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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2020
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Derek Chiou, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew Putnam, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Firestone, Redmond, WA (US);
Jack Lavier, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/0709 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0026 (2013.01);
Abstract
A physical server with an offload card including a SoC (system-on-chip) and a FPGA (field programmable gate array) is disclosed. According to one set of embodiments, the SoC can be configured to offload one or more hypervisor functions from a CPU complex of the server that are suited for execution in software, and the FPGA can be configured to offload one or more hypervisor functions from the CPU complex that are suited for execution in hardware.