Patent attributes
The invention concerns a processing system comprising: a compute node (20) having one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing software enabling virtual computing resources and virtual memory to be assigned to support a plurality of virtual machines (VM1); a reconfigurable circuit (301) comprising a dynamically reconfigurable portion (302) comprising one or more partitions (304) that are reconfigurable during runtime and implement at least one hardware accelerator (ACC #1 to #N) assigned to at least one of the plurality of virtual machines (VM); and a virtualization manager (306) providing an interface between the at least one hardware accelerator (ACC #1 to #N) and the compute node (202) and comprising a circuit (406) adapted to translate, for the at least one hardware accelerator, virtual memory addresses into corresponding physical memory addresses to permit communication between the one or more hardware accelerators and the plurality of virtual machines.
