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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2009
Jan M. Janick, Cary, NC (US);
Randhir S. Malik, Cary, NC (US);
Gregory J. Mcknight, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jan M. Janick, Cary, NC (US);
Randhir S. Malik, Cary, NC (US);
Gregory J. McKnight, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that provide power redundancy to a computer system without increasing the number of independent power supplies used. A system having N computing modules may have power redundancy using N power supplies, where each of the N power supplies are able to supply more power than required by an associated computing module, and where all but one (N−1) of the power supplies collectively can immediately supply power to any one of the computing modules when the power supply associated with that computing module fails.