AMD Confidential
User Manual
September 12
th
, 2008
Chapter 3: Graphical User Interface
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A device group can optionally specify initial and default archive data (device state) for
each of its child devices. A device group with five children could specify archive data for
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or all 5 children. We could have an “
AMD 4-core CPU xxxx
” that specifies
archive data for all five of its children (configured with the (theoretical) product ID file
“
amd-xxxx.id
”).
This is not the only way we could create a (theoretical) “
AMD 4-core CPU xxxx
”. A
cleaner idea would be to reuse the non-configured abstract and generic “
4 core Node
”.
This device group would (externally) be functionally the same as our previous “
AMD 4-
core CPU xxxx
” example, although it has the additional layer where it cleanly reuses “
4
core Node
”. We could also reuse “
4 core Node
” for other device groups that represent a
particular hardware implementation of a 4-core node, such as the (theoretical) “
AMD 4-
core CPU yyyy
” configured with the (theoretical) product ID file “
amd-yyyy.id
”. Or a
Configured with product
ID file amd-xxxx.id
Configured with product
ID file
amd-xxxx.id