COMPUTE NODE SUPPORTING VIRTUAL MACHINES AND SERVICES

The invention concerns a compute node comprising: one or more processors; one or more memory devices storing software enabling virtual computing resources and virtual memory to be assigned to support:—a virtual machines compartment (402) in which a plurality of virtual machines (VM) is enabled by a hypervisor; and—a services compartment (404) comprising an operating system (OS) enabling one or more of real time capabilities, security functionality, and hardware accelerators, wherein the services compartment further comprises a virtual machines service manager (412) adapted to manage service requests received from the virtual machines; and a hardware partition (418) providing access control between the virtual machines (408) and the virtual machines services compartment (404).