Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090021908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system for cooling an electronic device having a heat-generating component includes a passive cooling device having a cooling ability designed to expire after a predetermined amount of heat is absorbed from the heat-generating component and an active cooling device configured to at least one of dissipate heat generated by the heat-generating component and cool the passive cooling device, when the active cooling device is activated. The system also includes a controller configured to activate the active cooling device after a determination that a predetermined threshold condition has occurred, wherein the predetermined threshold condition is selected to occur after the passive cooling device cooling ability has substantially expired, to thereby substantially minimize power consumption of the active cooling device in cooling the heat-generating component. | 01-22-2009 |
20090041466 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM HAVING FREE SPACE OPTICAL ELEMENTS - An electronic system includes a first circuit board having a first optical element and a second circuit board having a second optical element positioned to electronically communicate with the first optical element over free space. The system also includes a cold plate having openings positioned to enable the optical communications over free space is positioned between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The system further includes a condenser and a fluid conduit containing a cooling fluid configured to absorb heat through the cold plate and to convey the heat to the condenser, where the fluid conduit connects the cold plate and the condenser. | 02-12-2009 |
20090132097 | VIRTUAL COOLING INFRASTRUCTURE - A virtual cooling infrastructure includes a demand manager having logical descriptions of a plurality of heat loads and the demand manager is configured to determine cooling load demands of the heat loads. The infrastructure also includes a capacity manager having logical descriptions of a plurality of cooling system components configured to supply cooling resources to cool the heat loads. The infrastructure further includes a service operator configured to map the cooling resources of the cooling system components to the cooling load demands of the heat loads. | 05-21-2009 |
20090138112 | Designing An Apparatus To Substantially Minimize Exergy Destruction - In a method of designing an apparatus formed of at least one component to substantially minimize exergy destruction, at least one of one or more candidate materials and one or more candidate processes are identified. The one or more candidate materials are capable of being used in forming the at least one component and the one or more candidate processes are associated with either or both of the one or more candidate materials and the at least one component. Exergy destruction values of at least one of the one or more candidate materials and the one or more candidate processes are determined. In addition, at least one of the one or more candidate materials and the one or more candidate processes having the substantially lowest exergy destruction values are selected for the apparatus design. | 05-28-2009 |
20090138305 | MANAGEMENT OF A SERVICE PERFORMING STRUCTURE - In a method of managing a structure configured to perform a service a net power value for implementing the structure is determined. A structure available energy value is calculated from the net power value and a fuel available energy value is calculated from the structure available energy value. The fuel available energy value is a function of the structure available energy value and an environmental sustainability of the structure. In addition, the structure is managed based upon the calculated fuel available energy value. | 05-28-2009 |
20090138888 | Generating Governing Metrics For Resource Provisioning - In a method of generating governing metrics, a high-level goal to be met in a provisioned system is identified. In addition, a low-level governing policy designed to facilitate achievement of the high-level goal is selected and properties relating to the selected low-level governing policy are identified. The identified properties are formulated to define governing metrics relevant to the selected low-level governing policy and the formulated governing metrics are outputted. The formulated governing metrics are configured to be used in at least one of evaluating and controlling resource provisioning in the provisioned system. | 05-28-2009 |
20090159866 | Integrated Circuits With Phase Change Devices - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems with integrated circuits having phase change devices. One embodiment includes an integrated circuit die and a phase change die having a phase change material that changes phases when a temperature at the integrated circuit die exceeds a threshold for a predetermined amount of time. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161243 | Monitoring Disk Drives To Predict Failure - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for monitoring disk drives to predict failure. One embodiment includes a disk drive having a plurality of different types of sensors that sense events over a lifetime of the disk drive. Data from the events is aggregated to predict when the disk drive will fail. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164811 | Methods For Analyzing Environmental Data In An Infrastructure - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for analyzing data in an infrastructure. One embodiment includes a method that senses environmental data at equipment racks in an infrastructure, identifies patterns in the environmental data, and uses the patterns to modify the infrastructure to improve thermal management in the infrastructure. | 06-25-2009 |
20090327012 | COOLING RESOURCE CAPACITY ALLOCATION USING LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS - In a method of determining cooling resource capacity allocations for resource units in a shared environment for optimized operations, cost parameters associated with operating the resource units in at least one of delivering and receiving cooling resources are identified, one or more constraints associated with operating the resource units are identified, in which at least one of the one or more constraints comprises meeting at least a total cooling demand of components in the shared environment, a cost function that correlates the plurality of identified cost parameters is developed, a minimized cost function is solved for through application of a Lagrange multiplier subject to the identified one or more constraints, and cooling resource capacity allocations for the resource units that result in optimized operations in the shared environment based upon the minimized cost function solution are determined. | 12-31-2009 |
20100277863 | DATA CENTERS - According to one embodiment, a data center comprises a first data center section comprising one or more equipment element elements. Each computer element has one or more heat generating sources. A second data center section comprises a heat exchanger, the second data center section being substantially segregated from the first section. A heat transfer element is thermally coupled to at least some of the heat generating sources and is further thermally coupled to the heat exchanger. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277864 | COOLING - According to one embodiment, an equipment enclosure includes a plurality of equipment elements, each element having one or more heat generating sources. A heat exchanger is mounted towards the top of the equipment enclosure. The heat exchanger is thermally coupled to at least some of the heat generating sources. The enclosure includes an exhaust vent through which air heated by the heat exchanger may be evacuated, and an inlet vent through which air from outside the equipment enclosure may be drawn into the equipment enclosure to cool the heat exchanger by stack effect ventilation. | 11-04-2010 |
20100325206 | PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - To provide collaborative business intelligence in an enterprise, an analytics platform is provided to receive an event associated with the enterprise and to perform analysis in response to the event. A virtual collaboration platform is provided to enable plural users to interact with each other and to use resources of the analytics platform. | 12-23-2010 |
20110029152 | Management System Operable Under Multiple Metric Levels - A system for managing a structure having cooling fluid configured to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure includes a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms configured to absorb heat from the cooling fluid. At least two of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms have at least one different level of a metric with respect to each other. The system also includes a controller configured to implement the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms in a staged manner to remove heat from the cooling fluid. The staged manner includes implementing the cooling mechanism having a relatively lower at least one metric level first and implementing a cooling mechanism having a relatively higher at least one metric level last, to cool the structure. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029153 | Cooling Provisioning Management In A Three Dimensional Package - In a method for managing cooling provisioning in a three-dimensional package containing a plurality of stacked die with a cooling system having at least one active cooling mechanism, at least one of workload on and an environmental condition at or around one of the plurality of stacked die is identified. In addition, at least one of the active cooling mechanism and the one of the plurality of stacked die is controlled based upon at least one of the identified workload and environmental condition. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029154 | Management Of A 3D Package And Cooling System - In a method for managing at least one three-dimensional package and a cooling system having at least one active cooling mechanism configured to cool the at least one three-dimensional package, at least one of workload on and an environmental condition on or around the at least one three-dimensional package is identified. In addition, at least one of an active cooling mechanism and a three-dimensional package is controlled based upon at least one of the identified workload and environmental condition. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035243 | TECHNOLOGY REPLACEMENT COST ESTIMATION USING ENVIRONMENTAL COST CONSIDERATIONS - In a method of estimating a replacement cost associated with an existing technology performed by a processor, one or more costs associated with implementing the existing technology are obtained, in which the one or more costs include an environmental cost and a utility cost associated with implementing the existing technology. In addition, an existing net benefit of continuing implementation of the existing technology based upon the obtained one or more costs are calculated. | 02-10-2011 |
20110099043 | Infrastructure System Management Based Upon Evaluated Reliability - In a method of managing a structure having an infrastructure system, a plurality of candidate components configured to provide redundancy to the infrastructure system are identified. Reliability levels of the structure are evaluated with a plurality of different combinations of candidate components. In addition, the structure is managed based upon the evaluated reliability levels. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106501 | AUTOMATED DESIGN OF AN IT INFRASTRUCTURE - A method for automated design of an IT infrastructure, includes a) identifying IT equipment to support services to be provided to meet one or more user requirements; b) identifying one or more auxiliary infrastructures to meet requirements of the identified computer equipment; c) synthesizing the IT equipment and the one or more auxiliary infrastructures to generate a candidate design; d) analyzing one or more operating characteristics of the candidate design; e) repeating steps a)-d) on at least one additional candidate design that differs from the candidate design generated at step c); and f) storing at least one of the candidate design and the at least one additional candidate design. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112694 | Cooling Medium Distribution Over A Network Of Passages - A system for managing distribution of a cooling medium includes a sensor configured to detect a condition, a first agent configured to receive the detected condition and to determine whether a characteristic of the cooling medium controlled via a first actuator is to be manipulated based upon the detected condition. The system also includes a second agent configured to receive at least one of the detected condition and the flow manipulation determination of the first actuator and to determine whether a characteristic of the cooling medium controlled by a second actuator is to be manipulated based upon the at least one of the detected condition and the characteristic manipulation determination of the first actuator. | 05-12-2011 |
20110127024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system for cooling an electronic device having a heat-generating component includes a passive cooling device having a cooling ability designed to expire after a predetermined amount of heat is absorbed from the heat-generating component and an active cooling device configured to at least one of dissipate heat generated by the heat-generating component and cool the passive cooling device, when the active cooling device is activated. The system also includes a controller configured to activate the active cooling device after a determination that a predetermined threshold condition has occurred, wherein the predetermined threshold condition is selected to occur after the passive cooling device cooling ability has substantially expired, to thereby substantially minimize power consumption of the active cooling device in cooling the heat-generating component. | 06-02-2011 |
20110175498 | Data Center - A data center includes a mobile enclosure having an interior space. The interior space includes a first section and a second section, where the first section is separated from the second section by a first divider. The first section houses a rack having a first side and a second side, where the rack is positioned to separate the first section into a first aisle and a second aisle such that fluid flow between the first aisle and the second aisle is substantially prevented other than through the rack. The first aisle includes a fluid delivery device and the second aisle includes a fluid removal device, where the second section facilitates fluid communication between the fluid removal device and the fluid delivery device. | 07-21-2011 |
20110202655 | Data Center Manager - A computer-implemented data center manager includes an evaluation engine configured to receive information pertaining to an operating policy, a system manager configured to collect information pertaining to system devices and to communicate the collected system device information to the evaluation engine, and a facility manager configured to collect information pertaining to facility devices and to communicate the collected facility device information to the evaluation engine. The evaluation engine is configured to determine target policies for coordinated operations of the system devices and the facility devices to satisfy the operating policy. | 08-18-2011 |
20110264433 | MAPPED THERMAL ELECTRIC COOLING - Methods and apparatus are provided for use with thermal electric cooling devices (TECDs). An apparatus is mapped so as to identify the heat dissipating entities and zones thereof. A first cooling plan is devised in accordance with the mapping, the cooling plan being dependant upon TECDs. At least one other cooling plan is devised that is distinct from the first cooling plan. The coefficient of performance (COP) for each of the cooling plans is calculated. One of the cooling plans is selected and implemented in accordance with a comparison of the COPs. Precision, zone-oriented cooling is provided, avoiding excessive material scale and wasted energy. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270464 | DISTRIBUTION OF COOLING RESOURCES USING HIERARCHICALLY IDENTIFIED COOLING MICROGRIDS - In a method for distributing cooling resources to a plurality of locations using a plurality of hierarchically identified cooling microgrids, conditions detected at the plurality of locations are received. Each level of the hierarchically identified cooling microgrids is a plurality of resource actuators configured to vary distribution of the cooling resources. Settings for the plurality of resource actuators in each of the levels in the cooling microgrid hierarchy that substantially maintain conditions at the plurality of locations within predetermined ranges are determined using a processor, while substantially optimizing at least one measure of performance associated with supplying the cooling resources to the plurality of locations. | 11-03-2011 |
20110295443 | MANAGING AN INFRASTRUCTURE HAVING A 3D PACKAGE AND COOLING RESOURCE ACTUATORS - An apparatus for managing an infrastructure having one or more three-dimensional (3D) packages and a plurality of cooling resource actuators, each of the 3D packages including a plurality of heat sources, includes a heat source manager configured to determine heat load profiles of the heat sources. The apparatus also includes a cooling resource manager configured to determine capabilities of the plurality of cooling resource actuators to meet heat load demands of the plurality of heat sources based on the heat load profiles of the plurality of heat sources and an integrated thermal manager configured to match the capabilities of the plurality of cooling resource actuators to the heat load profiles of the plurality of heat sources. | 12-01-2011 |
20110307110 | MANAGEMENT OF A VIRTUAL POWER INFRASTRUCTURE - A virtual power infrastructure for managing distribution of power to a plurality of power demanding units from a plurality of power generators includes a demand manager having logical descriptions of the power demanding units, in which the demand manager is configured to determine power load demands of the power demanding units using the logical descriptions of the power demanding units, and a capacity manager having logical descriptions of the power generators. The capacity manager is configured to determine allocation of power capacity supplied to the power generators from one or more of the power generators to meet the power load demands of the power demanding units, while satisfying one or more predetermined constraints associated with at least one of the power demanding units and the power generators. | 12-15-2011 |
20120006038 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - According to one example of the present invention, a cooling system is provided. The cooling system comprises a water-cooled air conditioning module for cooling air from a chamber. The chamber is arranged for receiving air to be cooled and hot humid air. The cooling system also comprises a control system for controlling the flow of hot humid air to the chamber such that the air input to the air conditioning module has a predetermined relative humidity level within a predetermined range. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020150 | Integrated Circuits With Phase Change Devices - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems with integrated circuits having phase change devices. One embodiment includes an integrated circuit die and a phase change die having a phase change material that changes phases when a temperature at the integrated circuit die exceeds a threshold for a predetermined amount of time. | 01-26-2012 |
20120109391 | MANAGING ENERGY DEMAND IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE - In a method for managing energy demand in an infrastructure, a coefficient of performance (COP) of the infrastructure as a function of time is determined. The COP is a measure of efficiency of the infrastructure. In addition, an energy demand on the infrastructure as a function of time is determined and an energy demand schedule for the infrastructure that temporally reallocates the energy demand based upon the determined COP of the infrastructure is determined. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109704 | MANAGING UTILIZATION OF BIOGAS IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE - A system for managing utilization of biogas in an infrastructure includes a plurality of biogas implementing apparatuses. The system also includes a biogas source to supply biogas to the plurality of biogas implementing apparatuses and an optimizer to determine a distribution of the biogas to the plurality of biogas implementing apparatuses that substantially optimizes at least one metric associated with operating the infrastructure. | 05-03-2012 |
20120226922 | CAPPING DATA CENTER POWER CONSUMPTION - Example systems, methods and articles of manufacture to cap data center power consumption are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes a group power capper to allocate a fraction of power for a data center to a portion of the data center, a domain power capper to allocate hosted applications to a server of the portion of the data center to comply with the allocated portion of the power, and a local power capper to control a first state of the server and a second state of a cooling actuator associated with the portion of the data center to comply with the allocated portion of the power. | 09-06-2012 |
20120278272 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISAGGREGATING POWER LOAD - Systems and methods of disaggregating power load are provided. An example of a method is carried out by program code stored on non-transient computer-readable medium and executed by a processor. The method includes receiving time series data representing total energy consumption. The method also includes identifying distinguishing features in the time series data. The method also includes identifying energy consumption constituents of the total energy consumption based on the features. | 11-01-2012 |
20120297385 | INTERACTIVE SERVICE MANAGEMENT - In one implementation, an interactive service management system includes a performance profile module and a performance evaluation module. The performance profile modules defines a performance measure of an interactive service based on a quality assessment associated with the interactive service. The performance evaluation module compares the performance measure with performance target associated with the interactive service, and modifies the performance target associated with the interactive service based on the comparison of the performance measure and the performance target. | 11-22-2012 |
20130024141 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS USING NODE SIMILARITY - Systems and methods of analyzing energy consumption using node similarity are disclosed. An example of a method may be carried out by program code stored on non-transient computer-readable medium and executed by a processor. The method includes assigning a similarity score to a plurality of nodes using at least one of: domain based rules, attribute based similarity metrics, and machine learning. The method also includes identifying a similar node from the plurality of nodes, for a node under consideration, based on the similarity score. The method also includes determining energy consumption of the node under consideration based on energy consumption of the similar node. | 01-24-2013 |
20130027220 | DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM AND METHODS - In an embodiment, a device characterization system includes a sensor to sense an attribute of a device, a processor, and an algorithm executable on the processor to collect time series data of the attribute from the sensor, detect edges in the data, identify clusters from the edges, label the clusters based on input from a supervisor, and estimate device characterization parameters from the clusters. | 01-31-2013 |
20130195312 | PLACING TEMPORALLY ALIGNED AND VARIABLY SIZED PIXELS IN DISCRETE RINGS IN A GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION - Data points contain data values in respective time intervals. Pixels representing data points for time periods (each time period including multiple time intervals) are placed in corresponding discrete rings in a graphical visualization, wherein the pixels are user accessible to allow viewing of information of the corresponding data points. The pixels are temporally aligned in the corresponding discrete rings, and the pixels in the corresponding discrete rings are variably sized depending on a number of data points in the respective time periods. | 08-01-2013 |
20130278623 | PROVIDING A CORRELATION RING FOR INDICATING CORRELATION BETWEEN ATTRIBUTES - Pixels representing attributes of data records are into discrete rings of a graphical visualization, where the discrete rings correspond to respective ones of the attributes, and where the pixels are arranged in each of the discrete rings according to time intervals of the data records. A correlation ring is provided in the graphical visualization in addition to the discrete rings, where the correlation ring has visual indicators for indicating degrees of correlation between at least two of the attributes. | 10-24-2013 |
20130289904 | Detecting Anomalies In Power Consumption Of Electrical Systems - A method for detecting power consumption anomalies. The method obtains two different time power series and compares them to generate a dissimilarity matrix. A dimensionality reduction equation is applied to the dissimilarity matrix to obtain a low dimensional embedding of the power data. A probability score of each of the time series being anomalous is then calculated. | 10-31-2013 |
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20130345993 | Determining Sensor Placement in Distributed Networks - Determining sensor placement in distributed networks includes identifying measurement locations in a distributed network with a tree topology and selecting a subset of the measurement locations for sensor placement with a mutual information function. | 12-26-2013 |
20140040081 | DETERMINING AN ESTIMATED QUANTITY OF A CONSTITUENT COMPONENT - An identification of a constituent component is received. In response to receiving the identification, an estimated quantity of the constituent component in a product mix is determined, where the determining is based on bills of materials for corresponding product assemblies, and a data structure that stores information containing at least one metric for each of a plurality of components, the at least one metric indicating an impact of the corresponding component on an environment. | 02-06-2014 |
20140055457 | PIXEL-BASED GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION INCLUDING A PEAK DETECTION RING - A method executed by a system having a processor includes arranging pixels representing attributes into a plurality of rings. Each ring contains pixels representing a time series of attribute values for a respective one of the attributes. The method further includes providing a peak detection ring. The peak detection ring includes visual indicators for indicating a location of at least one peak in an attribute in the plurality of rings. | 02-27-2014 |