Dell Products Inc.

Ramesh Radhakrishnan

Arun Rajan

Aziz Gulbeden

Mukund Purshottam Khatri

Ayedin Nikazm

Elizabeth Raymond

James Pankratz

An information handling system may include at least one central processing unit (CPU); and a plurality of special-purpose processing units. The information handling system may be configured to: receive information regarding cooling characteristics of the plurality of special-purpose processing units; and assign identification (ID) numbers to each of the plurality of special-purpose processing units in an order that is determined based at least in part on the cooling characteristics.

Accelerator scheduling based on cooling characteristics

Binary translation may be performed by a field programmable gate array (FPGA) integrated with a processor as a single integrated circuit. The FPGA contains multiple blocks of logic for performing different binary translations. The processor may offload the binary translation to the FPGA. The FPGA may use historical logging to skip the binary translation of source instructions that have been previously translated into target instructions.

System and method for field programmable gate array-assisted binary translation

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a motherboard, a plurality of information handling resources communicatively coupled to the motherboard, a socket communicatively coupled to the motherboard and configured to receive one of a plurality of different types of interposers, wherein each of the plurality of interposers is configured to provide routing of electrical signals between the socket and a respective system on a chip communicatively coupled to such interposer, and a configuration module. The configuration module may be configured to receive identifying information associated with an interposer, of the plurality of interposers, communicatively coupled to the socket and based on the identifying information, configure the plurality of information handling resources for interoperability with a system on a chip communicatively coupled to the interposer.

Systems and methods for enabling universal circuit board socket

A method of reducing downtime in a node environment is disclosed. The method includes identifying an originating system board of a plurality of system boards that requires service where the originating system board includes a node operating on a processor. The method further includes identifying a target system board of the plurality of system boards where the target system board includes a target processor. The method further includes transferring operation of the node to the target processor before the originating system board is serviced, and operating the node on the target processor.

System and method to reduce service disruption in a shared infrastructure node environment

A method for managing virtual machines in an information handling system (IHS) is disclosed. The method may include receiving a characteristic of a first virtual machine from a connection broker and hosting the first virtual machine on a virtualization server. The method may further include determining availability of more than one virtual machine and if more than one virtual machine is available, hosting a second virtual machine having the characteristic of the first virtual machine.

Virtual machine scheduling methods and systems

A method for providing a desktop environment solution is provided. The method may include providing a client information handling system and authenticating the client to a network. Furthermore, a hardware configuration of the client may be dynamically examined, and an appropriate desktop environment solution may be selected based on the hardware configuration.

Desktop environment solutions methods and systems

A method can include monitoring a proportion of a particular type of information handling system resource used by a particular virtual machine of a plurality of virtual machines. The particular virtual machine can be accessible to a thin client information handling system via a communications broker. The method can include sending first data to the communications broker, the first data indicating the proportion of the particular type of information handling system resource used by the particular virtual machine, and receiving second data from the communications broker. The second data can indicate that a greater or lesser amount of the particular type of information handling system resource is to be allocated to the particular virtual machine. The method can include automatically allocating the greater or lesser amount of the particular type of information handling system resource to the particular virtual machine in response to the second data.

System and method to manage information handling system resources in virtual machine infrastructure

An information handling system is disclosed and can include a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. Further, a file access monitor can be embedded within the memory. The file access monitor can monitor one or more files within the information handling system and dynamically change a file representation associated with each of the one or more files based on access patterns associated with each of the one or more files.

System and method of dynamically changing file representations

An automated system for determining an optimal file system on which to store data files is provided. The system includes a data storage device having multiple virtual partitions operable to receive, store, and retrieve a data file. The system additionally includes a plurality of file systems associated with the virtual partitions. One or more of the different file systems have different data storage performance characteristics. A sub-system tracks file characteristics and user requirements for the data file and uses the file characteristics and the user requirements to automatically determine an optimal file system for the data file. The systems and methods provided may be implemented with an information handling system.

Method and system for optimal file system performance

A snoop filter optimization system includes one or more subsystems to operate a snoop filter, determine information that that affects operation of the snoop filter, and adjust operation of the snoop filter relative to the information that affects operation of the snoop filter.

Snoop filter optimization

A device includes an estimation module, a ratio module, and a recommendation module. The estimation module is adapted to receive a first performance level and a first power consumption level associated with a current server, and adapted to estimate a second performance level and a second power consumption level associated with a first target server based on the first performance level and the first power consumption level. The ratio module is adapted to determine a first performance ratio between the first performance level and the second performance level, and adapted to determine a first power consumption ratio between the first power consumption level and the second power consumption level. The recommendation module is adapted to determine whether to suggest a migration from the current server to the first target server based on the first performance ratio and the first power consumption ratio and adapted to output a first migration determination.

System and method to identify power savings

A system and method for enhanced read performance of a memory storage system is disclosed. The storage system includes a first memory controller. At least one first channel of a plurality of memory modules couples to the first memory controller. At least one memory module in the at least one first channel can return data sought in a read request, if present, to the first memory controller without sending the data through each memory module in the at least one first channel. The storage system also includes a second memory controller coupled to at least one second channel of a plurality of memory modules. At least one memory module in the at least one second channel can return data sought in a read request, if present, to the second memory controller without sending the data through each memory module in the at least one second channel. The at least one second channel contains an inverse mirror copy of data stored on the first channel.

System and method for enhancing read performance of a memory storage system including fully buffered dual in-line memory modules

A default setting, associated with speculative transfers of information from a main memory to a cache memory, is selected for a system based on the number of CPUs and the size of instruction and/or data caches included in the system. A matrix relating the number of processors and the size of the memory caches may be stored in a system BIOS and used to aid in determining whether the speculative transfers should be enabled or disabled by default. In general, speculative transfers will be enabled by default if system performance is more likely than not to be enhanced by using speculative transfers. Speculative transfers will be disabled if system performance is likely to be degraded by use of speculative transfers.

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Ramesh Radhakrishnan