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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDaryl Cromer, Howard Locker, Randall Springfield, Rod Waltermann
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A screen saver is run from the deskside device of a workstation used by a first user, rather than from a blade being used by the first user. Screen saver software and the necessary hardware to run the screen saver are located on the deskside device, thereby making the screen saver independent from the blade. This enables the blade to be reallocated for use by a second user, in a manner that is transparent to the idle first user. When the first user wants to resume use of the computer system, a new blade (or the same blade, if available) is allocated to the first user, and the newly-allocated blade is restored to the status of the first blade at the time it entered its suspended state. From the perspective of the first user, nothing appears different, i.e., to the first user everything looks as though he or she is on the same blade as when they entered the idle state.
A method of managing an idle process in a blade computing system that includes one or more deskside devices, comprising the steps of:
A system for managing an idle process in a blade computing system that includes one or more deskside devices, comprising:
A computer program product for managing an idle process in a blade computing system that includes one or more deskside devices, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer-readable program code comprising:
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