Patent ID: 8006103
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A partitionable multi-processor computer system comprising: a cell architecture comprising at least a first computing cell and a second computing cell, each computing cell comprising: at least one processor; a cell controller in communication with an I/O subsystem; at least one programmable trusted platform management device coupled to the at least one processor via a hardware path which goes through at least one trusted platform management device controller in the partitionable multi-processor computer system; and a persistent memory module to store trusted platform state data for a corresponding operating system partition extracted from the at least one programmable trusted platform management device, wherein the at least one trusted platform management device controller and the persistent memory module are configured to transfer said state data from the at least one programmable trusted platform management device to another programmable trusted platform management device; and a routing device to couple the first and second computing cells.