Managing multiple cartridges that are electrically coupled together

• US 9,203,772 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2013
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Kleyn, Gerald K., Barron, Dwight L., Santeler, Paul Anton
• Primary Examiner(s): AUVE, GLENN ALLEN
• Application Number:
  US13/855,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20140304411A1
• Time in Patent Office: 972 Days
• Field of Search: 710/104, 710300-302
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 multiple cartridges that are electrically coupled together, comprising:

obtaining general purpose command instructions from a chassis with a cartridge where said cartridge comprises a unique application and is connected to said chassis; and

operating said unique application based on said general purpose command instructions.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein operating said unique application based on said command instructions includes operating said unique application regardless of in which position said cartridge is connected to said chassis.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said cartridge comprises unique processing resources to operate said unique application and said unique processing resources are different than other processing resources of another cartridge connected to said chassis to operate another unique application.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said cartridge and said another cartridge share a common resource available on said chassis.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said common resource includes a cooling resource, a storage resource, a chipset resource, a power resource, a management resource, a fabric resource, or combinations thereof.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said cartridge is one of multiple cartridges connected to said chassis where said multiple cartridges is at least a thousand cartridges.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said common resource includes a chipset resource located on said chassis.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said unique application includes one of at least a dedicated hosting application, a modular disk sharing application, a web front end application, a memory caching application, a web accelerator application, a dynamic web application, and a high density dynamic web application.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said cartridge includes just processing resources and memory resources specific to operate said unique application of said cartridge.

10. An apparatus for managing multiple cartridges that are electrically coupled together, comprising:

a chassis with multiple positions to physically connect to individual system on a chip (SoC) cartridges where at least some of said individual SoC cartridges comprise processing resources to operate an individual unique application; and

said chassis comprising a management system in communication with a group of said multiple positions and comprising general purpose command instructions.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said multiple positions are in communication with shared resources to service said individual SoC cartridges.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said shared resources include a cooling resource, a fabric resource, a power resource, a management resource, a chipset resource, or combinations thereof.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said multiple positions include at least a thousand positions.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said chassis provides external cartridge services that support said unique application of individual SoC cartridges that contain just processing resources and memory resources to operate said unique application.

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

a management subsystem to send individualized general purpose command instructions to a group of cartridges connected to a chassis where said cartridges comprise just unique processing resources and unique memory resources customized to operate a unique application, wherein the individualized general purpose command instructions manage the group of cartridges applications; and

an allocation engine to allocate shared resources among said group.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a storage engine to store data of said cartridges based on allocations of said allocation engine.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising a power engine to power said cartridges based on allocations of said allocation engine.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising a cooling engine to cool said cartridges based on allocations of said allocation engine.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein said group of cartridges are selected based on position of said cartridges within said chassis or type of application.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein said management subsystem initiates power saving protocols for said group of said cartridges.