Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtualization of memory compute functionality
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Application No.: US15334504Application Date: 2016-10-26
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Publication No.: US10346050B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Edgar R. Cordero , Ananda Haridass , Arun Joseph , Diyanesh B. C. Vidyapoornachary
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Agent Bryan Bortnick
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F9/445

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for virtualizing memory compute function resources to improve resource utilization and system performance are disclosed. A virtualized hypervisor may be provided that is configured to instantiate a respective memory function controller of each memory controller present in a system/device. The virtualized hypervisor may be further configured to maintain the memory function controllers and their corresponding memory compute functionality as shareable resources that can be allocated to system components upon request. The virtualized hypervisor may allocate a memory function controller and its corresponding memory compute functionality to a system component, and may further provide the system component with an exclusive grant of memory compute pages that can be utilized by the allocated memory function controller to execute a memory compute function to perform one or more operations (e.g., one or more computations) on behalf of the system component.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180113612A1 VIRTUALIZATION OF MEMORY COMPUTE FUNCTIONALITY Public/Granted day:2018-04-26
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