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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jose Fonseca, London, GB;
Salim Abiezzi, Sammamish, WA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, techniques, and systems for dynamically allocating graphics processing units among virtual machines are provided. Example embodiments provide a dynamic GPU allocation system ('DGAS'), which enables the efficient allocation of physical GPU resources to one or more virtual machines. In one embodiment, the DGAS determines runtime profiles of a plurality of virtual machines. The runtime profiles are determined by determining a runtime assessment of workload indicative of a potential benefit that the virtual machine can receive from using a GPU resource. The DGAS then causes the processing bandwidth of the physical GPU resources to be allocated to some of the plurality of virtual machines based upon the dynamically determined runtime assessments of workload.