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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2016
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY;
Yongke Zhao, Hangzhou, CN;
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide resource managing methods and systems. The method comprises: receiving a request to allocate resources sent from host code of an application program located on a first device; in accordance with the allocation request and a maintained mapping logic mapping available hardware resources of at least one graphics processing unit (GPU) of the first device to a unified virtual GPU resource, allocating required resources for a device code of the application program from the available hardware resources of at least one GPU of the first device; and forwarding information of the allocated resource back to the host code. The present invention can efficiently utilize GPU resources and reduce implementation costs.