Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120323400 | OPTIMIZED TEMPERATURE-DRIVEN DEVICE COOLING - An optimized temperature-driven device cooling mechanism factors in power consumption of thermal management components, as well as processing components. A decision engine consults a knowledge base comprising information regarding power consumption and thermal impact of cooling components and processing components. The decision engine can delay additional cooling if the power consumption of cooling components is greater than the increase in power consumption of processing components due to increases in ambient temperature. The knowledge base is populated by published specifications and by empirically derived data that can be based on tests performed on components. Thermal management strategies can be user selected and can include strategies that avoid controlling certain components such as, for example, processing components, instead focusing only on cooling and other components. Cooling includes heat distribution, such as by transferring processing from one processing component to another. | 12-20-2012 |
20130086404 | POWER REGULATION OF POWER GRID VIA DATACENTER - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for regulating an amount of power on a power grid using a datacenter. This allows demand to be more closely brought into alignment with supply. For example, when supply exceeds demand by a predetermined level, the datacenter may increase consumption, causing demand to increase, and when demand exceeds supply and/or comes within a predetermined threshold of supply, the datacenter may decrease consumption, causing demand to decrease. In this way, the datacenter can be utilized as a regulatory tool on the grid. It may be appreciated that given the technology used by and/or operations performed by datacenters, datacenters are uniquely situated to achieve these ends as compared to other (large) energy consumers, such as manufacturing facilities that cannot shift around and/or shut-down operations swiftly. | 04-04-2013 |
20130120931 | ENCLOSING ARRANGEMENT OF RACKS IN A DATACENTER - Enclosing arrangements of racks of computing devices fully encloses a space, either solely by the racks themselves, or in conjunction with structural features, such as walls and doors. The enclosed space can be either a hot aisle, whose hot air is vented out by fans positioned in at least one vertical extremity of the enclosed space, such as the floor, or ceiling, or it can be a cold aisle, whose cold air is pumped in by those fans. To maintain proper pressurization across a vertical cross-section of the enclosed space, specific ones of the computing devices have their fans adjusted based on their vertical position within the racks or have passive airflow adjustments, such as impedance screens. Computing devices can draw or vent air from their sides, taking advantage of the interstitial space between the racks provided by the enclosing arrangement. | 05-16-2013 |
20130282885 | WIRELESS-BASED NETWORK MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of network systems, computing systems, devices, components, modules, routines, and processes are described herein. In one embodiment, a network system includes a computing unit and a management controller configured to control a device operation of the computing unit. The device operation includes at least one of an operation to power up, an operation to power down, an operation to reset, an operation to power cycle, or an operation to refresh the computing unit. The network system also includes a wireless element configured to allow wireless communication between the computing unit and the management controller. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282954 | SOLID-STATE DRIVE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL - Various techniques of solid-state drive (“SSD”) management systems, components, modules, routines, and processes are described in this application. In one embodiment, a management engine for controlling a solid-state drive includes an input interface configured to receive a target operation profile from an input source. The management engine also includes a process component g configured to receive the target operation profile from the input interface, retrieve an operating policy from a database based on the target operation profile, and determine operating parameters for the SSD based on the retrieved operating policy. The management engine further includes a device interface coupled to the process component, the device interface being configured to transmit the determined operating parameters to the SSD for controlling operation of the SSD. | 10-24-2013 |
20130345887 | INFRASTRUCTURE BASED COMPUTER CLUSTER MANAGEMENT - Various techniques of managing a computer cluster are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for managing a computer cluster includes receiving a request for a computing operation, obtaining information of utility for the computer cluster, and determining an execution profile of the computing operation identified by the received request based at least in part on the obtained information. The information includes at least one of a configuration or condition of power, heating, cooling, ventilation that supports the computer cluster. The method also includes executing the computing operation in the computer cluster in accordance with the determined execution profile. | 12-26-2013 |
20140172185 | SETTING-INDEPENDENT CLIMATE REGULATOR CONTROL - Climate regulation within an enclosure (e.g., a server cabinet) may involve a climate regulator device that reports a set of available settings (e.g., fan speeds of a fan array) to a computational unit that selects among the available settings. However, such techniques involve bidirectional communication between the climate regulator device and a computational unit that is capable of utilizing the device-specific settings. Presented herein are climate regulation architectures involving a request from the computational unit as a climate target that is independent of the settings of the climate regulator devices (e.g., an selection on an arbitrary scale from 0 to 100). A climate regulator controller may map the device-independent climate target to a selection among the available settings of the particular climate regulator device(s). Further variations may involve conflict resolution among requests from different computational sub-units, and/or failsafe mechanisms such as default climate regulator device settings to alleviate controller failure. | 06-19-2014 |
20140189706 | RELIABILITY-AWARE APPLICATION SCHEDULING - Reliability-aware scheduling of processing jobs on one or more processing entities is based on reliability scores assigned to processing entities and minimum acceptable reliability scores of processing jobs. The reliability scores of processing entities are based on independently derived statistical reliability models as applied to reliability data already available from modern computing hardware. Reliability scores of processing entities are continually updated based upon real-time reliability data, as well as prior reliability scores, which are weighted in accordance with the statistical reliability models being utilized. Individual processing jobs specify reliability requirements from which the minimum acceptable reliability score is determined. Such jobs are scheduled on processing entities whose reliability score is greater than or equal to the minimum acceptable reliability score for such jobs. Already scheduled jobs can be rescheduled on other processing entities if reliability scores change. Additionally, a hierarchical scheduling approach can be utilized. | 07-03-2014 |
20140379395 | STATE-BASED DECENTRALIZED HARDWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT - State-based decentralized hardware asset management comprises managed assets and a manager, both of which comprise information about the other. If a managed asset is replaced, communications are exchanged between the manager and the replacement asset so that each can obtain identifying information about the other. If the asset manager is replaced, initially, the replacement asset manager can broadcast a request for identifying information to the assets it is managing. Additionally, periodic communications between the assets and the manager request, from each asset, identifying information of the manager. To ensure that each asset recognizes the replacement asset manager, a voting process is utilized. An asset manager also maintains state information for each asset informing subsequent action to be undertaken by the asset manager with respect to each such asset and enabling the asset manager to optimze its operation, including by avoiding actions and communications incompatible with current asset states. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380334 | HARDWARE MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - A simplified hardware management communication protocol comprises defined request packets, which are utilized to transmit requests to lower layers of management functionality or to managed resources, and it also comprises defined response packets, which are utilized to transmit responses back to the source of the request. A request packet comprises an identification of a type of device, an identifier of that device, an address of the sending entity, a session identifier, a sequence number, a function identifier, and a payload that comprises encapsulated communications or data directed to the request target. A response packet can comprise an identification of the sender of the request, a session identifier, a sequence number, a completion code identifying whether and how the request was completed, and a payload. Managed asset type specific drivers translate into communications utilizing communicational protocols that are specific to the managed assets. | 12-25-2014 |