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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2002
Thomas G. Phillips, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kartik N. Raghavan, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul C. Sutton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ryan W. J. Waite, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas G. Phillips, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kartik N. Raghavan, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul C. Sutton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ryan W. J. Waite, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for purposing a computing device is disclosed. The computing devices in a network are organized into groups referred to as Pods, each Pod of computing devices further comprising an aggregation node. The aggregation node monitors and controls the computing devices in the Pod. The aggregation node is used to copy a system image from the pristine partition of another computer device or from a library of system images to a target partition of the computer to be repurposed. Because the computing devices in the network are organized into Pods, with each Pod having an aggregation node, there is no single point of failure for the entire management and control of the network. The aggregation nodes for each Pod in the network can communicate with one another to most efficiently allocate resources among the various tasks to be performed by the computing resources in the network. Computing devices in the network can be repurposed and/or reassigned to different Pods based on the various criteria.