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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2022
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Francesc Guim Bernat, Barcelona, ES;
Karthik Kumar, Chandler, AZ (US);
Alexander Bachmutsky, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for hardware support for low latency microservice deployments in switches. A switch is communicatively coupled via a network or fabric to a plurality of platforms configured to implement one or more microservices. The microservices are used to perform a distributed workload, job, or task as defined by a corresponding graph representation of the microservices including vertices (also referred to as nodes) associated with microservices and edges defining communication between microservices. The graph representation also defines dependencies between microservices. The switch is configured to schedule execution of the graph of microservices on the plurality of platforms, including generating an initial schedule that is dynamically revised during runtime in consideration of performance telemetry data for the microservices received from the platforms and network/fabric utilization monitored onboard the switch. The switch also may include memory in which graph representations, microservice tables, and node-to-microservice maps are stored.