Abstract: A method of GPU virtualization comprises allocating each virtual machine (or operating system running on a VM) an identifier by the hypervisor and then this identifier is used to tag every transaction deriving from a GPU workload operating within a given VM context (i.e. every GPU transaction on the system bus which interconnects the CPU, GPU and other peripherals). Additionally, dedicated portions of a memory resource (which may be GPU registers or RAM) are provided for each VM and whilst each VM can only see their allocated portion of the memory, a microprocessor within the GPU can see all of the memory. Access control is achieved using root memory management units which are configured by the hypervisor and which map guest physical addresses to actual memory addresses based on the identifier associated with the transaction.

Abstract: A fan assembly, including a fan body including an inlet surface defining an air inlet. A motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body generates an airflow. A filter assembly is arranged to removably engage with the fan body and to cover at least a portion of the inlet surface when engaged with the fan body. The filter assembly includes a filter and a housing for the filter, the housing being provided with a filter retention assembly for releasably retaining the filter in the housing, and a user interface for actuating the filter retention assembly to release the filter from the housing. Upon actuation of the filter retention assembly via the user interface, the filter is free to slide relative to the housing. Preferably, the user interface is positioned on the housing.

Abstract: An interpolated flat-panel display comprises a display substrate and an array of clusters disposed on the display substrate. Each cluster comprises an exclusive group of display pixels and a cluster controller for controlling the display pixels. The cluster controller is operable to receive input data specifying a desired light output from one or more but fewer than all of the display pixels in the group of display pixels, calculate interpolated data at least in part from the input data, and drive the display pixels to emit light in response to the calculated interpolated data and received input data. The input data can correspond to an image pixel in an input image. The cluster controller can be operable to receive a parameter value describing attributes of a local portion of the input image including the image pixel and the interpolated data is calculated at least in part from the parameter value.

Abstract: A bone conduction loudspeaker is disclosed. The loudspeaker includes a conductive case, a sound control plate arranged at one end of the conductive case and contacting with the conductive case, and an accommodating space surrounded by the conductive case and the sound control plate. The accommodating space accommodates a coil for generating a magnetic field and a magnetic assembly. The magnetic assembly, the conductive case and the sound control plate form a magnetic circuit, and the conductive case and the sound control plate are respectively made of electroacoustic materials with different thicknesses. The magnetic assembly, the conductive case and the sound control plate form a magnetic loop to form a magnetic system, and after the coil is electrified, an alternating magnetic field is generated, the alternating magnetic field intensity of the magnetic system is changed.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for neural programming. One of the methods includes processing a current neural network input using a core recurrent neural network to generate a neural network output; determining, from the neural network output, whether or not to end a currently invoked program and to return to a calling program from the set of programs; determining, from the neural network output, a next program to be called; determining, from the neural network output, contents of arguments to the next program to be called; receiving a representation of a current state of the environment; and generating a next neural network input from an embedding for the next program to be called and the representation of the current state of the environment.

Abstract: A graphics processing system is configured to render primitives using a rendering space that is sub-divided into sections, wherein the graphics processing system includes assessment logic configured to make an assessment regarding the presence of primitive edges in a section, and determination logic configured to determine an anti-aliasing setting for the section based on the assessment.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of training a neural network configured to combine a set of coefficients with respective input data values. So as to train a test implementation of the neural network, sparsity is applied to one or more of the coefficients according to a sparsity parameter, the sparsity parameter indicating a level of sparsity to be applied to the set of coefficients; the test implementation of the neural network is operated on training input data using the coefficients so as to form training output data; in dependence on the training output data, assessing the accuracy of the neural network; the sparsity parameter is updated in dependence on the accuracy of the neural network; and a runtime implementation of the neural network is configured in dependence on the updated sparsity parameter.

Abstract: Graphics processing system configured to perform ray tracing. Rays are bundled together and processed together. When differential data is needed by a shader, the data of a true ray in the bundle can be used rather than processing separate tracker rays.

Abstract: A secondary battery is arc-shaped and includes an electrode assembly and a housing the separator is arranged between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, the first positive electrode plate on the outermost layer of the electrode assembly, the first negative electrode plate adjacent to the first positive electrode plate, along an arc extension direction of the secondary battery, the first negative electrode plate has a first region beyond an edge of the first positive electrode plate, the first insulator is arranged on a first separator for separating the first negative electrode plate and the first positive electrode plate, and viewed along a thickness direction of the electrode assembly, the first insulator and the first region at least partially overlap. The housing is used for accommodating the electrode assembly and includes an aluminum layer.

Abstract: A battery includes a first battery cell and a second battery cell, a buffer member, and a temperature collection member provided in a stacked manner; the buffer member is provided between the first battery cell and the second battery cell and/or is provided on a side of the first battery cell away from the second battery cell; the temperature collection member is provided between the first battery cell and the buffer member for collecting a temperature of the first battery cell; the temperature collection member is of a sheet structure, and a thickness direction of the temperature collection member is parallel to a stacking direction of the first battery cell and the second battery cell.

Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a housing, an electrode assembly, a plate-shaped member and a cover body. The housing has an accommodating cavity and a first wall covering the accommodating cavity. The plate-shaped member is disposed between the first wall and the electrode assembly and includes a second opening. The cover body includes a cover portion and a protruding portion extending into the accommodating cavity. In a second direction, the plate-shaped member includes a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion and extending in a direction deviating from the second direction, and the second portion surrounds the protruding portion to form a second edge. In the first direction, a distance between the first portion and the cover portion is a first distance, and a distance between the second edge and the cover portion is a second distance, the first distance being different from the second distance.

Abstract: A battery, including a battery cell and a protection circuit board. The battery cell includes a cell body; a first tab, and a second tab. The first tab electrically connects the cell body and the protection circuit board. The second tab electrically connects the cell body and the protection circuit board. A polarity of the second tab is opposite to that of the first tab. The third tab electrically connects the cell body and the protection circuit board. A polarity of the third tab is same as that of the first tab, thereby being conducive to reducing temperature rise of the battery cell and the protection circuit board in use. This application further provides an electronic device that uses the battery.

Abstract: Described in example embodiments herein are methods and systems for implementing sending packets from a first network node to a second network node. Packets belonging to the same session may be sent through the same or different tunnels. The second network node processes packets belonging to the same session using the same core. In accordance with an example embodiment, the first network node informs the second network code the core to process the packets. Optionally, selection of core at the second network node is assisted by a core identity created by the first network based on the session. The core identity may be stored in the header or payload of the packets. In an example embodiment, the second network determines the core for processing packet belonging to the same session.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fan including a nozzle having an air outlet through which an airflow is expelled in an axial direction. The fan includes an axial perturbation device for applying a velocity perturbation at a first frequency to the airflow in the axial direction.

Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a cathode including a cathode current collector, a first cathode active material layer including a first cathode active material, and a second cathode active material layer including a second cathode active material. The first cathode active material layer is disposed between the cathode current collector and the second cathode active material layer, and the first cathode active material layer is formed on at least one surface of the cathode current collector. The first cathode active material layer is firstly formed on the cathode current collector, and the second cathode active material layer is secondly formed on the first cathode active material layer, then the second cathode active material layer and the first cathode active material layer are pressed together.

Abstract: An electrochemical device including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode includes a negative current collector and a negative active material layer formed on the negative current collector. The negative active material layer contains a negative active material. A conductive material is disposed between the negative active material layer and the negative current collector. An average particle diameter of the conductive material is smaller than that of the negative active material. The negative active material layer possesses a specific weight. The electrochemical device improves high-temperature cycle expansion performance and overcharge protection performance.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a secondary battery including: a cap assembly including a cap plate including an electrode lead-out hole and an electrode terminal disposed on the cap plate; a current collector including a main body located at a side of the cap plate and an extending portion extending toward the electrode terminal, where the extending portion includes a top plate connected to the electrode terminal and a side plate connected to the main body, and the side plate and the top plate are configured to form a recess; and an insulating protection component including a column portion disposed in the recess, where surfaces of the side plate and the top plate which form the recess are in contact with the column portion and covered by the column portion.

Abstract: A noise reduction system for a digital receiver reduces noise in signals received at the digital receiver. The digital receiver includes an input for receiving an analogue signal, analogue signal processing circuitry for processing an analogue signal, and an output for providing the processed signal to a digital signal processor. The noise reduction system is located between the input and the digital receiver input, and includes a first component that outputs results of a noise signal identification and a second component that applies one or more counter-measure to the received analogue signal to produce a modified analogue signal. The modified analogue signal has a reduced level of noise compared to the received analogue signal, wherein the noise reduction system is arranged to assess the effectiveness of the one or more counter-measures applied by the second component to determine whether any further counter-measures are required.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for classifying actions in a video. One of the methods obtaining a feature representation of a video clip; obtaining data specifying a plurality of candidate agent bounding boxes in the key video frame; and for each candidate agent bounding box: processing the feature representation through an action transformer neural network.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for processing a network input using a trained neural network with network parameters to generate an output for a machine learning task. The training includes: receiving a set of training examples each including a training network input and a reference output; for each training iteration, generating a corrupted network input for each training network input using a corruption neural network; updating perturbation parameters of the corruption neural network using a first objective function based on the corrupted network inputs; generating an updated corrupted network input for each training network input based on the updated perturbation parameters; and generating a network output for each updated corrupted network input using the neural network; for each training example, updating the network parameters using a second objective function based on the network output and the reference output.