A cognitive learning device includes inputs with each including an input path having a transistor device having a storage capacity. A circuit is responsive to the inputs and selects an input set in accordance with a current task, wherein the input set selected modifies a characteristic of the transistor device of one or more corresponding input paths to bias the input set for selection for subsequent accesses.

Embodiments are generally directed apparatuses, methods, techniques and so forth to select two or more processing units of the plurality of processing units to process a workload, and configure a circuit switch to link the two or more processing units to process the workload, the two or more processing units each linked to each other via paths of communication and the circuit switch.

A payload store within a database management system includes a first set of nodes that include a first node that includes a memory, a network interface, a storage device, and a processing unit. The processing unit receives, via the network interface, a first portion of data to be stored in a plurality of storage devices of the first set of nodes, and splits the first portion into a first set of data rows that includes a plurality of subsets of data rows and a last subset of data rows. The processing unit further randomly assigns the plurality of subsets of data rows and the last subset of data rows between the first set of nodes and stores a first number of data rows in the storage device. The processing unit further sends, via the network interface, a second number of data rows to the second node for storage therein.

A wireless access point profile is retrieved from a basic input output system (BIOS) non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM). The wireless access point profile is provided to a wireless local area network controller.

Systems and methods are described herein for an efficient storage layout of recorded content associated with a particular user. Content segments, unique to the user and encoded/transcoded at different bit rates, may be stored/partitioned based on the likelihood of a particular bit rate version of content being requested by the user and a duration of playback for the content segment. Content that is more frequently requested may be concatenated in a single storage location on more high performance hardware. Further, content that is played back for a longer duration of playback may also be grouped together and stored on more high performance hardware. Content that is more likely to be played for only a short time may be stored within a plurality of storage containers.

A hybrid data storage device disclosed herein includes a main data store, one or more data storage caches, and a data storage cache management sub-system. The data storage cache may be divided into an over-provisioned portion and an advertised space portion. Clusters of data on the data storage cache corresponding to the over-provisioned portion are marked as pending eviction rather than actually evicted when the data storage cache management sub-system receives a write request, thereby increasing the effective capacity and reducing write amplification of the data storage cache.

A device for processing commands to manage non-volatile memory includes a controller configured to obtain address information from a command, read, based on the address information, an entry of a metadata table, and determine, based on the entry of the metadata table, whether a metadata page corresponding to the address information is being processed by the controller. In response to determining that the metadata page corresponding to the address information is being processed, the controller determines a processing status of the metadata page, among a plurality of processing statuses, based on the entry of the metadata table and processes the command according to the processing status of the first metadata page. In response to determining that the metadata page corresponding to first address information is not being processed, the controller reads the metadata page from the non-volatile memory based on the entry of the metadata table.

An allocation request for requesting allocation of a target virtual area with respect to target data issued to a system program includes a target ID corresponding to the target data. In response to the allocation request, whether or not the target ID is included in data map information is determined. When it is included in the data map information, the system program determines whether or not a target physical area is included in a storage apparatus. When the target physical area is included in the storage apparatus, the system program reserves a free area in a non-volatile memory as a target memory area, copies target data stored in the storage apparatus to the target memory area, changes the target physical area in the data map information to the target memory area, and writes an association between the target virtual area and the target memory area into the volatile memory.

Sleep modes use non-volatile dual inline memory modules (NVDIMMs) to reduce electrical power and execution times. An S3 suspend-to-RAM, for example, may store a system state to NVDIMM via a high-speed memory bus. Likewise, an S4 suspend-to-disk may store a restoration file to the NVDIMM via the high-speed memory bus. When a server or other information handling system is then awakened, execution resumes in less time due to the NVDIMM.

A system includes a read/write module and a caching module. The read/write module is configured to access a first portion of a recording surface of a rotating storage device. Data is stored on the first portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device at a first density. The caching module is configured to cache data on a second portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device at a second density. The second portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device is separate from the first portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device. The second density is less than the first density.