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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2007
David Frederick Champion, Durham, NC (US);
Karl Klaus Dittus, Durham, NC (US);
Brian Gormley, Chaple Hill, NC (US);
Vinod Kamath, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Sven Miller, Raleigh, NC (US);
David Frederick Champion, Durham, NC (US);
Karl Klaus Dittus, Durham, NC (US);
Brian Gormley, Chaple Hill, NC (US);
Vinod Kamath, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Sven Miller, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for receiving and supporting a plurality of devices connected to a network. The system comprises a rack having a front side providing access to a plurality of chassis bays for receiving a chassis and aligning a back end of the chassis for blind docking with an electrical power source. The chassis includes a power supply, a fan, and a front side providing access to a plurality of module bays for receiving a module and aligning a back end of the module for blind docking with the power supply. A compute module is received in a module bay and directly blind docked to the power supply. The system further includes at least one other module received in a module bay within the same chassis as the compute module and directly blind docked with the same power supply along with the compute module. The at least one other module is interchangeably selected from the group consisting of a second compute module and an expansion module, wherein the one or more components of the expansion module are controlled by the motherboard of the compute module within the same chassis.