Patent ID: 7873693

Claim:
A method comprising: communicating multi-backplane control instructions from a multi-backplane control agent to a portal multi-backplane platform process; broadcasting the multi-backplane control instructions from the portal multi-backplane platform process to a plurality of peer multi-backplane platform processes executing in a respective plurality of backplane systems; wherein at least one of the backplane systems comprises 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, and the multi-backplane control instructions comprise at least one instruction directed to the first partition; and wherein the broadcasting is at least in part via at least one link enabled to co-mingle server-management-related-traffic and non-server-management-related-traffic.