Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120310605 | NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ANALYTICAL SUPPORT DEVICE, AND ANALYTICAL SUPPORT DEVICE - A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to conduct a processing, the processing has creating a solid figure surrounding an object and a solid figure surrounding a plurality of components of a group of components included in the object, based on design information related to the object, determining elements belonging to the solid figure surrounding the plurality of components from a plurality of elements partitioned and divided from the created solid figure surrounding the object, generating a spatial model that represents a space in which the plurality of components exist, based on the determined elements that belong to the solid figure surrounding the plurality of components, and outputting a result of the generating. | 12-06-2012 |
20130042639 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING AIR CONDITIONING, AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL SYSTEM AND AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL APPARATUS - A method of controlling air conditioning to cool servers, the method includes selecting, when the number of operating servers is a certain threshold number or more, a first mode, in which the pressure of a cold aisle is set higher than the pressure of a hot aisle; selecting, when the number of operating servers is less than the certain threshold number, a second mode, in which the pressure of the cold aisle is set equal to the pressure of the hot aisle; and informing the operating servers of whether a current mode is the first mode or the second mode, and when the current mode is the first mode, driving fans of the servers at a minimum rotational speed in a specification, and when the current mode is the second mode, driving the fans of the servers at a rotational speed higher than the minimum rotational speed in the specification. | 02-21-2013 |
20130081048 | POWER CONTROL APPARATUS, POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A power control apparatus includes a processor that causes thermal fluid analysis of the amount of increase in power consumption for cooling a plurality of servers, where the increase in power consumption is consequent to an increase in the volume of tasks at each server among the servers. Based on analysis results obtained by the thermal fluid analysis, the processor selects from among the servers, a server to execute a task and causes the selected server to execute the task. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083057 | INSTALLING OPERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD - A system stores identification information for identification of a part associated with installation information for designation of a position where the part is installed in a first apparatus; receives the identification information about the part to be read and transmits it by a second apparatus; and retrieves the received identification information from the storage unit, and generates a first composite image by combining installation information corresponding to the retrieved identification information with an image of the first apparatus. | 04-04-2013 |
20130144569 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A computer-readable recording medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a data processing process that includes designating one plane data from a plane data group representing predetermined part data among part data expressed three dimensionally; setting at a position between a plane indicated by the designated plane data and a facing plane that faces the plane and is indicated by plane data other than the designated plane data, a first set plane that faces the plane; setting at a position on an opposite side of the plane from the facing plane, a second set plane that faces the plane; and acquiring projection control information for projecting in a projection direction from any one among the first and second set planes toward the other set plane, a part group located between the first and second set planes and indicated by a part data group among the plural part data. | 06-06-2013 |
20140088940 | THERMOFLUID SIMULATION METHOD AND THERMOFLUID SIMULATION APPARATUS - A thermofluid simulation method includes referring to a storage unit storing a simulation result corresponding to a predetermined analysis range including partial spaces set in a space subject to simulation, and a first reduced order model generated based on the simulation result, generating a second reduced order model derived from the simulation result thus referred to for an analysis range having an arrangement of partial spaces matching an arrangement of the partial spaces of the predetermined analysis range in the space subject to simulation, and storing the generated second reduced order model in the storage unit, and interpolating reduced order models among reduced order models stored in the storage unit based on a boundary condition to form a reduced order model group corresponding to variable ranges of the boundary condition, the reduced order model group including the first, and the second reduced order models. | 03-27-2014 |
20140208322 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND VIRTUAL MACHINE ARRANGING METHOD - A computer system includes plural servers in which virtual machines are arranged; plural power supply apparatuses that supply electric power to the servers; and a control apparatus that controls arrangement of the virtual machines in the servers. The control apparatus solves an integer programming problem whose objective function is total power consumption by the servers and by the power supply apparatuses, the total power consumption being described as a function of the arrangement of the virtual machines; and arranges the virtual machines based on a solution of the integer programming problem. | 07-24-2014 |
20140286372 | SENSOR FAILURE DETECTION DEVICE, AND METHOD - A sensor failure detection device includes a storage, a predictor, a calculator and a detector. The storage stores temperature information of individual sensors. The temperature information includes measured values of temperatures. The measured values of temperatures are measured by a plurality of sensors. The predictor predicts a temperature distribution by performing a thermal fluid simulation, on the basis of the temperature information received from a remaining sensor. The remaining sensor is a sensor of the plurality of sensors other than the test target sensor. The calculator calculates a difference value between a temperature at a position of the test target sensor in the temperature distribution and a temperature measured by the test target sensor. The detector detects that the difference value is higher than a predetermined value. | 09-25-2014 |
20140309961 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING THERMO-FLUID - An information processing apparatus performs a principal component analysis using a plurality of analysis results in an analysis area about thermo-fluid and computes an approximate solution approximate to a final solution by summing analysis patterns obtained by the principal component analysis under a new analysis condition. The information processing apparatus performs a thermo-fluid analysis using the computed approximate solution as an initial state under the new analysis condition. | 10-16-2014 |
20140344812 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND VIRTUAL MACHINE ARRANGING METHOD - A computer system includes servers having virtual machines arranged therein; a noise source in each among the servers, the noise source emitting sound when the server is operated; and a controller that controls arrangement of the virtual machines in the servers. The controller solves an integer programming problem having an objective function representing a noise contribution described as any one among a function of virtual machine arrangement and a function of a job assignment count and indicating an extent of contribution of the sound emitted from the noise source to a noise volume at an evaluation point, by executing software for solving the integer programming problem on a processor, and based on a solution to the integer programming problem, causes the processor to arrange the virtual machines in the servers via an interface for the servers. | 11-20-2014 |