Abstract: A method for implementing collective communication, a computer device, and a communication system are provided, to resolve problems of high communication latency and resource consumption in the conventional technology. The method includes: identifying a work request having no communication dependency, and when forwarding work requests, directly forwarding the work request identified as having no communication dependency, and forwarding, after queue management, a work request that is not identified as having no communication dependency. According to the application, communication latency caused when the work request having no communication dependency is managed by using a queue can be avoided, and resource consumption caused by performing related management can be reduced, to improve overall communication performance of collective communication.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing improved and interactive product documentations are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes providing a documentation page to a computing device. The documentation page may include an identifier of a data environment associated with the documentation page. A request may be received to display the data environment and data associated with the data environment may be retrieved from a database associated with the computing device. The data environment may be created based on the retrieved data and provided to the computing device for display.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a dynamic production scheduling method, apparatus and electronic device based on deep reinforcement learning, which relate to the technical field of Industrial Internet of Things, and can reduce the overall processing time of jobs on the basis of not exceeding the processing capacity of production device.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to steal work in heterogeneous computing systems. An apparatus includes load balancing circuitry to obtain tasks from a workload by encoding minimum and maximum index ranges of a data parallel operation, allocate a first task from the workload to a first work queue based on a first capability of first computation circuitry, the first computation circuitry to process the first task in the first work queue, and allocate a second task from the workload to a second work queue, second computation circuitry to process the second task in the second work queue. The apparatus further includes first work stealer logic to steal the second task from the second work queue using an atomic operation to access the second work queue.

Abstract: Techniques are described for ensuring end-to-end fair-share resource utilization during cross-region replication. In certain embodiments, a fair-share architecture is used for communication among pipeline stages performing a cross-region replication between different cloud infrastructure regions. Cross-region replication-related jobs are distributed evenly from a pipeline stage into a temporary buffer in the fair-share architecture, and then further distributed evenly form the fair-share architecture to parallel running threads of next pipeline stage for execute. Techniques for static and dynamic resource allocations are also disclosed.

Abstract: Proposed is a system for executing a task of an operating system for a vehicle, the system including: a task information extracting unit which, when an event signal is received from an application, extracts task information related to the event signal from a pre-prepared event chain table; an execution cycle setting unit which sets a task execution cycle by using the extracted task information; a task executing unit which executes any one task among a plurality of tasks according to the task execution cycle; and a waiting time providing unit which provides a task waiting time to the task executing unit so as to wait for execution of a next task when the execution of the one task is completed.

Abstract: A systolic array includes a plurality of basic computation units arranged in a matrix. A basic computation includes a feature input register configured to store first feature data, a result buffer configured to store first temporary data, a comparator connected to the feature input register and the result buffer, and a control register connected to the feature input register, the result buffer, and the comparator. The comparator is configured to compare the first feature data input with the first temporary data successively. The control register is configured to control the first feature data of the feature input register and the first temporary data to be input to the comparator, output a comparison result to the result buffer and a feature input register of a next basic computation unit, and after sorting, output the first temporary data last stored in the result buffer as a first data result.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product to synchronize processing across multiple lanes. In a system, a synchronizing interface network controller (SINC) communicates with a plurality of processors. Each processor executes an application having thread(s) of operation. Each processor notifies the SINC when a specific thread is ready to perform a respective operation. The SINC releases the processors to perform the respective operation upon being notified by all processors that the specific thread is ready to perform the respective operation. Each processor is configured to monitor for the release of the processors and to also determine whether sufficient time remains within a time window to perform the respective operation. If insufficient time remains, a processor notifies the SINC that the specific thread is no longer ready to perform the respective operation. If the processors are released by the SINC while sufficient time remains, each processor performs the respective operation.

Abstract: A system-on-chip includes a processor, a memory and a memory interface coupled to the processor and to the memory. The processor, in operation, generates memory access requests. The memory includes one or more physical banks divided into a succession of sectors, each sector having a size equal to a smallest erasable size of the memory. The memory interface, in operation, responds to receiving memory configuration information by storing logical memory bank configuration information in the one or more configuration registers, the logical memory bank configuration information assigning each sector of the one or more physical banks of the memory to a respective logical memory bank of one or more logical memory banks. The memory interface, in operation, controls access to the memory by the processor based on the logical memory bank configuration information stored in the one or more configuration registers.

Abstract: A software agent executing on a computing device receives a request from a client to provide data associated with neighboring devices to the computing device. The client includes a scan engine to perform a network scan of a network that includes the computing device. The software agent accesses device data in a cache of an operating system command, determines, based on the device data, an identifier associated with each device that is neighboring the computing device, converts the device data into a standardized format to create neighboring device data, and sends the neighboring device data to the client.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for performing server device updates using update baselines that are tagged across multiple management consoles. One method comprises obtaining, by a first management console of multiple management consoles associated with a server device, a first update baseline comprising a first tag identifier, of multiple tag identifiers, that identifies a first update of a component of the server device across the multiple management consoles; and applying the first update baseline to the server device in a maintenance mode to update the component of the server device, wherein the server device is maintained in the maintenance mode when two or more of the tag identifiers are active in the server device following the application of the first update baseline. The server device can be restored from the maintenance mode when only one tag identifier is active in the server device following the application of the first update baseline.

Abstract: An apparatus for use by a mobile edge control element or function, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry, and memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the memory and the instructions are configured to, with the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus to: receive and process an event report indicating that location information of a communication element communicating in a communication network are provided, check location related application information for determining whether or not a relationship of at least one application to a location corresponding to the location information indicated in the event report is present, prepare, in case the check is affirmative, an application identification indication for indicating at least one location area where location information of the communication element is of relevance for a processing conducted by at least one application, and ensure that the communication element is informed about the application identificati

Abstract: In some examples, a system includes an operating system (OS) kernel, one or more hardware processors, and a kernel scheduler. The kernel scheduler receives a first indication that a first thread is to wait for an event, receives a second indication that the first thread has transitioned to a blocked state in which the first thread is blocked on the event, and receives a third indication from a second thread delivering the event, the third indication to unblock the first thread. In response to the third indication, the kernel scheduler causes a transition of the first thread from the wait state to an active state if the first thread is in the wait state and has not yet transitioned to the blocked state, and causes a transition of the first thread from the blocked state to a ready state if the first thread is in the blocked state.

Abstract: Methods and systems that facilitate automatic generation of Application Programming Interface (API) specification from web traffic. Methods include obtaining a plurality of API requests and responses to the plurality of API requests. Methods include processing these API requests and responses to API requests to identify one or more attributes, such as, for example, variables, query parameters, response status codes, and response schemas. Methods include identifying variables using a tree data structure to represent resource paths. Methods include identifying query parameters based on resource items in resource paths. Methods include determining that the API call does not conform to the API specification by comparing one or more attributes of the API call with the attributes of the API specification.

Abstract: A request to configure a connect cluster including one or more connectors for a cloud computing system is received. The request include a desired connector state. A connector specification file is automatically generated based on the desired connector state for the connect cluster via a declarative application programming interface (API). Application resources associated with the connect cluster are automatically configured based on the specification file.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a fair task offloading and migration method for edge service networks, taking the Pareto optimality of the utility function of all user tasks executed by the edge system as the optimization objective, this approach not only takes into account the constraints of edge network resources, but also ensures the maximization of the utility function of all user tasks in the system, it proposes a new quantitative measurement index for improving the task utility quality under multi-user competition.

Abstract: In some examples, a system includes one or more hardware processors, an interrupt service thread to handle an interrupt, and a kernel scheduler to schedule the interrupt service thread as part of a collection of threads to be scheduled.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide dynamic and fair assignment techniques for allocating resources on a demand basis. Assignment control may be separated into at least two components: a local component and a global component. Each component may have an active dialog with each other; the dialog may include two aspects: 1) a demand for computing resources, and 2) a total allowed number of computing resources. The global component may allocate resources from a pool of resources to different local components, and the local components in turn may assign their allocated resources to local competing requests. The allocation may also be throttled or limited at various levels.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for increasing availability of a micro-computation decision service by utilizing execution flow configurations. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may utilize different decision services that implement rules and/or artificial intelligence models for decision-making of data including data in production computing environment. A decision service may normally be used for data processing and decision-making through an execution flow configuration and/or graph identifying a flow of task executions and other computing operations.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to ensuring a data storage device consumes as little power as possible. Different HW modules in the data storage device can operate at different frequencies to ensure any bottleneck HW modules operate at as fast a frequency as possible, while non-bottleneck HW modules operate at slower frequencies and hence, consume less power. The frequency for each HW modules is dynamic and is adjusted based upon detected bottlenecks so that the data storage device can operate as efficiently as possible and consume as little power as possible.

Abstract: A method includes, by a scheduling controller, receiving from a user a request for an application to be executed by a computing system associated with a data center, wherein the application includes a plurality of tasks, and wherein the request includes an estimated execution time corresponding to an estimated amount of real-world time that the tasks will be actively running on the computing system to fully execute the application. The method includes receiving from the user a service level objective indicating a target percentage of a total amount of real-world time that the tasks will be actively running on the computing system and generating, in response to determining that the job can be completed according to the service level objective and the estimated execution time, a notification indicating acceptance of the job.

Abstract: Disclosed are a task processing method, equipment, storage medium and device. The method includes: acquiring associated conditions of target tasks, and matching the associated conditions with the target tasks to obtain a matching result; establishing a task association table among the target tasks according to the matching result; acquiring an initial execution sequence of the target tasks, and generating a task matrix according to the initial execution sequence and the task association table; in a determination that the task matrix is not in a preset format, adjusting the initial execution sequence until a task matrix obtained according to the task association table and an adjusted execution sequence meets the preset format, and taking the adjusted execution sequence as a target execution sequence; and taking the target execution sequence as a task planning scheme of the target tasks.

Abstract: A storage cluster is provided. The storage cluster includes a plurality of storage nodes coupled together as the storage cluster. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to assign data to two or more logical arrays and the plurality of storage nodes is configured to establish data striping across the plurality of storage nodes for user data of each of the two or more logical arrays.

Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, system, and other techniques for shared, trusted token generation for a token-bucket flow control policy implemented in a distributed ledger. Tokens may be generated by blocks in the distributed ledger, which may be a blockchain system. Trusted execution hardware may be used as a proof algorithm to ensure that a token exists, and that client has legitimately acquired or accumulated the token prior to using it to submit a transaction.

Abstract: Migrating workloads among execution environments including storage systems includes: selecting a target execution environment for supporting a workload and migrating the workload to the target execution environment utilizing active disaster recovery. Migrating the workload can include: assigning storage resources of the workload to a first pod; linking for replication, the first pod to a second pod of the target execution environment; and replicating the storage resources of the workload to the second pod of the target execution environment.

Abstract: A host system can be queried to determine whether new data has been received based on a first time interval. After completion of the first time interval, a determination can be made as to whether the new data has been received and whether a portion of the new data was not stored. In response to the portion of the new data not being stored, the host system can be queried to determine whether subsequent data has been received based on a second time interval where the second time interval is different from first time interval.

Abstract: A system comprises an interface configured to receive an identifier, a processor configured to determine a grouping associated with the identifier, wherein the grouping is determined using a first clustering, wherein the first clustering is based at least in part on a language processing system, determine a sub-grouping of the grouping associated with the identifier, wherein the sub-grouping is determined using a second clustering, determine a final identifier based at least in part on the identifier and the sub-grouping, determine a resource based at least in part on the final identifier, and store the final identifier associated with the resource, and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

Abstract: Example implementations relate to method and system for an action contextual grouping of servers for applying one or more actions to each group. The method includes analyzing data corresponding to a plurality of servers and a management system to generate a dataset including contextual data and server features. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of actions from the management system, and mapping each action to a plurality of criteria to generate an action criteria table. The plurality of criteria includes dynamic contextual criteria derived by the management system based on at least some of contextual data. The method further includes comparing the plurality of criteria for each action in the action criteria table to the contextual data and/or the server features for each server to tag a corresponding server to the action, and grouping the plurality of servers into a plurality of action contextual groups based on the tag.

Abstract: A method may include receiving a version of software widget source code, storing the version of software widget source code, and determining that a version of application source code and a view of software widget source code are used in a deployment environment. The version of application source code may call the version of software widget source code. The method may further include determining that the version of software widget source code corresponds to the view of software widget source code, constructing a build including the version of application source code and the version of software widget source code, and deploying the build in the deployment environment.

Abstract: Techniques for address translation can include: performing first processing that maintains a first storage tier including first metadata pages of a hierarchical structure, and performing second processing that maintains a second storage tier including second metadata pages of the hierarchical structure. The first processing can include storing updated versions of the first metadata pages in place at static physical addresses of the first storage tier. The second processing can include storing updated versions of the second metadata pages at new physical storage locations. Prior to updating the second metadata pages, prior versions of the second metadata pages can be stored at other physical storage locations of the second storage tier, where the other physical storage location are different from the new physical storage locations. The first storage tier can be a non-parity RAID configuration such as RAID-1. The second storage tier can be a parity configuration such as RAID-5.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed using a first networked computer and comprising: receiving a digitally stored workflow pattern that specifies at least an input data source, a data transformation process, and an output data destination, the workflow pattern comprising a structured plurality of name declarations and value specifications that are human readable and machine readable, the data transformation process specified in the workflow pattern including one or more references to processing logic, a processing logic source outside the workflow pattern at which the processing logic is stored, and one or more available process engines that are capable of processing the processing logic; machine parsing the workflow pattern and dividing the workflow pattern into a plurality of execution units, each execution unit being associated with a particular process engine among the one or more available process engines; accessing the input data source specified in the workflow pattern and loading at least a portion

Abstract: Disclosed herein are enhancements for deploying application in an edge system of a communication network. In one implementation, a runtime environment identifies a request from a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accelerator service to be processed by an application. In response to the request, the runtime environment may identify an isolation resource to support the request, initiate execution of code for the application, and pass context to the code. Once initiated, the runtime environment may copy data from the artifact to the isolation resource using the context and return control to the HTTP accelerator service upon executing the code.

Abstract: A neural network system for predicting a polling time and a neural network model processing method using the neural network system are provided. The neural network system includes a first resource to generate a first calculation result obtained by performing at least one calculation operation corresponding to a first calculation processing graph and a task manager to calculate a first polling time taken for the first resource to perform the at least one calculation operation and to poll the first calculation result from the first resource based on the calculated first polling time.

Abstract: A hardware monitor arranged to detect livelock in a hardware design for an integrated circuit. The hardware monitor includes monitor and detection logic configured to detect when a particular state has occurred in an instantiation of the hardware design; and assertion evaluation logic configured to periodically evaluate one or more assertions that assert a formal property related to reoccurrence of the particular state in the instantiation of the hardware design to detect whether the instantiation of the hardware design is in a livelock comprising the predetermined state. The hardware monitor may be used by a formal verification tool to exhaustively verify that the instantiation of the hardware design cannot enter a livelock comprising the predetermined state.

Abstract: One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to managing system operations. For example, in embodiments, an input/output (IO) workload can be received by a storage array. Further, one or more array-related operations can be initiated during one or more low IO load points the system workload places on the storage array.

Abstract: The disclosure describes one or more implementations of a serverless computing management system that utilizes an online learning model to dynamically adjust the number of serverless execution containers in a serverless pool based on incoming data patterns. For example, for each time instance in a given time period, the serverless computing management system utilizes the online learning model to balance computing latency and computing cost to determine how to intelligently resize the serverless pool, such that the online machine-learning models in the serverless pool can update in a manner that improves accuracy and computing efficiency while also minimizing unnecessary delays. Further, the serverless computing management system provides a framework that facilitates state-based training of online machine-learning models in a stateless and serverless cloud-based environment.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises identifying a theme of a process based on a set of communication information. The set of communication information is generated corresponding to performing the process. The method further comprises determining a plurality of roles in the process at least partly based on the set of communication information. The plurality of roles performs respective actions during performing the process. The method further comprises generating a framework of the process based on the theme and the plurality of roles. The framework comprises one or more branches. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.

Abstract: It is provided a method for managing administration privileges of an electronic lock. The method is performed in the electronic lock and comprises the steps of: receiving a first signal from a first mobile device, the first signal comprising a first code entered by a user to the first mobile device, and an identifier of the first mobile device; determining that the first mobile device has administration privileges to the electronic lock; storing the first code in memory of the electronic lock; receiving a second signal from a second mobile device, the second signal comprising a second code entered by a user to the second mobile device, and an identifier of the second mobile device; and granting administration privileges to the lock for the second mobile device only when the second code matches the first code.

Abstract: Systems and methods for building applications by automatically incorporating application performance data into the application build process are disclosed. By capturing build settings and performance data from prior applications being executed on different computing systems such as bare metal and virtualized cloud instances, a performance database may be maintained and used to predict build settings that improve application performance (e.g., on a specific computing system or computing system configuration).

Abstract: A system and method include receiving, by a database engine of a database system associated with a virtual computing system, a user request via a dashboard for provisioning a source database with the database system, receiving, by the database engine via the dashboard, selection of a database engine type, and receiving, by the database engine via the dashboard, selection of a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) and a protection schedule. The system and method also include provisioning, by the database engine, the source database based upon the database engine type, creating, by the database engine, an instance of a database protection system based upon the SLA and the protection schedule, including associating the instance of the database protection system with the source database, and displaying, by the database engine, the source database within the dashboard.

Abstract: A vertically integrated retail system includes an embedded storefront adapted to operate in a distributed manner through independent units embedded in different web sites or content in other host applications. Each unit of the embedded storefront enables a user to purchase goods, services, or other entities without leaving the host application. The units are modules that may be inserted into a web page, application, game, or other electronic media. Units can include product content such as video or animation, images, text, audio, music, or any other type of interactive or non-interactive electronic content. A user may receive virtual currency, virtual goods (such as virtual items or enhancements within a game application), or other rewards for completing transactions using the unit in the host application. Units may be embedded in host content via hyperlinks included in the content or through an application programming interface of a host content provider.

Abstract: Asynchronous completion notification is provided in a data processing system including one or more cores each executing one or more threads. A hardware unit of the data processing system receives and enqueues a request for processing and a source tag indicating at least a thread and core that issued the request. The hardware unit maintains a pointer to a completion area in a memory space. The completion area includes a completion granule for the hardware unit and thread. The hardware unit performs the processing requested by the request and computes an address of the completion granule based on the pointer and the source tag. The hardware unit then provides completion notification for the request by updating the completion granule with a value indicating a completion status.

Abstract: Burst performance of a database query may be determined according to a size of the database query. A query to a database may be received. A size may be determined for the query. If the size is less than a size threshold assigned to a first query engine, then the query may be performed at the first query engine. If the size is greater than or equal to the size threshold assigned to the first query engine, then the query may be performed at a second query engine.

Abstract: The method includes: a primary terminal may select a target secondary terminal from at least one secondary terminal when detecting that the primary terminal currently runs a power consuming process and/or will run a power consuming process, and migrate the currently running power consuming process and/or the to-be-run power consuming process to the target secondary terminal.

Abstract: A data platform for developing and deploying a user application within a unified security context. The data platform authorizes a first user to use an editor to access source code of a user application based on security policies of a security context and authorizes the first user to use an application and data manager to set usage privileges for a second user to use the user application based on the security policies of the security context. To provide the user application to the second user, the data platform deploys the user application by instantiating a User Defined Function (UDF) server and an application engine of the UDF server within the security context, instantiating the user application as an application of the application engine within the security context, and authorizing access by the user application to databased on the security policies of the security context.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for managing digital assistant interaction. A query is received from a user, and a reply to the query is generated for output. An interruption for the user is detected, and subsequently an end of the interruption is detected. In response to detecting the end of the interruption, a predicted query related to the initial query is identified, and a prompt to provide a reply to the predicted query may be generated for output.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling a robot to perform a custom real-time action that uses streaming inputs. One of the methods comprises receiving a definition of a custom real-time streaming control function that defines a custom streaming action, wherein the custom streaming action specifies a goal state for a robot in an operating environment; providing a command to initiate the custom streaming action; and repeatedly providing updated goal states for the custom streaming action, wherein the control layer of the framework is configured to execute the custom streaming action including driving the robot toward a most recent goal state at each tick of a real-time robotics control cycle.

Abstract: A processor having a plurality of protection rings and comprising a protection ring management system in which the attributions of exceptions or privileged resources to protection rings are defined by a programmable table.

Abstract: An example method includes receiving a plurality of data request specifications from a plurality of user endpoint devices of requesting users, aggregating a subset of the plurality of data request specifications which share a similarity into a super request, retrieving a plurality of datasets, wherein the plurality of datasets is needed to fulfill the super request, aggregating the plurality of datasets into a single data superset, and delivering the single data superset to the plurality of user endpoint devices of the requesting users via a data pipeline, where the delivering includes segregating the single data superset so that each user endpoint device of the plurality of user endpoint devices of the requesting users receives a portion of the single data superset corresponding to one data request specification of the plurality of data request specifications that was submitted by the each user endpoint device.

Abstract: A method is proposed for storing at least one piece of data representative of a content available at a content server connected to a constellation of communication satellites. Such method comprises: intercepting (S200) at least one request for the content transmitted by at least one terminal equipment connected to the constellation of communication satellites; determining (S210), based on the at least one request, a context wherein the content is required by the at least one terminal; downloading (S220) the at least one piece of data from the content server at time slots function of the context; and storing (S230) in a data storage device the at downloaded least one piece of data for subsequent delivery to a given terminal.