Abstract: A system and method access domain information indicating placement domains for an information handling system. The placement domains may include fault domains and optimization domains, wherein an optimization domain includes one or more resources wherein a tier instance for each tier of a multi-tier application service resource can be instantiated such that inter-tier communication is internal to the domain. Tier instances may be placed in accordance with the placement domains to achieve compliance with high availability and performance objectives. Management endpoints corresponding to each resource may be monitored and, responsive to detecting a change in the infrastructure, updated domain information indicative of updated placement domains may be accessed and used to determine whether the placement of the tier instances achieves compliance with the objectives.

Abstract: A structural lightweight concrete composition comprising cement, a fine aggregate such as sand, a natural coarse aggregates, such as limestone, scoria or perlite or mixtures thereof, a synthetic coarse aggregate comprising a polymeric material, such as polypropylene beads, an industrial waste byproduct in the form of fine particles, such as silica fume or heavy oil ash, a superplasticizer, such as a polycarboxylate ether and water demonstrating lower thermal conductivity and sufficient compressive strength. Concrete products made therefrom and methods for producing such products are also provided.

Abstract: A structural lightweight concrete composition comprising cement, a fine aggregate such as sand, a natural coarse aggregates, such as limestone, scoria or perlite or mixtures thereof, a synthetic coarse aggregate comprising a polymeric material, such as polypropylene beads, an industrial waste byproduct in the form of fine particles, such as silica fume or heavy oil ash, a superplasticizer, such as a polycarboxylate ether and water demonstrating lower thermal conductivity and sufficient compressive strength. Concrete products made therefrom and methods for producing such products are also provided.

Abstract: A structural lightweight concrete composition comprising cement, a fine aggregate such as sand, a natural coarse aggregates, such as limestone, scoria or perlite or mixtures thereof, a synthetic coarse aggregate comprising a polymeric material, such as polypropylene beads, an industrial waste byproduct in the form of fine particles, such as silica fume or heavy oil ash, a superplasticizer, such as a polycarboxylate ether and water demonstrating lower thermal conductivity and sufficient compressive strength. Concrete products made therefrom and methods for producing such products are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for transforming machine language models for a production environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing device comprising at least one computer processor, a method for transforming machine language models for a production environment may include: (1) receiving, from a software development environment, a machine language model in a first language; (2) transforming the machine language model from the first language to a second language; (3) validating the transformed model in an operational environment; and (4) deploying the transformed model to a production environment.

Abstract: A configuration management resource manages the solution-level configuration of an infrastructure that includes a plurality of deployed information handling resources. The management resource has access to a master manifest, corresponding to the solution infrastructure, that identifies one or more baselined configurations of the solution infrastructure. The master manifest may include a resource type identifier corresponding to each resource deployed in the infrastructure. For each resource type, the manifest may identify all compliance-capable resources, one or more baselined components for each of said resources, and one or more baseline-required attributes for each of said components. The management resource may register resource specific plugins to implement a standard set of REST-compliant methods.

Abstract: A turbocharger control system of a vehicle includes a trigger module that generates a trigger signal when a transmission of the vehicle is in one of (i) park and (ii) neutral. A wastegate target module, in response to the generation of the trigger signal, sets a target opening of a turbocharger wastegate to a predetermined opening and independently of a position of an accelerator pedal. The predetermined opening is greater than zero percent opening of the turbocharger wastegate. A wastegate actuator module actuates the turbocharger wastegate based on the target opening of the turbocharger wastegate.

Abstract: Provided are methods controlling systems including a turbocharger configured to compress air for an engine, a cooler configured to receive turbocharged compressed air, a radiator, a coolant circuit for circulating coolant between the cooler and the radiator and including a bypass to manipulate coolant flow through the cooler. The methods include closing the bypass when engine speed and/or load exceeds a threshold, and otherwise one or more of reducing coolant flow through the cooler when the coolant temperature entering the cooler is higher than the compressed air temperature entering the cooler, manipulating coolant flow through the cooler based on the temperature of the compressed air received by the engine, and reducing coolant flow through the cooler when the temperature of the coolant entering the radiator is less than a temperature of the ambient air. Reducing coolant flow through the cooler reduces the coolant pressure drop within the coolant circuit.

Abstract: An infrastructure services manager accesses resource description information identifying a plurality of information handling resources and a management endpoint corresponding to each of the resources. Management information for each resource is retrieved from each management endpoint and an infrastructure of the system is determined based on the management information. Placement domains, including optimization domains and fault domains, within the infrastructure are discovered. A domain description document identifying each placement domain, its type, and the server resources included may be generated. The endpoints may be monitored and, when an infrastructure change is detected, placement domains may be re-discovered.

Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes a body with a central plane extending vertically along a longitudinal center of the body, with first and second sides on opposing sides of the central plane. The vehicle additionally includes a first movable member coupled to the first side. The first movable member has a first stowed position and a first deployed position. In the first deployed position the first movable member induces a first pressure differential between the first side and the second side. The vehicle also includes a first actuator configured to move the first movable member between the first stowed position and the first deployed position. The vehicle further includes a controller configured to, in response to satisfaction of a first operating condition, control the first actuator to move the first movable member from the first stowed position to the first deployed position.

Abstract: An operational integrity and performance validation module performs operational integrity operations, performance validation operations, or both. Operational integrity operations may include: accessing an operational integrity schema comprising a task manifest identifying operational tasks and a performance manifest including performance thresholds for the tasks. The OIPV module communicates with different types of infrastructure managers and each schema may be associated with a particular infrastructure manager. The OIPV module may invoke the applicable infrastructure manager to perform the applicable tasks. For each task, the module may poll the infrastructure manager for status information and record completion status and time-to-complete information.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a compressor wheel configured to pressurize an airflow for delivery to an internal combustion engine. The turbocharger also includes a turbine wheel configured to be driven by the engine's post-combustion gases and drive the compressor wheel. The turbocharger additionally includes a waste-gate assembly. The waste-gate assembly includes a first waste-gate valve and a second waste-gate valve, wherein each of the first and second waste-gate valves is configured to selectively redirect at least a portion of the post-combustion gases away from the turbine wheel into the exhaust passage. A vehicle having an internal combustion engine operatively connected to such a turbocharger and also employing a controller configured to regulate the first and second waste-gate valves is also disclosed.

Abstract: A configuration management resource manages the solution-level configuration of an infrastructure that includes a plurality of deployed information handling resources. The management resource has access to a master manifest, corresponding to the solution infrastructure, that identifies one or more baselined configurations of the solution infrastructure. The master manifest may include a resource type identifier corresponding to each resource deployed in the infrastructure. For each resource type, the manifest may identify all compliance-capable resources, one or more baselined components for each of said resources, and one or more baseline-required attributes for each of said components. The management resource may register resource specific plugins to implement a standard set of REST-compliant methods.

Abstract: An infrastructure manager for an information handling system is disclosed. The infrastructure manager includes a solution property extractor service, a data store, and a visualization engine. The solution property extractor service may extract solution details from a solution template queried from a solution template repository and may transform the solution details into a document. The solution details may include infrastructure information and workload information from the solution template. The data store may store the document. The visualization engine may access the data store to extract components required by the document, determine whether the existing components of the information handling system correlate to the components required by the document, and display the recommended workload.

Abstract: A vehicle powertrain includes an engine having an air intake system and an exhaust system. A turbocharger includes a turbine section connected to the exhaust system and a compressor section connected to the air intake system. A wastegate is disposed in the exhaust system and movable between an open and a closed position by an actuator system. The actuator system includes a gear mechanism for moving the waste gate from a closed to an open position and including a pair of noncircular gears.

Abstract: A disclosed system generates a baseline configuration manifest indicative of a known good state of a plurality of information handling modules. Configuration update information indicating updates to the modules and dependencies between or among the information handling modules is received. The information handling system may then be updated in accordance with the configuration update information. The baseline configuration manifest may include a plurality of module manifests corresponding to the plurality of information handling modules and updating the information handling system may include updating the one or more information handling modules in a sequence determined by update sequence information. The configuration update information may include one or more update payloads corresponding to one or more of the information handling modules. In such cases, updating the information handling system may include providing each of update payload to its corresponding information handling module.

Abstract: An operational integrity and performance validation module performs operational integrity operations, performance validation operations, or both. Operational integrity operations may include: accessing an operational integrity schema comprising a task manifest identifying operational tasks and a performance manifest including performance thresholds for the tasks. The OIPV module communicates with different types of infrastructure managers and each schema may be associated with a particular infrastructure manager. The OIPV module may invoke the applicable infrastructure manager to perform the applicable tasks. For each task, the module may poll the infrastructure manager for status information and record completion status and time-to-complete information.

Abstract: Disclosed methods and systems discover trust and security information indicative of trust and security capabilities of information handling resources. Based on the trust and security information and a corresponding algorithm, a trust index may be calculated for a particular system. Trust index values may be used to influence subsequent placements of virtual machines, application services, or other objects. Discovery may include invoking resource-specific trust and security discovery adapters to access a resource manifest indicating an interface and trust and discovery artifacts associated with the resource of interest and determine which, if any, of the applicable trust and discovery artifacts are implemented in the applicable system.

Abstract: A vehicle powertrain includes an engine having an air intake system and an exhaust system. A turbocharger includes a turbine section connected to the exhaust system and a compressor section connected to the air intake system. A wastegate is disposed in the exhaust system and movable between an open and a closed position by an actuator system. The actuator system includes an engagement device and detent mechanism for assisting with holding the wastegate in the closed position.

Abstract: A storage management method includes obtaining storage configuration information corresponding to a storage infrastructure of an information handling system, determining, from the storage configuration information, one or more storage and isolation fault domains within the storage infrastructure, wherein each of the one or more storage and isolation fault domains comprises an independently available and physically isolated storage resource, and placing an application workload data store within the storage infrastructure in accordance with the storage and isolation fault domains to comply with a physical isolation requirement applicable to the data store.