US Patent Issued to VMware on May 19 for "Elastic provisioning of container-based graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes" (American, Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,314, issued on May 19, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Elastic provisioning of container-based graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes" was invented by Yisan Zhao (Beijing), Xiaoyu Hu (Austin, Texas), Robert Riemer (Siegburg, Germany) and Aidan Cully (Saint Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for elastic provisioning of container-based graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes are described. In one example, a computer system may monitor usage information associated with a pool of multiple container-based GPU nodes. Based on the usage information, the computer system may apply rule(s) to ...