Abstract: A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a first storage cluster, the first storage cluster having a first plurality of storage nodes coupled together and a second storage cluster, the second storage cluster having a second plurality of storage nodes coupled together. The system includes an interconnect coupling the first storage cluster and the second storage cluster and a first pathway coupling the interconnect to each storage cluster. The system includes a second pathway, the second pathway coupling at least one fabric module within a chassis to each blade within the chassis.

Abstract: A redundant array of independent drives (RAID) stripe is formed across a set of storage controllers of a plurality of storage controllers, wherein the RAID stripe comprises two or more of a plurality of modular storage devices of at least one of the set of storage controllers. The RAID stripe is written across the set of storage controllers.

Abstract: Dynamically configuring a storage system to facilitate independent scaling of resources, including: detecting a change to a topology of the storage system consisting of different sets of blades configured within one of a plurality of chassis; and reconfiguring the storage system to change an allocation of resources to one or more authorities responsive to detecting the change to the topology of the storage system.

Abstract: One example method includes receiving a quantum circuit for execution on a QPU (quantum processing unit), assigning qubits of the QPU to logical qubits of the quantum circuit, automatically adding, to the quantum circuit, one or more remaining qubits of the QPU as canary qubits, transmitting the quantum circuit to the QPU for execution, and transmitting one or more gate sequences to the QPU for execution by the canary qubits, and execution of the quantum circuit and execution of the gate sequences collectively comprise a single shot.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for enabling bulk file system operations through a single client-side interaction. The method includes exposing, to a client system, a special file system object associated with a snapshot action and a bulk deletion action at a data storage system. A message received via a network file system access protocol is used to detect an interaction between the special file system object and a target file system object representing multiple files. In response, the data storage system generates a snapshot of the target object and its associated files and performs a bulk deletion of the target object and the files.

Abstract: A robot cart may receive input that identifies a user who will use the autonomous robot cart to hold one or more items that the user has selected. A robot cart may manage in real-time an inventory of the one or more items that the user has selected. A robot cart may provide a running total of a cost of the one or more items that the user has selected. A robot cart may move the one or more items that the user has selected to a check-out location of a retail location so that the user is able to purchase the one or more items.

Abstract: A method for a transactional commit in a storage unit is provided. The method includes receiving a logical record from a storage node into a transaction engine of a storage unit of the storage node and writing the logical record into a data structure of the transaction engine. The method includes writing, to a command queue of the transaction engine, an indication to perform an atomic update using the logical record and transferring each portion of the logical record from the data structure of the transaction engine to non-persistent memory of the storage unit as a committed transaction. A storage unit for a storage system is also provided.

Abstract: One or more operations to be performed by a storage system are identified by a first storage node having a processing device and one or more authorities that determine types of erasure coding applied to data stored in the storage system. One or more instructions are transmitted to a second storage node to perform the one or more storage operations, wherein the one or more instructions cause the one or more operations to be performed by the second storage node.

Abstract: A method implemented at a computing system for detecting anomalies in video frames. The method includes a temporal dependency machine-learning (ML) model determining a set of temporal features that encapsulate temporal dependencies across received video frames at the computing system; A semantic injection ML model injects semantic information into the set of temporal features to thereby generate a set of enhanced temporal features. The semantic information defines contextual information about visual content of the received video frames.

Abstract: A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure coding, despite loss of two of the storage nodes. The method includes determining that one of the storage nodes is unreachable and determining to rebuild the user data for the one of the storage nodes that is unreachable. The method includes reading the user data across a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding and writing the user data across the remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding. A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis that can proactively rebuild the user data stored within the storage nodes is also provided.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for simulating user input for applying a tip in a cardless transaction. A message indicating a tip amount related to an electronic transaction is received at a first module in a point-of-sale (POS) system. The tip amount is communicated from the first module to a second module in the POS system wherein communicating includes, without user input at the POS system: simulating a first sequence of user inputs and a second sequence of user inputs; transmitting, to the second module, first data indicating the first sequence, the transmitting causing the second module to enter a state appropriate for receiving the tip amount; and transmitting, to the second module, second data indicating the second sequence, the second sequence representing the tip amount. The data of the electronic payment transaction is updated by the second module to reflect the tip amount.

Abstract: A hollow glass article is a container or part of a vessel having a neck or shoulder region and a wall. The glass article encompasses the wall and the neck or shoulder region of the container. The wall has a round or oval cross section and the container has a characteristic surface region on an outer glass surface of the hollow glass article. The following applies for a ratio between a mean tangential gradient value and a mean axial gradient value in the characteristic surface region: mean tangential gradient value/mean axial gradient value <0.6.

Abstract: An exemplary system includes a storage system controller configured to receive requests to read and write data; a flash-based storage device providing an application programming interface (API) for the storage system controller to read and write to flash blocks at the direction of the storage controller; a storage device providing non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) configured to provide staging for pending writes to flash memory of the flash-based storage device to ensure that partially completed writes to the flash memory of the flash-based storage device can be completed subsequent to an interruption of the writes to the flash memory of the flash-based storage device. The storage system controller is further configured to determine that a particular write is associated with a checkpoint, and instruct, based on the determining, the flash-based storage device to store data of the particular write to the flash memory, bypassing writing to the NVRAM.

Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh-based environmental augmentation are presented. Attribute data associated with a user may be received from a plurality of attribute sources. A portion of the attribute data may include real-time data. A portion of the real-time data indicative of an identity of the user may be identified. The identity of the user may be authenticated with respect to the real-time data by analyzing the identified portion of the real-time data. Based on the authentication of the identity of the user, a user activity being performed by the user may be identified based on the real-time data, and the user activity may be augmented according to a user setting.

Abstract: The embodiments provide for a method and system for dynamic configuration of a storage system to facilitate independent scaling of resources. The method and system include detecting a change to a topology of a storage system consisting of different sets of storage nodes, where at least one of the different sets of storage nodes has solid-state memory having differing storage capacities. Responsive to detecting the change, the storage system reconfigures to change an allocation of resources to one or more authorities that control a range of identifiers.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting anomalous integrated circuits (ICs) are provided. An electrical signature for each of multiple reference ICs are created using a resonator. Each IC may be associated with a different model or manufacturer. Later, when an IC that is suspected of being anomalous is received, its signature is generated and compared with a previously generated signature for an IC of the same make and manufacturer. When the signatures differ by more than a threshold amount, then the IC may be determined to be anomalous. In some embodiments, the generated signatures may be used to train a model that can determine whether an IC is anomalous based on its generated signature or can identify the make and manufacturer of an IC based on its generated signature.

Abstract: A storage system controller receives a command from a cloud service through an edge device associated with a storage system. In response to receiving the command, the storage system controller invokes a storage system application programming interface (API). The storage system controller then performs a storage operation based on the invoked API. This architecture enables a cloud service to manage storage system operations through the edge device while execution of the operations occurs within the storage system.

Abstract: A ballistic resistant panel assembly, includes a plurality of ballistic resistant plies positioned in a stack. The assembly further includes: a binding layer, which includes at least two layers of material, wherein a first portion of the binding layer extends along and overlying a first ply in the stack, a second portion of the binding layer extends from the first portion of the binding layer and extends along peripheral edges of a less than all of the plurality of ballistic resistant plies in the stack; and a third portion of the binding layer extends from the second portion of the binding layer and extends along a second ballistic resistant ply in the stack, such that the second ballistic resistant ply is positioned between the first ballistic resistant ply and the third portion of the binding layer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting anomalous integrated circuits (ICs) are provided. An electrical signature for each of multiple reference ICs are created using a resonator. Each IC may be associated with a different model or manufacturer. Later, when an IC that is suspected of being anomalous is received, its signature is generated and compared with a previously generated signature for an IC of the same make and manufacturer. When the signatures differ by more than a threshold amount, then the IC may be determined to be anomalous. In some embodiments, the generated signatures may be used to train a model that can determine whether an IC is anomalous based on its generated signature or can identify the make and manufacturer of an IC based on its generated signature.

Abstract: A method for a transactional commit in a storage unit is provided. The method includes receiving a logical record from a storage node into a transaction engine of a storage unit of the storage node and writing the logical record into a data structure of the transaction engine. The method includes writing, to a command queue of the transaction engine, an indication to perform an atomic update using the logical record and transferring each portion of the logical record from the data structure of the transaction engine to non-persistent memory of the storage unit as a committed transaction. A storage unit for a storage system is also provided.