US Patent Issued to VMWare on March 18 for "Placing virtual graphics processing unit (GPU)-configured virtual machines on physical GPUs supporting multiple virtual GPU profiles" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,342, issued on March 18, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Placing virtual graphics processing unit (GPU)-configured virtual machines on physical GPUs supporting multiple virtual GPU profiles" was invented by Akshay Bhandari (Bangalore, India) and Nidhin Urmese (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a request to provision a virtual machine (VM) in a host cluster, where the VM is associated with a virtual graphics processing unit (GPU) profile indicating a desired or required framebuffer memory size of a virtual GPU of the VM. In response, the computer ...