1. A computer system comprising: an integrated circuit (IC) comprising: a common bus; a hub portion coupled to the common bus, the hub portion including an input/output controller configured to communicate with a plurality of periphery devices; and a plurality of IC units, each IC unit being in communication with the common bus and two or more of the IC units being coupled in series, each IC unit is configurable to operate as at least one of a master node, a slave node, and a portion of a memory controller including dedicated memory and an embedded application kernel to pre-fetch data from a storage array, wherein the memory controller utilizes two or more of the IC units in the plurality of IC units coupled in series for staging prefetching operations; wherein each IC unit in the plurality of IC units is capable of at least one of hosting an operating system different from another operating system being hosted by another of the IC units, and, hosting an operating system being used by at least another of the IC units, each IC unit having a dedicated physical resource for the operating system hosting, each IC unit is capable of communicating with the hub portion using the common bus, and, each IC unit is capable of communicating with each of the other IC units included in the plurality of IC units.