The present disclosure involves a hardware-supported 3D-stacked NVM data compression method and system, involving setting a first identifier to mark a compression state of written-back data, the method at least comprising steps of: dividing the written-back data into a plurality of sub-blocks and acquiring a plurality of first output results through OR operations among the sub-blocks, respectively, or acquiring a plurality of second output results through exclusive OR operations among the sub-blocks, and determining a compression strategy for the written-back data based on the first output results or the second output results; and setting a second identifier to mark a storing means of the written-back data so that the second identifier is in pair with the first identifier, and configuring a storage strategy for the written-back data that includes at least rotating the second identifier.

An imageable material can be used to form a mask element that in turn is useful for providing relief images such as in flexographic printing plates. The imageable material has, in order: (a) a transparent polymeric carrier sheet; (b) a non-ablatable light-to-heat converting having an average dry thickness of 1-5 m and comprising: (i) an infrared radiation absorbing material at 0.1-5 weight %; (ii) a thermally crosslinked organic polymeric binder material; and (iii) non-thermally ablatable particles having an average particle size of 0.1-20 m in an amount of 0.2-10 weight %; and (c) a non-silver halide thermally-ablatable imaging layer (IL) disposed on the LTHC layer, the IL comprising a second infrared radiation absorbing material and a UV-light absorbing material dispersed within one or more thermally-ablatable polymeric binder materials.

An imageable material can be used to form a mask element that in turn is useful for providing relief images such as in flexographic printing plates. The imageable material has, in order: (a) a transparent polymeric carrier sheet; (b) a non-ablatable light-to-heat converting having an average dry thickness of 1-5 m and comprising: (i) an infrared radiation absorbing material at 0.1-5 weight %; (ii) a thermally crosslinked organic polymeric binder material; and (iii) non-thermally ablatable particles having an average particle size of 0.1-20 m in an amount of 0.2-10 weight %; and (c) a non-silver halide thermally-ablatable imaging layer (IL) disposed on the LTHC layer, the IL comprising a second infrared radiation absorbing material and a UV-light absorbing material dispersed within one or more thermally-ablatable polymeric binder materials.

In an example, an apparatus may have a controller to be coupled to a host, an interface component coupled to the controller, and a plurality of memory devices coupled to the interface component. The interface component may be to cause a memory device of the plurality of memory devices to perform an operation in response to a command from the controller.

An imageable material can be used to form a mask element that in turn is useful for providing relief images such as in flexographic printing plates. The imageable material has, in order: (a) a transparent polymeric carrier sheet; (b) a non-ablatable light-to-heat converting having an average dry thickness of 1-5 m and comprising: (i) an infrared radiation absorbing material at 0.1-5 weight %; (ii) a thermally crosslinked organic polymeric binder material; and (iii) non-thermally ablatable particles having an average particle size of 0.1-20 m in an amount of 0.2-10 weight %; and (c) a non-silver halide thermally-ablatable imaging layer (IL) disposed on the LTHC layer, the IL comprising a second infrared radiation absorbing material and a UV-light absorbing material dispersed within one or more thermally-ablatable polymeric binder materials.

An imageable material can be used to form a mask element that in turn is useful for providing relief images such as in flexographic printing plates. The imageable material has, in order: (a) a transparent polymeric carrier sheet; (b) a non-ablatable light-to-heat converting having an average dry thickness of 1-5 m and comprising: (i) an infrared radiation absorbing material at 0.1-5 weight %; (ii) a thermally crosslinked organic polymeric binder material; and (iii) non-thermally ablatable particles having an average particle size of 0.1-20 m in an amount of 0.2-10 weight %; and (c) a non-silver halide thermally-ablatable imaging layer (IL) disposed on the LTHC layer, the IL comprising a second infrared radiation absorbing material and a UV-light absorbing material dispersed within one or more thermally-ablatable polymeric binder materials.

A method of controlling one or more data services in a computing environment includes the following steps. A request to one of read data from and write data to one or more storage devices in a computing environment is obtained from an application executing on a host device in the computing environment. One or more application-aware parameters associated with the data of the request are obtained. Operation of the one or more data services is controlled based on the one or more application-aware parameters.

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory comprise instructions which are executed by the at least one processor and configure the processor to implement a read-ahead manager for adaptive read-ahead in log structured storage. The read-ahead manager determines a probability value P representing a probability to read into cache a temporal environment for a front-end read for a given segment in user space in a log structured storage. Responsive to performing a front-end read of a record of the given segment in the log structured storage, the read-ahead manager performs pre-fetch of the temporal environment for the record with probability P.

Examples of techniques for pre-allocating save areas of memory of a computer processing system are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include initiating, by a host processing device, a control program. The method may further include, responsive to initiating the control program, pre-allocating, by the host processing device, a plurality of save areas for each of a plurality of processors, wherein the plurality of save areas are anchored in a fixed area of the memory for each of the plurality of processors.

One or more processors migrate an amount of cloud data from a non-volatile memory to a volatile cache memory. One or more processors partition the amount of cloud data into a plurality of objects of a size that allow for a satisfactory read/write throughput performance. One or more processors analyze the plurality of objects for input/output performance over a time period. One or more processors migrate a first portion of the plurality of objects back to the non-volatile memory, wherein the first portion of the plurality of objects exhibit a first input/output performance lower than a first threshold value.