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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018

Filed:

May. 29, 2012
Applicants:

Muhammad Mustafa Rafique, Doha, QA;

Mohamed Hefeeda, Doha, QA;

Khaled M. Diab Diab, Doha, QA;

Inventors:
Assignee:

Qatar Foundation, Doha, QA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5005 (2013.01); G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 9/5055 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A graphics processing unit controller configured to be communicatively coupled to one or more graphics processing units and one or more virtual machines, comprising: a unit collection module which is configured to store information regarding the available resources of one or more graphics processing units; and a scheduler module configured to allocate at least part of the one or more graphics processing units to the execution of a compute kernel in response to receipt of a request for the execution of the compute kernel, wherein the scheduler is configured to allocate at least part of the one or more graphics processing units based on a comparison between the available resources of the one or more graphics processing units and required resources for the execution of the compute kernel.


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