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Power distribution considering cooling nodes

US8457805B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Andreas Bieswanger · Eppelheim, DE
Andrew Geissler · Pflugerville, US
Raymond J. Harrington · Staatsburg, US
Hye-Young McCreary · Austin, US
Freeman Leigh Rawson, III · Austin, US
Malcolm S. Ware · Raleigh, US

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 16, 2010
Grant date	Jun 4, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 17, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F1/20
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method, system, and computer usable program product for power distribution considering cooling nodes in a data processing environment. A power demand of a data processing environment is determined for a period. The data processing environment includes a set of computing nodes and cooling nodes. A determination is made that the power demand will exceed a limit on electrical power available to the data processing environment for the period if the computing nodes and the cooling nodes in the data processing environment are operated in a first configuration. A first amount of power is redistributed from a cooling node in the data processing environment to a computing node in the data processing environment such that a temperature related performance threshold of a subset of computing nodes is at least met.

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