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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2003
Jason R. Almeida, Raleigh, NC (US);
Scott N. Dunham, Raleigh, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Durham, NC (US);
William B. Schwartz, Apex, NC (US);
Adam L. Soderlund, Bahama, NC (US);
Edward Zorek, Cary, NC (US);
Jason R. Almeida, Raleigh, NC (US);
Scott N. Dunham, Raleigh, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Durham, NC (US);
William B. Schwartz, Apex, NC (US);
Adam L. Soderlund, Bahama, NC (US);
Edward Zorek, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and program product supporting dynamic configuring of a multi-node computer. The system includes a scalability management module directly coupled to each node in the multi-node computer. The scalability management module sets and maintains configuration parameters for the multi-node computer, wherein if one of the nodes is removed from the multi-node computer, a hot-spare node can be dynamically configured to replace the removed node without having to reconfiguring or physically reconnect the remaining nodes