US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 14 for "Using cache loss signal as a basis to optimize hit rate and utilization through cache partitioning" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,532, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Using cache loss signal as a basis to optimize hit rate and utilization through cache partitioning" was invented by John Creed (Innishannon, Ireland) and Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage node includes a plurality of compute nodes that allocate portions of local memory to a shared cache. The shared cache is configured with mirrored and non-mirrored segments. The mirrored and non-mirrored segments are separately configured with pools of data slots. Within each segment, each pool is associated with same-size data slots...