Patent ID: 8612548

Claim:
A computer server system comprising: a computer server of a plurality of computer servers, each computer server comprising a server processing system, the server processing system comprising a local subsystem access module situated on a processing board of the each computer server, the local subsystem access module configured to provide a virtual control function for a single instantiation of a physical hardware resource of the computer server system, the physical hardware resource being shared between the computer server and at least one additional computer server in the plurality of computer servers, wherein the local subsystem access module is communicatively coupled to a first data bus and a second data bus, the first data bus and second data bus being of different formats, the local subsystem access module comprising at least: a sequencer engine, a serializer/deserializer, and a set of register files, the local subsystem access module configured to perform a method comprising simulating a physical hardware resource controller during a boot sequence of the each computer server over the first data bus; receiving a set of physical hardware resource controller data in a first data bus format over the first data bus; converting the first data bus format to a second data bus format; and transmitting the set of physical hardware resource controller data in the second data bus format over the second data bus to a receptor device communicatively coupled to the local subsystem access module of each computer server via a multiplexer, the receptor device configured to perform a method comprising converting the physical hardware resource controller data to one of the first data bus format and a third data bus format.