Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robert Binneweg Francis

Barry Clayton Bond

Jonathan David Morrison

Eric David Heutchy

Samer Arafeh

Spencer Dean Perreault

Brian E Spanton

Jeffrey Edwin Shipman

Nicholas James Anderson

A method for managing storage and computational resources in a datacenter includes obtaining a power delivery limit for a rack power supply delivering power to the plurality of computing devices and measuring a resource telemetry for the first computing device and second computing device in the server rack. In response to measuring a power draw of the server rack above a power threshold value of the power delivery limit, the method includes allocating the second computing device of the server rack as a storage server to the first computing device. The method occurs at a server rack including a plurality of computing devices. A first computing device and a second computing device are in network communication with one another. Each of the first computing device and second computing device include a processor and a hardware storage device.

Allocating compute nodes as storage in a power-constrained environment

Systems and methods for virtualizing audio decoding hardware of a guest audio decoder are disclosed. A method may include storing received encoded audio in main memory of a host computing device. An operation to access a register or memory of the audio decoding hardware of the guest audio decoder may be intercepted. The register or memory has an associated address in the main memory of the host computing device. The intercepted operation can include a register WRITE operation, and can be translated into an operation associated with accessing dedicated decoder memory of a host audio decoder of the host computing device.

Virtualizing audio decoding hardware

Resource processing, such as shader translation, during run time of an application on an emulated platform, can be performed asynchronously from emulation of the application. One or more server computers can be configured to perform such processing remotely from the computers executing the emulation. The one or more server computers can receive resources for processing from multiple computers. The one or more server computers aggregate the resources received from the multiple computers for different applications and process those resources. For example, multiple shaders, discovered from multiple different emulations of an application on multiple computers, are translated and organized by the one or more server computers. The translated shaders can be packaged as an update to the application and redistributed to the computers using the application. Such an update can be installed on the computers as a set of translated shaders for use in the emulation of the application.

Remote translation, aggregation and distribution of computer program resources in graphics processing unit emulation

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