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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1996
Mark John Allen, Potsdam, NY (US);
Richard Ian Kaufman, Somers, NY (US);
Jeffrey Joseph Kleikamp, Saugerties, NY (US);
Lawrence Shungwei Mok, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ismail Cevdet Noyan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Roger Alan Pollak, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Ricky Allen Rand, Somers, NY (US);
Arthur Robert Williams, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a computing system which contains a plurality of subunits. Each subunit contains a computing subcomponent and a subunit supervisor subcomponent. The subunit supervisor component monitors functions of the subunit and output signals corresponding to the monitored functions. The plurality of subunits are contained within a housing. The housing contains a housing supervisor subunit which receives the output signals of each of the plurality of subunits. The supervisor subunit outputs the accumulated signals to an input/output device for monitoring the plurality of subunits and for sending commands to each subunit.