Method and apparatus for re-utilizing partially failed resources as network resources

A parallel computer system comprising:

• a plurality of compute nodes having a compute logic block comprising:
• a) a network logic block having communication blocks;
• b) a plurality of clock partitions in the compute node;
• c) a clock control circuit with unique clock enables for the clock partitions;
• d) a network/device bus arbiter that disables access to the communication blocks by the compute logic block when there is an error detected in the compute logic block;
• and
• wherein the clock control circuit enables clocks to clock partitions for one or more communication blocks and disables clocks to the compute logic block when there is an partial failure detected in the compute logic block to allow the computer system to continue to operate with the failed compute logic block.