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- Patent Title: Optimizing container executions with network-attached hardware components of a composable disaggregated infrastructure
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Application No.: US17648573Application Date: 2022-01-21
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Publication No.: US11863385B2Publication Date: 2024-01-02
- Inventor: Dionysios Diamantopoulos , Burkhard Ringlein , Francois Abel
- 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
- Agent Michael A. Petrocelli
- Main IPC: H04L41/082
- IPC: H04L41/082 ; H04L47/12

Abstract:
The invention is notably directed to a method, computer program product, and computer system for running software inside containers. The method relies on a computerized system that includes a composable disaggregated infrastructure, in addition to general-purpose hardware. The computerized system is configured to dynamically allocate computerized resources, which include both general resources and specialized resources. The former are enabled by the general-purpose hardware, while the latter are enabled by specialized network-attached hardware components of the composable disaggregated infrastructure. The method maintains a table capturing specializations of the specialized network-attached hardware components. At runtime, software is run inside each container by executing corresponding functions. A first subset of the functions are executed using the general resources, whereas a second subset of the functions are executed using the specialized resources, by offloading the second subset of functions to respective components of the specialized network-attached hardware components, in accordance with the specializations.
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