METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN EXTENSIBLE COMPUTING SYSTEM

A Virtual Server Farm (VSF) is created out of a wide scale computing fabric ("Computing Grid") which is physically constructed once and then logically divided up into VSFs for various organizations on demand. Allocation and control of the elements in the VSF is performed by a control plane...

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Main Authors PATTERSON, MARTIN, AZIZ, ASHAR, GRAY, MARK, MARKSON, TOM
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 21.08.2013
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A Virtual Server Farm (VSF) is created out of a wide scale computing fabric ("Computing Grid") which is physically constructed once and then logically divided up into VSFs for various organizations on demand. Allocation and control of the elements in the VSF is performed by a control plane connected to all computing, networking, and storage elements in the computing grid through special control ports. The control plane is comprised of a control mechanism hierarchy that includes one or more master control process mechanisms communicatively coupled to one or more slave control process mechanisms. The one or more master control process mechanisms instruct the slave control process mechanisms to establish VSFs by selecting subsets of processing and storage resources.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20010950298