A method for identifying, in a system including two or more computing devices that are able to communicate with each other, with each computing device having with a cache and connected to a corresponding memory, a computing device accessing one of the memories, includes monitoring memory access to any of the memories; monitoring cache coherency commands between computing devices; and identifying the computing device accessing one of the memories by using information related to the memory access and cache coherency commands.

A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor may specify a fixed read-only data stream defined by plural nested loops. An address generator produces address of data elements for the nested loops. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. A stream template register independently specifies a linear address or a circular address mode for each of the nested loops.

An apparatus includes a processor component of a first node device caused to receive data block encryption data and an indication of size of an encrypted data block distributed to the first node device for decryption, and in response to the data set being of encrypted data: receive an indication of the quantity of sub-blocks within the encrypted data block, and a hashed identifier for each data sub-block; use the data block encryption data to decrypt the encrypted data block to regenerate data set portions from the data sub-blocks; analyze the hashed identifier of each data sub-block to determine whether all data set portions are distributed to the first node device for processing; and in response to a determination that at least one data set portion is to be distributed to a second node device for processing, transmit the at least one data set portion to the second node device.

A digital data processor includes an instruction memory storing instructions specifying a data processing operation and a data operand field, an instruction decoder coupled to the instruction memory for recalling instructions from the instruction memory and determining the operation and the data operand, and an operational unit coupled to a data register file and to an instruction decoder to perform a data processing operation upon an operand corresponding to an instruction decoded by the instruction decoder and storing results of the data processing operation. The operational unit is configured to perform a table write in response to a look up table initialization instruction by duplicating at least one data element from a source data register to create duplicated data elements, and writing the duplicated data elements to a specified location in a specified number of at least one table and a corresponding location in at least one other table.

Preventing applications from overconsuming shared storage resources, including: identifying one or more sub-regions of data stored on a storage device that are associated with an application of a known application type; compiling information describing the application's utilization of a storage system; determining that a storage system objective has not been met; and initiating, based on the information describing the application's utilization of the storage system, remediation actions.

Disclosed is a storage system comprising: receiving a first data segment and first metadata associated with the first data segment to be stored in the storage system; storing the first data segment and the first metadata in a persistent storage device of the storage system; compressing the first data segment using a predetermined compression algorithm to generate a first compressed data segment; and storing the first metadata and the first compressed data segment in a solid state drive (SSD) cache device of the storage system, including aligning the first metadata and the first compressed data segment to a page boundary of the SSD device to reduce a number of input and output (IO) operations required for accessing the first metadata and the first compressed data segment from the SSD cache device.

A memory system includes: a first memory module including first volatile memories; a second memory module including second volatile memories, non-volatile memories and a module controller; a memory controller controlling the first and second memory modules through second and third control buses, respectively; and a switch array electrically coupling the second and third control buses, wherein the module controller controls the switch array to electrically couple the second and third control buses in a backup operation for backing up data of the first volatile memories to the non-volatile memories, wherein the first and second memory modules include one or more first memory stacks and one or more second memory stacks, respectively, wherein the first volatile memories are stacked in the first memory stacks, and wherein the second volatile memories, the non-volatile memories and the module controller are stacked in the second memory stacks.

A cache read method of a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of page buffer units and cache latches, each page buffer units having a sensing latch and a sensing node line is provided. The method comprises performing a first on-chip valley search (OVS) read on a selected memory cell using a first sensing node line and a first sensing latch of a first page buffer unit of the plurality of page buffer units; storing first data sensed from the selected memory cell in the first sensing latch, the first data based on a result of the first OVS read; dumping the first data to sensing node lines of at least one page buffer unit, excluding the first page buffer unit, from among the plurality of page buffer units; and performing a second OVS read on the selected memory cell using the first sensing latch.

The various embodiments disclose an electronic device including: a storage including a non-volatile memory having a buffer space and a storage space, a storage device controller, and a storage interface, and a processor. According to various embodiments, the processor may be configured to perform control to determine whether the storage supports a high speed data storage mode using a buffer space of a non-volatile memory of the storage, activate a function of writing data buffered in the buffer space of the non-volatile memory into a storage space of the non-volatile memory based on the storage interface operating in a first state based on the storage supporting the high speed data storage mode, and transition the storage interface of the storage to the first state based on no request to the storage being generated during a predetermined time period based on the storage interface operating in a second state.

A method for transferring packets of a communication protocol via a memory-based interface between two processing units. The method includes providing, in each of the processing units, a send area including a read index section, a write index section, and a send buffer, and a receive area including a read index section, a write index section and a receive buffer. Each processing unit repeats as sending steps: reading a read index from the receive area; writing at least one send packet into the send buffer (from a starting write address to an ending write address, the ending write address maximally corresponding to a buffer address assigned to the read read index, and writing a changed write index into the send area.