Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with embedded computing, are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an embedded computing platform includes a plurality of system-on-chips (SoCs) forming a local compute cluster; and an orchestrator disposed on one of the SoCs arranged to orchestrate fail-safe operations, in response to a reported unrecoverable failure requiring shut down or partial disabling of one of the SoCs, to consolidate execution of critical workloads on one or more of remaining fully or partially operational ones of the SoCs. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a system-on-chip (SoC) to be disposed in a vehicle having a plurality of cores; a hypervisor arranged to partition the cores into at least two domains, an operational domain and a failover domain; a first operating system (OS) arranged to manage execution of at least a first application in the operational domain to provide a first plurality of functions for the vehicle; a second OS arranged to manage execution of at least a second application in the failover domain to provide a second plurality of functions for the vehicle, on occurrence of a failure of the first application. The second functions comprise a subset of the first functions or less embellished versions of some of the first functions, and the second OS has less capabilities than the first OS. Other embodiments, including storage media and methods, are also described and claimed.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with embedded computing, are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an embedded computing platform includes a plurality of system-on-chips (SoCs) forming a local compute cluster; and an orchestrator disposed on one of the SoCs arranged to orchestrate fail-safe operations, in response to a reported unrecoverable failure requiring shut down or partial disabling of one of the SoCs, to consolidate execution of critical workloads on one or more of remaining fully or partially operational ones of the SoCs. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a system-on-chip (SoC) to be disposed in a vehicle having a plurality of cores; a hypervisor arranged to partition the cores into at least two domains, an operational domain and a failover domain; a first operating system (OS) arranged to manage execution of at least a first application in the operational domain to provide a first plurality of functions for the vehicle; a second OS arranged to manage execution of at least a second application in the failover domain to provide a second plurality of functions for the vehicle, on occurrence of a failure of the first application. The second functions comprise a subset of the first functions or less embellished versions of some of the first functions, and the second OS has less capabilities than the first OS. Other embodiments, including storage media and methods, are also described and claimed.

Abstract: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to handshake with an operating system to indicate a network connection state at about the time a driver is initialized, or when a state of network disconnection is sensed. A wireless network connection may be opened at about the time a request from the operating system to utilize the network is received.