Abstract: The present invention relates to an electroplating bath comprising (A) an alkane sulfonic acid or alkanol sulfonic acid; (B) a soluble metal salt of alkane sulfonic acid or alkanol sulfonic acid; and (C) at least one additive selected from—polyether derivatives of formula (I),—sulfonated or sulfated polyether derivatives of formula (II) or—any combinations thereof, wherein the groups in formulae (I) and (II) are as defined in the description and claims. The present invention also relates to a process for refining metal and a process for controlling morphology of metal deposited on cathode in electrolytic refining of the metal, which comprise using the electroplating bath according to the present invention.

Abstract: A memory pool management method includes: allocating a plurality of memory pools in a memory device according to information about a plurality of computing units, wherein the computing units are independently executed on a same processor; and assigning one of the memory pools to one of the computing units, wherein at least one of the memory pools is shared among different computing units of the computing units.

Abstract: A computing system includes a plurality of processing circuits and a storage device. The processing circuits have at least a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit. The storage device is shared between at least the first processing circuit and the second processing circuit. The first processing circuit performs a whole cache flush operation to prepare exchange data in the storage device. The second processing circuit gets the exchange data from the storage device.

Abstract: A nonlinear optical composition and a method of forming the nonlinear optical composition are disclosed. The nonlinear optical composition includes a silicon-containing component and a nonlinear optical component which causes the nonlinear optical composition to exhibit second order nonlinear optical polarization of electromagnetic radiation, such as light. The method includes forming a sol of the silicon-containing component and the nonlinear optical component of the composition. A gel is formed from the sol. The nonlinear optical component is then poled while the gel is exposed to conditions sufficient to cause formation of a nonlinear optical composition which exhibits second order nonlinear optical polarization of electromagnetic radiation.