Infrastructure and scheduling service layers for scheduling forwarding of endpoint processing unit computation results through a network

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a method of managing communication between endpoint processing units (EPUs) through a network having multiple forwarding elements. Sets of the EPUs execute operations associated with multiple distributed applications. The method provides a first set of infrastructure services to configure multiple forwarding elements to implement multiple virtual private clouds (VPCs) with each VPC connecting different sets of EPUs that execute different distributed applications. The method provides, for each VPC, a second set of scheduling services to schedule forwarding of results computed by the VPC's EPUs through the forwarding elements that form the VPC.

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