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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1999
William J. Rooney, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Harry M. Yudenfriend, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Jeffrey P. Kubala, Poughquag, NY (US);
Eugene P. Hefferon, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Carol B. Hernandez, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An exemplary embodiment is a method for creating and identifying different kinds of groups of cooperating system images within a single machine, a single central processor complex (CPC) where each kind of group has a different functional purpose. Such a collection of cooperating system images is referred to as a logical partition cluster (LPC). An LPC is created or identified using a diagnose instruction. The diagnose instruction includes a subcode field designating a function to be performed and a logical partition cluster type field indicating the type of logical partition cluster said function is to be performed on.