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  An Intel MIC X100 device is a PCIe form factor add-in coprocessor
  card based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture
  that runs a Linux OS. It is a PCIe endpoint in a platform and therefore
  implements the three required standard address spaces i.e. configuration,
  memory and I/O. The host OS loads a device driver as is typical for
  PCIe devices. The card itself runs a bootstrap after reset that
  transfers control to the card OS downloaded from the host driver. The
  host driver supports OSPM suspend and resume operations. It shuts down
  the card during suspend and reboots the card OS during resume.
  The card OS as shipped by Intel is a Linux kernel with modifications
  for the X100 devices.
  
  Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
  devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
  on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment
  for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages
  the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
  though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
  
  Here is a block diagram of the various components described above. The
  virtio backends are situated on the host rather than the card given better
  single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC, the ability of
  the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine and
  the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host.
  
                                |
         +----------+           |             +----------+
         | Card OS  |           |             | Host OS  |
         +----------+           |             +----------+
                                |
  +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+  +--------+ +--------+
  | Virtio| |Virtio  | |Virtio| | |Virtio   |  |Virtio  | |Virtio  |
  | Net   | |Console | |Block | | |Net      |  |Console | |Block   |
  | Driver| |Driver  | |Driver| | |backend  |  |backend | |backend |
  +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+  +--------+ +--------+
      |         |         |     |      |            |         |
      |         |         |     |User  |            |         |
      |         |         |     |------|------------|---------|-------
      +-------------------+     |Kernel +--------------------------+
                |               |       | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs  |
                |               |       +--------------------------+
        +--------------+        |                   |
        |Intel MIC     |        |            +---------------+
        |Card Driver   |        |            |Intel MIC      |
        +--------------+        |            |Host Driver    |
                |               |            +---------------+
                |               |                   |
       +-------------------------------------------------------------+
       |                                                             |
       |                    PCIe Bus                                 |
       +-------------------------------------------------------------+