Unused resource recognition in real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers

A method comprising:

• receiving notification of an unused configurable computational primitive;
• receiving an instruction to form a computational and networking system according to an enumeration of desired computational and networking system qualities;
• programming configuration state included in the configurable computational primitive according to the enumeration;
• executing an application program in part using resources of the configurable computational primitive
• wherein the configurable computational primitive comprises at least a first portion of a plurality of physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessors, and at least a portion of the configuration state specifies selective hardware isolation of the first portion with respect to a second portion of the physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessors, the selective hardware isolation comprising selectively configuring one or more shared memory coherency and cache memory coherency links between the first and the second portions for isolated operation;
• wherein the notification is provided in real time and comprises a description of qualities of the configurable computational primitive;
• wherein the configurable computational primitive is included in a pluggable module;
• wherein the computational and networking system is a first computational and networking system;
• wherein the notification is responsive to releasing the configurable computational primitive from a second computational and networking system;
• wherein the configurable computational primitive comprises configuration control circuitry;
• and
• wherein the configuration control circuitry is responsive to configuration control state derived from the configuration state.