Patent ID: 7185214
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for managing the operating frequency of blades in a blade-based computer system, said method comprising the steps of: identifying the number of loaded blades in a chassis of said blade-based computer system; determining an optimal performance configuration for each of the individual blades based at least in part on the number of said blades loaded in said chassis and the overall thermal and power envelope for said blade-based computer system; setting an individual frequency for at least one of said individual blades in said blade-based computer system; and allowing for the setting of the individual frequency for at least one of said individual blades to be disabled, wherein the allowing step comprises providing a flag in a GSP Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM), wherein said flag enables and disables setting of the individual frequency for at least one of said individual blades, wherein the allowing step further comprises providing a backup copy of the flag in a PDH register.