Intel Corporation
REMOTE STORAGE FOR HARDWARE MICROSERVICES HOSTED ON XPUS AND SOC-XPU PLATFORMS

Abstract:

Methods, apparatus, and software for remote storage of hardware microservices hosted on other processing units (XPUs) and SOC-XPU Platforms. The apparatus may be a platform including a System on Chip (SOC) and an XPU, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Software, via execution on the SOC, enables the platform to pre-provision storage space on a remote storage node and assign the storage space to the platform, wherein the pre-provisioned storage space includes one or more container images to be implemented as one or more hardware (HW) microservice front-ends. The XPU/FPGA is configured to implement one or more accelerator functions used to accelerate HW microservice backend operations that are offloaded from the one or more HW microservice front-ends. The platform is also configured to pre-provision a remote storage volume containing worker node components and access and persistently store worker node components.