09-05-2013 дата публикации
Номер: US20130117426A1
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A networked computing system is taught that may be operated as one or more provisioned servers, each of the provisioned servers including capabilities as identified by a corresponding set of specifications and attributes, according to various embodiments. Typically the specifications (or constraints) and attributes are specified with a Server Configuration File. The networked computing system may be provisioned into any combination and number of servers according to needed processing and I/O capabilities. Each of these servers may include distinct compute, storage, and networking performance. Provisioned servers may be managed similar to conventional servers, including operations such as boot and shutting down. 1. A method including the steps of:accessing a networked computing system template;automatically instantiating a networked computing system according to the template; and whereinthe template includes a hardware manifest of required hardware primitives, and the hardware manifest includes a description of a required number of partitions ofa plurality of partitionable symmetric multiprocessors.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:the template is an instance of a server specification.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:the networked computing system is an instance of a provisioned server.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:the act of instantiating the networked computing system is an instance of forming a provisioned server.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein:the hardware manifest is an instance of a hardware specification.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:the act of automatically instantiating includes programmatically managing a free primitives pool.7. The method of claim 6 , wherein:the act of automatically instantiating further includes programmatically allocating resources from the free primitives pool according to the template.8. The method of claim 1 , wherein:the partitions are physical partitions and the partitionable symmetric multiprocessors are physically ...
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