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Pat White

Manoj R Sastry

Lee G Rosenbaum

Brad Davis

Richard A Lary

Thomas E Malone

Henry J DiVincenzo

Patrick D Mason

Service processors within a system are self-clustered. The system can also include an operating system or other software code, a management console, or both. The operating system communicates with the cluster of service processors, where the service processors are self-clustered or otherwise, such as through a memory shared by at least all the service processors. The operating system therefore need not be aware which of the service processors performs a given function. The console communicates with the cluster of service processors, where the service processors are self-clustered or otherwise, through any service processor of the cluster. The console therefore also need not be aware that the service processors have been clustered to perform functionality for the console.

Aggregating service processors as a cluster

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