| 摘要 |
There is provided a system and method of provisioning virtualised computational resources in a networked computer architecture comprising at least one client device operable to run one or more client applications, at least one server device and a resource controller. Each server device comprises one or more physical processors having a local memory, and each server device provides a virtual resource layer through which one or more virtual processing resources can be defined and through which said one or more physical processors of said server device can be assigned to one or more of said virtual processing resources. The physical processors are operable to process at least a part of a data processing workload from said one or more client applications, where each data processing workload including input data comprising a static data part and a dynamic data part. In use, the resource controller assigns a virtual processing resource to a plurality of client applications, where the input data for the data processing workload of each of said client applications comprises the same static data part. If required, one or more physical processors are assigned to said virtual processing resource, with the common static data part of said input data being stored in the local memory of any physical processors so assigned. A workload queue is then allocated to each of said plurality of clients to which said virtual processing resource is assigned. Data processing workloads can then be sent and processed. By providing such a system and method, multiple client applications are able to utilise a single virtual resource. This enables efficient sharing of computational resources which is not possible with conventional arrangements. |
