Invention Grant
US09124654B2 Forming a federated system with nodes having greatest number of compatible firmware version
有权
形成具有最多数量的兼容固件版本的节点的联合系统
- Patent Title: Forming a federated system with nodes having greatest number of compatible firmware version
- Patent Title (中): 形成具有最多数量的兼容固件版本的节点的联合系统
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Application No.: US13713016Application Date: 2012-12-13
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Publication No.: US09124654B2Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Fred A. Bower , Shunrong Hu , William G. Pagan
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore
- Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore
- Agent Katherine S. Brown; Jeffrey L. Streets
- Main IPC: G06F9/44
- IPC: G06F9/44 ; H04L29/08
Abstract:
A method initializes a federated computer system from a fabric of nodes connected by a federated interface. Each node casts a vote to the federated interface for a candidate firmware version supported by the node casting the vote. The candidate firmware version having received the greatest number of votes is identified, and the computer system is initialized as a federated system of the nodes that support the firmware version identified as having received the greatest number of votes. A process of iterative voting may be used to identify a greater number of nodes supporting a compatible firmware version.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140075173A1 AUTOMATED FIRMWARE VOTING TO ENABLE A MULTI-ENCLOSURE FEDERATED SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2014-03-13
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