Abstract: This document describes biochemical pathways for producing 7-aminoheptanoic acid using a ?-ketoacyl synthase or a ?-ketothiolase to form either a 5-amino-3-oxopentanoyl-[ACP] or 5-amino-3-oxopentanoyl-CoA intermediate. 7-aminoheptanoic acid can be enzymatically converted to pimelic acid, 7-hydroxyheptanoic acid, heptamethylenediamine or 1,7-heptanediol or the corresponding salts thereof. This document also describes recombinant microorganisms producing 7-aminoheptanoic acid as well as pimelic acid, 7-hydroxyheptanoic acid, heptamethylenediamine and 1,7-heptanediol or the corresponding salts thereof.

Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, system memory communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics processor communicatively coupled to the application processor, graphics memory communicatively coupled to the graphics processor, and persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics processor to store one or more graphics assets, wherein the graphics processor is to access the one or more graphics asset mapped from the persistent storage media. The persistent storage media may include a low latency, high capacity, and byte-addressable nonvolatile memory. The one or more graphics assets may include one or more of a mega-texture and terrain data. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a stencil value and uses the stencil value to control, via a stencil buffer, a coarse pixel size of a graphics pipeline. Additionally, the stencil value may include a first range of bits defining a first dimension of the coarse pixel size and a second range of bits defining a second dimension of the coarse pixel size. In one example, the coarse pixel size is controlled for a plurality of pixels on a per pixel basis.

Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor. The system may include one or more of a draw call re-orderer communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics subsystem to re-order two or more draw calls, a workload re-orderer communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics subsystem to re-order two or more work items in an order independent mode, a queue primitive included in at least one of the two or more draw calls to define a producer stage and a consumer stage, and an order-independent executor communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics subsystem to provide tile-based order independent execution of a compute stage. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Nonnaturally occurring organisms exhibiting improved carbon utilization and methods for production and use of these nonnaturally occurring organisms in chemical production from carbon containing feedstocks are provided.

Abstract: The systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to adaptively process and aggressively cull geometry data. Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for processing, by a positional only shading pipeline (POSH), geometry data including surface triangles for a digital representation of a scene. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to identify surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones and non-exclusion zones, and cull surface triangles surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones.

Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for determining a start time for an output image scanner to begin scanning an output image to a display device, determining a processing start time for each row of blocks of image pixel data within a rasterizer to ensure its completion before each row of blocks of image pixel data within the output image begin to be scanned out, and scheduling the start of processing of each row of blocks of image pixel data. In one example, the start time for the rasterizer to process a row of blocks of image pixel data uses the number of graphical objects to rendered into the output image and the processing times required by prior images.

Abstract: A computing system to obtain an output includes a multi-plane rendering module includes a renderer receives a plurality of graphical objects to generate one or more image planes of object data, a resampler upscales lower resolution image planes to a higher resolution used by the output image, and a rasterizer combine pixels from a common location in the plurality of image planes after each image plane is upsampled to the higher resolution. The renderer receives one of the graphical objects having a location value along a z-axis of the scene, determines which of a plurality of image planes the graphical objects is located using the z-axis location for the graphical object, each of the planes possess a corresponding image resolution, and renders the graphical object into the image plane at the image resolution corresponding determined image plane.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to collect user information for a user of a data processing device, generate a user profile for the user of the data processing device from the user information, and set a power profile a processor in the data processing device using the user profile. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for determining a start time for an output image scanner to begin scanning an output image to a display device, determining a processing start time for each row of blocks of image pixel data within a rasterizer to ensure its completion before each row of blocks of image pixel data within the output image begin to be scanned out, and scheduling the start of processing of each row of blocks of image pixel data. In one example, the start time for the rasterizer to process a row of blocks of image pixel data uses the number of graphical objects to rendered into the output image and the processing times required by prior images.

Abstract: Provided herein are novel, synthetic polypeptides having, for example, acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterase (TE) activity, including polypeptides that convert pimeloyl-ACP to pimelic acid. In some aspects, the synthetic polypeptides have advantageous enzymatic activity and/or improved substrate specificity relative to a wild type acyl-ACP TE.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to strategies for in vivo production of certain carbon-based products, for example, aminated aliphatic compounds having a carbon chain length of C5-C19.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies a redundant portion of a packaged on-die memory and detects, during a field test of the packaged on-die memory, one or more failed cells in the packaged on-die memory. Additionally, one or more memory cells in the redundant portion may be substituted for the one or more failed memory cells.

Abstract: Methods for increasing carbon-based chemical product yield in an organism by genetically modifying one or more genes involved in a stringent response and/or in a regulatory network, nonnaturally occurring organisms having increased carbon-based chemical product yield, and methods for use in production of carbon-based chemical products are provided.

Abstract: Methods for increasing carbon-based chemical product yield in an organism by increasing carbon uptake and/or altering a pathway to or from an overflow metabolite in the organism, nonnaturally occurring organisms having increased carbon-based chemical product yield with increased carbon uptake and/or an altered pathway to or from an overflow metabolite, and methods for producing a carbon-based chemical product with these organisms are provided.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to process graphics data in a virtual gaming environment. The technology may identify, from graphics data in a graphics application, redundant graphics calculations relating to common frame characteristics of one or more graphical scenes to be shared between client game devices of a plurality of users and calculate, in response to the identified redundant graphics calculations, frame characteristics relating to the one or more graphical scenes. Additionally, the technology may send, over a computer network, the calculation of the frame characteristics to the client game devices.

Abstract: A computing system to obtain an output includes a multi-plane rendering module includes a renderer receives a plurality of graphical objects to generate one or more image planes of object data, a resampler upscales lower resolution image planes to a higher resolution used by the output image, and a rasterizer combine pixels from a common location in the plurality of image planes after each image plane is upsampled to the higher resolution. The renderer receives one of the graphical objects having a location value along a z-axis of the scene, determines which of a plurality of image planes the graphical objects is located using the z-axis location for the graphical object, each of the planes possess a corresponding image resolution, and renders the graphical object into the image plane at the image resolution corresponding determined image plane.

Abstract: Nonnaturally occurring host cells altered to increase their ability to transfer genetic molecules into the host cells as compared to an unaltered host cell are provided. Also provided are methods for identifying endogenous loci of a host cell which inhibit transformation efficiency and/or electroporation of genetic molecules into the cell as well as methods for producing nonnaturally occurring host cells with enhanced transformation efficiency and/or the modified ability to allow for genomic integration of an exogenous DNA sequence via electroporation. Methods for producing biochemicals and products produced with the nonnaturally occurring host cells are also provided. In particular, a host Cupriavidus necator cell is provided in which a chromosomal gene encoding a restriction endonuclease has been disrupted, leading to an increase in transformation efficiency.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality and virtual reality (VR/AR) environment information. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to selectively suppress and enhance VR/AR renderings of n-dimensional environments. The systems, apparatuses and methods may deepen a user's VR/AR experience by focusing on particular feedback information, while suppressing other feedback information from the environment.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) sensory enhancements using ray tracing. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to normalize environment information captured by multiple capture devices, and calculate, for an observer, the sound sources or sensed events vector paths. The systems, apparatuses and methods may detect and/or manage one or more capture devices and assign one or more the capture devices based on one or more conditions to provide observer an immersive VR/AR experience.