Patent ID: 7082521

Claim:
A method comprising: creating a computing environment from a plurality of processing resources by allocating a plurality of the processing resources by displaying a list of the plurality of the processing resources on a display device, wherein the display device is coupled to a processor, the processor is configured to effect the allocating, and each of the plurality of the processing resources comprises at least one of a hardware processor and a software program; accepting signals from a user input device, wherein the signals indicate the configuration of a selected processing resource of the processing resources, and the user input device is coupled to the processor; configuring the selected processing resource; accepting signals from the user input device to indicate first and second processing resources for configuration, wherein the first and second processing resources are hardware processors, the first processing resource is of a first type of hardware processor, the second processing resource is of a second type of hardware processor, the user input device is coupled to the processor; and automatically coupling a first processor to a second processor via a digital network.