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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
May. 16, 2006
Marcus A. Baker, Apex, NC (US);
Justin P. Bandholz, Cary, NC (US);
Patrick M. Bland, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrew S. Heinzmann, Apex, NC (US);
Marcus A. Baker, Apex, NC (US);
Justin P. Bandholz, Cary, NC (US);
Patrick M. Bland, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrew S. Heinzmann, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing independent clock failover for scalable blade servers that include assigning a server blade to one of a plurality of clock failover groups, providing a plurality of independent clock signals to the clock generator of the server blade, wherein one of the plurality of independent clock signals is an active clock signal, detecting a failover condition for the clock failover group assigned to the server blade, and switching the active clock signal, in response to the detected failover condition, from one independent clock signal to another independent clock signal.