Patent ID: 8296092

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising a processor, a non-transitory computer readable medium, a plurality of test procedures encoded in said computer readable medium, a test algorithm encoded in said computer readable medium, a network interface, and having computer readable program code disposed therein to create and use a platform specific test method for computing hardware, the computer readable program code comprising a series of computer readable program steps to effect: placing a storage server comprising a first processor module comprising a plurality of first processors in communication with a first plurality of random access memory (RAM) storage assemblies, a second processor module comprising a plurality of second processors in communication with a second plurality of RAM storage assemblies, and a data storage module comprising one or more data storage devices; determining a physical configuration for said storage server, wherein said physical configuration comprises a plurality of physical objects including processors, memory devices, and storage devices; and designing a test algorithm to test the physical objects comprising said physical configuration.