Patent ID: 8352710
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: determining, in a processor blade, whether a selected processing task is to be off-loaded to a storage blade for processing; off-loading the selected processing task to the storage blade via a planar bus communication path, in response to determining that the selected processing task is to be off-loaded to the storage blade; processing the off-loaded selected processing task in the storage blade; and communicating, by the storage blade, results of the processing of the off-loaded selected processing task to the processor blade, wherein a storage blade processor included in the storage blade has unused processor cycles that are utilized by off-loading the selected processing task from the processor blade to the storage blade, wherein the storage blade stores a plurality of indicators to control communications between the processor blade and the storage blade to perform the off-loading, the processing, and the communicating, wherein a first indicator of the plurality of indicators indicates that the storage blade is idle or below a programmable threshold in processing activity, and wherein a second indicator of the plurality of indicators indicates that there is enough available cache in a memory of the storage blade to run a job.