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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Timothy David Gasser, Austin, TX (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for dynamic and selective hardware acceleration are disclosed. An indirection layer receives a plurality of computation calls generated by an application. The application and the indirection layer are executed by at least one processor of a computing device, and the application links to the indirection layer. The indirection layer determines whether to execute individual computation calls using the at least one processor or using the hardware accelerator. The indirection layer sends one or more of the computation calls and associated data to the hardware accelerator. The one or more of the computation calls are executed using the hardware accelerator, and one or more results are returned from the hardware accelerator to the indirection layer.