Methods of achieving cognizant power management

US8429431B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• RARITAN AMERICAS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Naim R. Malik · Somerville, US
• Christian Paetz · Zwickau, DE
• Neil Weinstock · Dover, US
• Allen Yang Yang · Cambridge, US
• Vsevolod Onyshkevych · Princeton, US
• Siva Somasundaram

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 21, 2009
• Grant date: Apr 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 28, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02D10/00
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method of increasing the efficiency of overall power utilization in data centers by integrating a power management approach based on a comprehensive, dynamic model of the data center created with integrated environmental and computational power monitoring to correlate power usage with different configurations of business services utilization, with the techniques of CPU level power management.