BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a storage system offering large capacitance, high performance, and high availability through a hierarchical construction of RAID and a method for controlling the storage system; and more pa…

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to the field of data storage devices. Computers often store large quantities of data, including data such as music, video, games, applications, and other valuable information, on hard disk dri…

A multiprocessing system having a plurality of processing nodes interconnected by an interconnect network. To optimize performance during spin-lock operations, a home agent prioritizes the servicing of read-to-own (RTO) transaction requests over the…

BACKGROUND Many processors include a time stamp count (TSC) counter which is typically implemented as a counter that increments at a fixed rate. Some known TSC counters are clocked at a bus clock rate and a multiplier value is added each bus clock cy…

BACKGROUND Memory allocation systems assign blocks of memory on request. A memory allocation system employs an allocator to receive relatively large blocks of memory from an operating system and allocate that memory to satisfy memory requests. Upon r…

BACKGROUND The following disclosure relates to a method and system for enabling a user to browse physical things using a rich user interface (UI) via a web browser in Internet of Things (IoT) such that an end user has rich experience. Internet of Thi…

MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) network system has been watched with keen interest as a technique of speeding up a packet forwarding process (packet switching process) in an IP (Internet Protocol) network such as the Internet. MPLS is the proto…

A processor of a plurality of processors includes a processor core and a message manager. The message manager is in communication with the processor core. The message manager to receive a message from a second processor of the plurality of processors…

An architecture for an extended multiprocessor (XMP) computer system is provided. The XMP computer system includes multiple SMP nodes. Each SMP node includes an XMP interface and a repeater structure coupled to the XMP interface. The SMP nodes are co…

A method and apparatus for preserving memory ordering in a cache coherent link based interconnect in light of partial and non-coherent memory accesses is herein described. In one embodiment, partial memory accesses, such as a partial read, is impleme…

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BACKGROUND Advances in semi-conductor processing and logic design have permitted an increase in the amount of logic that may be present on integrated circuit devices. As a result, computer system configurations have evolved from a single or multiple…

BACKGROUND Many computing systems include a network interface card (NIC) to provide for communications with other systems and devices over a network. In a computing system running multiple operating systems (OSs) on multiple virtual machines, each OS…

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This relates to Input/Output (I/O) performance in a host system having multiple processors, and more particularly, to efficient usage of multiple processors in handling I/O completions by using interrupt affinity schemes t…

BACKGROUND This disclosure relates generally to the field of computer graphics. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, it relates to technique for manipulating sprites in a rendering system for use with a graphics processor unit (GPU). A sp…

A file system layout apportions an underlying physical volume into one or more virtual volumes (vvols) of a storage system. The underlying physical volume is an aggregate comprising one or more groups of disks, such as RAID groups, of the storage sys…

Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide: •Intel ® Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 •Intel ® IT/IR RAID •Intel ® Integrated Server RAID • Intel ® RAID Controllers using the Intel ® RAID Software Stack 3 The software described in this document is designed f…

BACKGROUND A conventional virtual-machine monitor (VMM) typically runs on a computer and presents to other software the abstraction of one or more virtual machines. Each virtual machine may function as a self-contained platform, running its own "gues…

A processor including a virtualization system of the processor with a memory virtualization support system to map a reference to guest-physical memory made by guest software executable on a virtual machine which in turn is executable on a host machin…

A processor including a virtualization system of the processor with a memory virtualization support system to map a reference to guest-physical memory made by guest software executable on a virtual machine which in turn is executable on a host machin…

BACKGROUND Many algorithms on a graphics processing unit (GPU) may benefit from doing a query in a hierarchical tree structure (including quad-trees, oct-trees, kd-trees, R-trees, and so forth). However, these trees can be very deep, whereby traversi…

The present invention relates to the field of security of electronic data and/or communications. In one form, the invention relates to data security and/or privacy in a distributed and/or decentralised network environment. In another form, the invent…

A trusted computer system that offers Linux® compatibility and supports contemporary hardware speeds. It is designed to require no porting of common applications which run on Linux, to be easy to develop for, and to allow the use of a wide variety of…

1 Protection Profile Introduction   This document defines the security functionality expected to be provided by a general-purpose operating system capable of operating in a networked environment. It also provides a set of assurance components that de…

The present invention allocates resources in a multi-operating system computing system, thereby avoiding bottlenecks and other degradations that result from competition for limited resources. In one embodiment, a computer system includes resources an…

The most current version of this document can be obtained in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1375769.1. There is a change log at the end of this document. Note: Sharing the application tier file system is not supported on application tier server…

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for reliable asynchronous solid-state device based de-duplication. Responsive to receiving a write request to write data to the file system, the mechanism sends the write request to the file system,…

An apparatus and method is described herein for providing robust speculative code section abort control mechanisms. Hardware is able to track speculative code region abort events, conditions, and/or scenarios, such as an explicit abort instruction, a…

A method and apparatus for verification of coherence for shared cache components in a system verification environment are provided. With the method and apparatus, stores to the cache are applied to a cache functional simulator in the order that they…

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A SSD apparatus is a large-capacity data storage device using a nonvolatile semiconductor memory such as a NAND flash memory. The SSDapparatus has an interface which is the same as a magnetic recording hard disk drive (HDD…