Apparatuses, methods, and systems for blockchain transaction acceleration

A method comprising:

• offloading an operation from a hardware processor to a hardware accelerator;
• routing the operation with a dispatcher circuit to a controller of a transaction processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a transaction operation;
• routing the operation with the dispatcher circuit to a controller of a block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a block operation;
• determining, by the controller of the transaction processing circuit, a compute circuit block of a plurality of different types of compute blocks of the transaction processing circuit to be used;
• sending the transaction operation to the compute circuit block of the transaction processing circuit if available and to the hardware processor if not available;
• determining, by the controller of the block processing circuit, a compute circuit block of a plurality of different types of compute blocks of the block processing circuit to be used;
• sending the block operation to the compute circuit block of the block processing circuit if available and to the hardware processor if not available;
• performing the routed operation with the compute circuit block of the transaction processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is the transaction operation and the compute circuit block of the transaction processing circuit is available;
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• performing the routed operation with the compute circuit block of the block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is the block operation and the compute circuit block of the block processing circuit is available.

An apparatus comprising:

• a transaction processing circuit of a hardware accelerator to execute an operation of a blockchain transaction;
• a block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator to execute an operation of a blockchain transaction;
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• a network interface controller comprising a dispatcher circuit to route an operation to a controller of the transaction processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a transaction operation and route the operation to a controller of the block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a block operation, wherein the controller of the transaction processing circuit is to determine a compute circuit block of a plurality of different types of compute blocks of the transaction processing circuit to be used and send the transaction operation to the compute circuit block if available and from the transaction processing circuit if not available, and the controller of the block processing circuit is to determine a compute circuit block of a plurality of different types of compute blocks of the block processing circuit to be used and send the block operation to the compute circuit block if available and from the block processing circuit if not available.

A method comprising:

• receiving an operation for a hardware accelerator with a network interface controller;
• routing the operation with a dispatcher circuit of the network interface controller to a controller of a transaction processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a transaction operation;
• routing the operation with the dispatcher circuit of the network interface controller to a controller of a block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a block operation;
• determining, by the controller of the transaction processing circuit, a compute circuit block of a plurality of different types of compute blocks of the transaction processing circuit to be used;
• sending the transaction operation to the compute circuit block of the transaction processing circuit if available and from the transaction processing circuit if not available;
• determining, by the controller of the block processing circuit, a compute circuit block of a plurality of different types of compute blocks of the block processing circuit to be used;
• sending the block operation to the compute circuit block of the block processing circuit if available and from the block processing circuit if not available;
• performing the routed operation with the compute circuit block of the transaction processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is the transaction operation and the compute circuit block of the transaction processing circuit is available;
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• performing the routed operation with the compute circuit block of the block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is the block operation and the compute circuit block of the block processing circuit is available.