device; decrypting the first answer message; and authenticating the second device based on determining the decrypted first answer message contains the first string. Upon successful authentication of the second device, the method further includes receiving an encrypted second challenge message from the second device; decrypting the encrypted second challenge message; generating a second answer message containing a second string; encrypting the second answer message; and transmitting the encrypted second answer message to the second device.

Symmetric account authentication

A system and method for assessing video quality of a video-based application trains a neural network using training data of video samples and assesses video of the video-based application using the neural network to generate the subjective video quality information of the video-based application. Data augmentation is performed on video data, which is labeled with at least one subjective quality level, to generate the training data of video samples.

System and method for machine learning based video quality assessment

Disclosed are aspects of virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU) scheduling-aware virtual machine migration. Graphics processing units (GPUs) that are compatible with a current virtual GPU (vGPU) profile for a virtual machine are identified. A scheduling policy matching order for a migration of the virtual machine is determined based on a current vGPU scheduling policy for the virtual machine. A destination GPU is selected based on a vGPU scheduling policy of the destination GPU being identified as a best available vGPU scheduling policy according to the scheduling policy matching order. The virtual machine is migrated to the destination GPU.

VGPU scheduling policy-aware migration

Method and system for training a neural network. The neural network is split into first and second portions. A k-layer first portion is sent to a client training/inference engine and the second portion is retained by a server training/inference engine. At the splitting point, the kth layer is a one-way function in output computation has a number of nodes that are less than any other layer of the first portion. The client training/inference engine trains the first portion with input data in a set of training data. The server training/inference engine receives a batch of outputs from the client training and applies them to the second portion to train the entire neural network.

Secure cloud-based machine learning without sending original data to the cloud

Disclosed are aspects of memory-aware placement in systems that include graphics processing units (GPUs) that are virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled. Virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU) data is identified for graphics processing units (GPUs). A configured GPU list and an unconfigured GPU list are generated using the GPU data. The configured GPU list specifies configured vGPU profiles for configured GPUs. The unconfigured GPU list specifies a total GPU memory for unconfigured GPUs. A vGPU request is assigned to a vGPU of a GPU. The GPU is a first fit, from the configured GPU list or the unconfigured GPU list that satisfies a GPU memory requirement of the vGPU request.

Placement of virtual GPU requests in virtual GPU enabled systems using a requested memory requirement of the virtual GPU request

A system and method for assessing video quality of a video-based application inserts frame identifiers (IDs) into video content from the video-based application and recognizes the frame IDs from the video content using a text recognition neural network. Based on recognized frame IDs, a frame per second (FPS) metric of the video content is calculated. Based on the FPS metric of the video content, objective video quality of the video-based application is assessed.

Various examples are disclosed for generating heatmaps and plotting utilization of hosts in a datacenter environment. A collector virtual machine can rove the datacenter and collect utilization data. The utilization data can be plotted on a heatmap to illustrate utilization hotspots in the datacenter environment.

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Hari Sivaraman