Consolidating operations associated with a plurality of host devices

A non-transitory computer readable medium that includes executable instructions, which in response to execution by a processor, cause the processor to perform or control performance of a method to consolidate computation tasks associated with a plurality of virtual machines that run on two or more host devices, wherein the method comprises:

• instructing operation of a first host device and a second host device, wherein the first host device is operated at a first data center that is located at a first physical location, and wherein the second host device is operated at a second data center that is located at a second physical location;
• cloning a first virtual machine to obtain a second virtual machine;
• identifying a first set of operations of the first virtual machine on the first host device that are similar to a second set of operations of the second virtual machine on the second host device, wherein identifying the first set of operations that are similar to the second set of operations comprises identifying that each of the first set of operations and the second set of operations are associated with a first type of computation;
• identifying a third set of operations of the first virtual machine that are similar to a fourth set of operations of the second virtual machine, wherein identifying the third set of operations that are similar to the fourth set of operations comprises identifying that each of the third set of operations and the fourth set of operations are associated with a second type of computation;
• dispatching the first set of operations and the second set of operations to a first core of a pipeline for execution;
• and
• dispatching the third set of operations and the fourth set of operations to a second core of the pipeline for execution.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a multi-core processor that includes a first core and a second core formed in a pipeline, wherein formation of the first core and the second core in the pipeline is based on detection of a pipeline formation condition according to at least one of:
• determination that at least one of a first host device and a second host device is underutilized,
• determination that a number of instances of application of a virtual machine fork operation exceeds a threshold number, and
• determination that a particular number of general purpose processors or general purpose cores are used to perform specialized operations;
• a monitor module operatively coupled to the multi-core processor, and
• configured to:
• identify a first set of operations of a first virtual machine that runs on the first host device that are similar to a second set of operations of a second virtual machine that runs on the second host device, wherein the identification of the first set of operations includes an identification that each of the first set of operations and the second set of operations are associated with a first type of computation, and
• identify a third set of operations of the first virtual machine that are similar to a fourth set of operations of the second virtual machine, wherein the identification of the third set of operations includes an identification that each of the third set of operations and the fourth set of operations are associated with a second type of computation;
• and
• a hypervisor operatively coupled to the multi-core processor and configured to, in response to the identification of the first set of operations and the identification of the third set of operations:
• dispatch the first set of operations and the second set of operations to the first core of the pipeline for execution;
• dispatch the third set of operations and the fourth set of operations to the second core of the pipeline for execution;
• and
• pass data from the first core of the pipeline to the second core of the pipeline through at least one of a private layer data cache and a public layer cache.