Patents by Inventor Andrew Mirkis

Andrew Mirkis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Dynamic load balancing and configuration management for heterogeneous compute accelerators in a data center
    Patent number: 11487585
    Abstract: An example method of managing a plurality of hardware accelerators in a computing system includes executing workload management software in the computing system configured to allocate a plurality of jobs in a job queue among a pool of resources in the computer system; monitoring the job queue to determine required hardware functionalities for the plurality of jobs; provisioning at least one hardware accelerator of the plurality of hardware accelerators to provide the required hardware functionalities; configuring a programmable device of each provisioned hardware accelerator to implement at least one of the required hardware functionalities; and notifying the workload management software that each provisioned hardware accelerator is an available resource in the pool of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Spenser Gilliland, Andrew Mirkis, Fernando J. Martinez Vallina, Ambujavalli Kesavan, Michael D. Allen