Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to enhanced power management for support of priority system events. An embodiment of a system includes a processing element; a memory including a registry for information regarding one or more system events that are designated as priority events; a mechanism to track operation of events that requires Turbo mode operation for execution; and a power control unit to implement a power management algorithm. The system is to maintain an first energy budget and a second residual energy budget for operation in a Turbo power mode, and wherein the power management algorithm is to determine whether to authorize execution of a detected system event in the Turbo power mode based on the second residual energy budget upon determining that the first energy budget is not sufficient for execution of the detected system event and that the detected system event is designated as a priority event.

Abstract: A data processing system implements techniques for provisioning and operating databases including receiving a request to provision a new database that includes multiple replicas. The data processing system provisions the new database including the plurality of replicas. The plurality of replicas includes a primary replica, one or more secondary replicas, and one or more delta replicas. The primary replica is configured to handle read and write operations. The one or more secondary replicas include a copy of data and transactional log information of the primary replica and are unable to handle write operations. The one or more delta replicas are a copy of the transactional log information of the primary replica and are unable to handle read operations or write operations.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to enhanced power management for support of priority system events. An embodiment of a system includes a processing element; a memory including a registry for information regarding one or more system events that are designated as priority events; a mechanism to track operation of events that requires Turbo mode operation for execution; and a power control unit to implement a power management algorithm. The system is to maintain an first energy budget and a second residual energy budget for operation in a Turbo power mode, and wherein the power management algorithm is to determine whether to authorize execution of a detected system event in the Turbo power mode based on the second residual energy budget upon determining that the first energy budget is not sufficient for execution of the detected system event and that the detected system event is designated as a priority event.

Abstract: A data processing system implements techniques for provisioning and operating databases including receiving a request to provision a new database that includes multiple replicas. The data processing system provisions the new database including the plurality of replicas. The plurality of replicas includes a primary replica, one or more secondary replicas, and one or more delta replicas. The primary replica is configured to handle read and write operations. The one or more secondary replicas include a copy of data and transactional log information of the primary replica and are unable to handle write operations. The one or more delta replicas are a copy of the transactional log information of the primary replica and are unable to handle read operations or write operations.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide for a pre-validation of various aspects of an application deployment before any resources are provisioned in a user account. Pre-validation can perform checks on aspects such as connectivity and credential-based access for instances to be provisioned in a user account. These checks can be performed through an application wizard or deployment service that can collect information though a single console, and can ensure that these checks succeed before the requested instances are provisioned in the user account.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to enhanced power management for support of priority system events. An embodiment of a system includes a processing element; a memory including a registry for information regarding one or more system events that are designated as priority events; a mechanism to track operation of events that requires Turbo mode operation for execution; and a power control unit to implement a power management algorithm. The system is to maintain an first energy budget and a second residual energy budget for operation in a Turbo power mode, and wherein the power management algorithm is to determine whether to authorize execution of a detected system event in the Turbo power mode based on the second residual energy budget upon determining that the first energy budget is not sufficient for execution of the detected system event and that the detected system event is designated as a priority event.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to enhanced power management for support of priority system events. An embodiment of a system includes a processing element; a memory including a registry for information regarding one or more system events that are designated as priority events; a mechanism to track operation of events that requires Turbo mode operation for execution; and a power control unit to implement a power management algorithm. The system is to maintain an first energy budget and a second residual energy budget for operation in a Turbo power mode, and wherein the power management algorithm is to determine whether to authorize execution of a detected system event in the Turbo power mode based on the second residual energy budget upon determining that the first energy budget is not sufficient for execution of the detected system event and that the detected system event is designated as a priority event.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide for a pre-validation of various aspects of an application deployment before any resources are provisioned in a user account. Pre-validation can perform checks on aspects such as connectivity and credential-based access for instances to be provisioned in a user account. A determination can also be made as to whether a role exists in the user account that has the appropriate policies and permissions to enable these instances, if provisioned, to have access to external services and resources needed to support the application. These checks can be performed through a launch wizard or deployment service that can collect information though a single console, and can ensure that these checks succeed before the requested instances are provisioned in the user account.

Abstract: An example compute node is disclosed that includes a plurality of processor cores. The example further includes an operating system (OS) having an OS power management (OSPM) engine to determine that a first of the plurality of processor cores has entered an idle state; and a system management mode (SMM) handler to detect a system management interrupt (SMI) and transition control of hardware resources of the first processor core from the OS to a basic input output system (BIOS) to enter a system management mode (SMM) in order to perform one or more platform management operations.

Abstract: A method is described. The method includes determining that a first of a plurality of processor cores in a multi-processor computing system has entered an idle state, triggering a SMI for the first processor core, the first processor core entering a system management mode (SMM) and performing one or more platform management operations.

Abstract: Data-aware orchestration with respect to a distributed system platform enables at least lifting and shifting of pre-existing applications and associated data without developer action. A volume of a local store is created automatically in response to a container comprising a user application that is non-native with respect to the distributed system platform. The volume is then exposed to the container for use by the application to save and retrieve data. The container and local store are co-located on a compute node providing at least high availability. The application and local store can be duplicated on one or more replicas providing reliability in case of a failure. Further, partitions can be created automatically in response to declarative specification.

Abstract: Technologies for processor core soft-offlining include a computing device having a processor with multiple processor cores. On boot, an operating system queries a firmware interface to retrieve a potential offline set of processor cores. The operating system prevents the processor cores of the potential offline set from receiving device interrupts. The computing device detects a platform management event from the firmware interface and, in response to the platform management event, queries the firmware interface to determine a requested offline set of processor cores. Each of the processor cores in the requested offline set is included in the potential offline set. The computing device brings the processor cores of the requested offline set into a low-power state, and then the computing device may start performing a platform management operation. The platform management event may include a memory hot-plug event or a specialized workload event. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to enhanced power management for support of priority system events. An embodiment of a system includes a processing element; a memory including a registry for information regarding one or more system events that are designated as priority events; a mechanism to track operation of events that requires Turbo mode operation for execution; and a power control unit to implement a power management algorithm. The system is to maintain an first energy budget and a second residual energy budget for operation in a Turbo power mode, and wherein the power management algorithm is to determine whether to authorize execution of a detected system event in the Turbo power mode based on the second residual energy budget upon determining that the first energy budget is not sufficient for execution of the detected system event and that the detected system event is designated as a priority event.

Abstract: Data-aware orchestration with respect to a distributed system platform enables at least lifting and shifting of pre-existing applications and associated data without developer action. A volume of a local store is created automatically in response to a container comprising a user application that is non-native with respect to the distributed system platform. The volume is then exposed to the container for use by the application to save and retrieve data. The container and local store are co-located on a compute node providing at least high availability. The application and local store can be duplicated on one or more replicas providing reliability in case of a failure. Further, partitions can be created automatically in response to declarative specification.

Abstract: A heterogeneous processor architecture and a method of booting a heterogeneous processor is described. A processor according to one embodiment comprises: a set of large physical processor cores; a set of small physical processor cores having relatively lower performance processing capabilities and relatively lower power usage relative to the large physical processor cores; and a package unit, to enable a bootstrap processor. The bootstrap processor initializes the homogeneous physical processor cores, while the heterogeneous processor presents the appearance of a homogeneous processor to a system firmware interface.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to enhanced power management for support of priority system events. An embodiment of a system includes a processing element; a memory including a registry for information regarding one or more system events that are designated as priority events; a mechanism to track operation of events that requires Turbo mode operation for execution; and a power control unit to implement a power management algorithm. The system is to maintain an first energy budget and a second residual energy budget for operation in a Turbo power mode, and wherein the power management algorithm is to determine whether to authorize execution of a detected system event in the Turbo power mode based on the second residual energy budget upon determining that the first energy budget is not sufficient for execution of the detected system event and that the detected system event is designated as a priority event.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with scheduling of threads and/or virtual machines, are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus is provided with a scheduler of an operating system and/or a virtual machine monitor. The scheduler is to retrieve or receive capabilities of the cores of one or more multi-core processors of the apparatus with diverse capabilities, and schedule a plurality of threads for execution on selected one or ones of the cores, based at least in part on the capabilities of the cores and characteristics of the plurality of threads. The virtual machine monitor is to retrieve or receive capabilities of the cores, and schedule a plurality of virtual machines for execution on selected one or ones of the cores, based at least in part on the capabilities of the cores and respective priorities of the virtual machines. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: An exception handling system is described herein that provides one or more distinguished classes of software exceptions that are handled differently than other exceptions. The system treats a distinguished exception as a “hard to catch” exception that is not passed to the catch block of program code unless a developer performs extra steps to acknowledge the distinguished nature of the exception and confirm that the program code is prepared to properly handle the exception. Exceptions that fall into this class are typically those that represent conditions from which normal exception handling practices cannot successfully recover, namely exceptions that corrupt application state. Accordingly, the system prevents the developer from catching these classes of exceptions by default unless the developer explicitly requests to have these exceptions delivered to the program code. Thus, the exception handling system encourages correct programming practices by preventing developer error by default.

Abstract: Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for managing a digital certificate enrollment process. In particular, embodiments presented herein provide techniques for a certificate authority to issue short-lived SSL certificates and an authentication method for validating certificate signing requests (CSR) for short-lived certificates.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to enhanced power management for support of priority system events. An embodiment of a system includes a processing element; a memory including a registry for information regarding one or more system events that are designated as priority events; a mechanism to track operation of events that requires Turbo mode operation for execution; and a power control unit to implement a power management algorithm. The system is to maintain an first energy budget and a second residual energy budget for operation in a Turbo power mode, and wherein the power management algorithm is to determine whether to authorize execution of a detected system event in the Turbo power mode based on the second residual energy budget upon determining that the first energy budget is not sufficient for execution of the detected system event and that the detected system event is designated as a priority event.