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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2014
Vce Company, Llc, Richardson, TX (US);
Jonathan P. Streete, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan Fontanez, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Joshua L. Bonczkowski, Apex, NC (US);
VCE IP Holding Company LLC, Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for providing remote graphics processing unit (GPU) availability to one or more computing components of a data center. In particular, the present disclosure provides the remote location of one or more GPUs within a computing environment for use by one or more computing devices within the computing environment. Thus, each computing device may utilize the remotely located GPUs to perform the tasks of the computing device associated with a GPU, without the need for the GPU to be located within the computing device itself or within the same rack of the computing device. In this manner, one or more GPUs of a computing environment may provide GPU services to any number of computing devices, even though the GPUs are remote from the computing devices.