Patent ID: 8601053

Claim:
A method including the steps of: communicating multi-chassis control instructions from a multi-chassis control agent to a portal multi-chassis platform process; distributing the multi-chassis control instructions from the portal multi-chassis platform process to a plurality of peer multi-chassis platform processes executing in a respective plurality of chassis; coalescing multi-chassis control data from the peer multi-chassis platform processes to the portal multi-chassis platform process; communicating the multi-chassis control data from the portal multi-chassis platform process to the multi-chassis control agent; wherein the multi-chassis control agent determines at least a portion of the multi-chassis control instructions based in part on at least a portion of the multi-chassis control data; and wherein at least one of the chassis includes at least a first partition of a plurality of partitionable symmetric multiprocessors, the first partition being formed at least in part by programmatically configuring links between processors of the physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessor to selectively isolate subsets of the processors with respect to respective shared memory coherency and cache coherency transactions on a link-by-link basis, the multi-chassis control instructions include at least one instruction directed to the first partition, and the multi-chassis control data includes data from the first partition.