ON-DEMAND PERSONAL COMPUTER PROVISIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A computing resource controller for on-demand personal co mputer provisioning is disclosed, comprising: a machine maintainer for according to a user's requirements for a computing hardware device, allocating a computing hardware device which can satisfy the user's requirements from a computing pool comprising a plurality of computing hardware devices that can be booted remotely; a software maintainer for preparing a software environment in a storage pool according to the user's requirements for a software environment, wherein the machine maintainer is further configured to set the booting address for the allocated computing hardware device to the prepared software environment, and to boot the computing hardware device with the software environment; and a user input/output handler for switching the input and output of the booted computing hardware device to a client device having remote desktop functions, thus forming the user's personal computer. Preferably, the computing hardware device is a blade PC. An on-demand personal computer provisioning system co mprising the controller and a corresponding method are also disclosed.