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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2004
Ken Gary Pomaranski, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew Harvey Barr, Roseville, CA (US);
Kenneth N. Konesky, North Highlands, CA (US);
Ken Gary Pomaranski, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew Harvey Barr, Roseville, CA (US);
Kenneth N. Konesky, North Highlands, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
One embodiment disclosed relates to a high-availability cluster apparatus having a plurality of computing nodes and a hardware interface configured to connect to each of said nodes. The internode connections are coupled to the hardware interface to communicate node status signals between said nodes. A node is removable from being connected to the hardware interface without interrupting a topological continuity of the internode connections. Other embodiments are also disclosed.