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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2007
Daniel H. Bax, Portland, OR (US);
William Jackson Bibb, Jr., Gaston, OR (US);
Russell M. Clapp, Portland, OR (US);
Tom Gourley, Banks, OR (US);
Geoffrey H. Hanson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allen Hirashiki, San Ramon, CA (US);
Thomas Dean Lovett, Portland, OR (US);
Sharad Mehrotra, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shyam Mittur, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel H. Bax, Portland, OR (US);
William Jackson Bibb, Jr., Gaston, OR (US);
Russell M. Clapp, Portland, OR (US);
Tom Gourley, Banks, OR (US);
Geoffrey H. Hanson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allen Hirashiki, San Ramon, CA (US);
Thomas Dean Lovett, Portland, OR (US);
Sharad Mehrotra, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shyam Mittur, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A Cost-Reduced Enterprise Server (CRES) system includes a flexible resource-efficient server having a plurality of Processor Memory Boards (PMBs) coupled to an Input/Output Module (IOM). The IOM provides all networking and storage interfaces for the server. The IOM is implemented as a field-replaceable pluggable module, and thus all Input/Output (I/O) capabilities or resources of a CRES system may be upgraded via replacement of the IOM. Each PMB is dividable into a pair of Symmetric MultiProcessor (SMP) complexes, and each complex is coupled to a respective portion of the I/O resources provided by the IOM. Each portion of the IOM provides a pair of I/O daughter-module connectors compatible with standard I/O interfaces, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)-X and PCI-Express. One or more CRES systems may be coupled to one or more Enterprise Server (ES) systems to form a multi-chassis server managed collectively as one or more provisioned servers.