Patent ID: 7987352

Claim:
A method of booting up a computer system comprising a first multi-cored processor comprising a first plurality of cores and a second multi-cored processor comprising a second plurality of cores, the method comprising: initializing the first multi-cored processor via a first node bootstrap processor; initializing the second multi-cored processor via a second node bootstrap processor; selecting the first node boot strap processor to operate as a system node boot strap processor; configuring, by the system node boot strap processor, a first partition comprising a first one or more cores from the first plurality of cores and a second one or more cores from the second plurality of cores; configuring, by the system node boot strap processor, a second partition comprising a third one or more cores from the first plurality of cores; and configuring, by the system node boot strap processor, a third partition comprising a fourth one or more cores from the second plurality of cores in the second multi-cored processor.