Managing multiple cartridges that are electrically coupled together

• US 10,454,846 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2018
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Kleyn, Gerald K, Barron, Dwight L, Santeler, Paul Anton
• Primary Examiner(s): Auve, Glenn A.
• Application Number:
  US16/116,714
• Publication Number:
  US 20190028405A1
• Time in Patent Office: 419 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/00 Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00 architectures of general purpose stored program computers G06F15/76
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/177 Initialisation or configuration control processor initialisation G06F9/4405
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/803 Application aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Managing multiple cartridges that are electrically coupled together includes obtaining general purpose command instructions from a chassis with a cartridge where the cartridge has a unique application and is connected to the chassis and further operating the unique application based on the general purpose command instructions.

Claims

1. A method for managing a plurality of cartridges that are electrically coupled together, comprising:

obtaining general purpose command instructions from a chassis for a group of the cartridges, wherein the chassis houses the cartridges and wherein the cartridges include a processing resource and memory resources to operate an application;

sending the general purpose command instructions to the group of cartridges; and

providing, through the chassis, access to shared resources among groups of the cartridges.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising electrically coupling the cartridges to communicate with one another.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a cartridge is customized for a specific application.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending general purpose instructions to the chassis to provide the shared resources to the cartridges.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing resource is a system on a chip (SoC).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein access to the shared resources is provided by an allocation engine of the chassis.

7. An apparatus for managing a plurality of cartridges that are electrically coupled together, comprising:

a chassis with positions to physically connect individual cartridges to the chassis, wherein at least some of the individual cartridges include a system on a chip (SoC) to operate an individual unique application; and

the chassis comprising a management system in communication with a group of the positions.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the individual cartridges are servers.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the individual cartridges include different types of memory resources.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the individual cartridges include different types of processing resources.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the management system supports a plurality of individual cartridges without regard to which of the positions the individual cartridges are positioned.

12. A system for managing cartridges that are electrically coupled together, comprising:

management subsystems, wherein each management subsystem sends individualized general purpose command instructions to a different group of the cartridges connected to a chassis, wherein the cartridges include processing resources and memory resources to operate an application and wherein the management subsystems allocate shared resources among different groups of cartridges.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein:

a cartridge includes processing resources and memory resources to operate an application; and

all other resources are built into the chassis.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the different groups of cartridges are based on a type of application associated with the cartridges.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the management subsystems communicate with one another.