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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Spenser Gilliland, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Mirkis, Longmont, CO (US);
Fernando J. Martinez Vallina, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ambujavalli Kesavan, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael D. Allen, Broomfield, CO (US);
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method of managing a plurality of hardware accelerators in a computing system includes executing workload management software in the computing system configured to allocate a plurality of jobs in a job queue among a pool of resources in the computer system; monitoring the job queue to determine required hardware functionalities for the plurality of jobs; provisioning at least one hardware accelerator of the plurality of hardware accelerators to provide the required hardware functionalities; configuring a programmable device of each provisioned hardware accelerator to implement at least one of the required hardware functionalities; and notifying the workload management software that each provisioned hardware accelerator is an available resource in the pool of resources.