Interconnect partition binding API, allocation and management of application-specific partitions

A system comprising:

• one or more host computing systems implemented at least partially by hardware, each host computing system including at least one execution core and a system memory;
• a plurality of virtual partitions executing on the one or more host computing systems and including
• a first virtual partition having at least a portion of the system memory associated with at least one of the one or more host computing systems and configured to store a database in the first virtual partition, and
• a control virtual partition having at least another portion of the system memory associated with the at least one of the one or more host computing systems and configured to store a master resource database containing all resource assignments for all of the plurality of virtual partitions;
• an interconnect layer communicatively connecting the plurality of virtual partitions, the interconnect layer providing a programming interface by which direct memory access operations between any of the plurality of plurality of partitions are coordinated;
• wherein, in response to database commands received at the first virtual partition, data stored in the database of the first virtual partition is provided to a requesting virtual partition as a direct memory access operation, wherein the requesting virtual partition being any of the plurality of partitions;
• the plurality of virtual partitions each comprises its own partition monitor that constrains applications running within each virtual partition to only assigned resources and protects processor-provided resources using memory mapped I/O operations according to the resource assignments;
• the partition monitor within the virtual control partition creates and terminates the partition monitors in all other virtual partitions and aids processor context switches from one virtual partition to another, wherein the processor context switches being associated with at least a guest partition state and a privileged state of at least a virtual partition;
• the partition monitor of each virtual partition being able to adaptively support features of each of the plurality of virtual partitions.