Patent ID: 6088224
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A cabinet having a plurality of compartments therein, each one of the compartments being configured to have disposed therein a corresponding one of a plurality of processing unit modules, each one of the modules comprising:a case, such case having:(i) a motherboard mounting surface providing an outer panel for the case, such mounting surface having a plurality of posts extending from the mounting surface into an interior region of the case, such posts being arranged to receive a plurality of different physically configured motherboards, each one of the different physically configured motherboards having a different arrangement of a CPU, main memory and I/O adapter cards, each one of the differently configured motherboards having a corresponding different arrangement of holes therein, each one of the different arrangement of holes being receivable by a portion of the arrangements of the posts; and(ii) a bulkhead mounting surface configured to have mounted thereto one of a plurality of different physically configured I/O bulkheads, each one of the different physically configured bulkheads being configured for a corresponding one of the different physically configured motherboards, each one of the I/O bulkheads having a different arrangement of I/O slots, each one of the arrangements of I/O slots corresponding to an arrangements of the I/O adapter cards of a corresponding one of the motherboards.