US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 15 for "Fast method for creating multi-node clusters" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,192, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Fast method for creating multi-node clusters" was invented by Jun Chen (Shanghai), Yun Sun (Shanghai), Yufang Chen (Shanghai), Hongbo Geng (Shanghai) and DongYe Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods may include booting a first node of a multi-node cluster from an attached storage medium, e.g., a USB drive, into a bootstrap OS. The bootstrap OS may initiate PXE and file share services on the first node. Disclosed features may copy one or more software bundles for a target OS from the attached storage medium to persist...