Patent ID: 8867214

Claim:
A modular computing system, comprising: two or more electrical modules, comprising: one or more compute modules comprising: a compute module chassis comprising one or more shelf mounting portions configurable to slide the one or more compute modules into at least one slot of a rack; one or more circuit board assemblies coupled to the compute module chassis; and one or more processors coupled to at least one of the circuit board assemblies; one or more data storage modules comprising: a data storage module chassis comprising one or more shelf mounting portions configurable to slide the data storage module into at least one slot of the rack; and one or more data storage devices coupled to the data storage module chassis; and one or more power modules comprising: a power module carrier comprising one or more shelf mounting portions configurable to slide the one or more power modules into at least one slot of the rack; and one or more data storage devices coupled to the power module carrier; and a shelf module configured for installation in a rack, the shelf module comprising two or more partial width slots configurable to slidably receive at least one of the compute modules, at least one of the data storage modules, and at least one of the power modules, wherein at least two of the electrical modules are configured to physically couple with one another to form a module assembly independently of the rack, wherein the shelf module is configurable to receive the module assembly of physically coupled electrical modules in at least one of the slots in the shelf module via the one or more shelf mounting portions of each of the at least two physically coupled electrical modules.