| 摘要 |
A multi-computer instant capacity on demand (iCOD) system enables a customer to purchase computers with some assets inactive at a reduced price and to pool the total assets across all of the computers on the customers computer network. Each computer in the network transmits usage reports to a vendor database where the total number of inactive assets are added up by class of assets to determine if the customer has paid for all activated assets for all the computers on the network, rather than by individual computer. The customers may further organize computers into clusters, where the assets are audited by cluster rather than by individual computer or by the entire network. The network can have more than one cluster.
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