Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Darin Lee Frink

Peter George Ross

Christopher Strickland Beall

David Edward Bryan

Jason Alexander Harland

Felipe Enrique Ortega Gutierrez

Michael David Marr

Nafea Bshara

Frank Charles Paterra

Munif M Farhan

Kevin M Bailey

Samuel James McKelvie

Ligong Wang

Matthew David Klein

Douglas Stewart Laurence

Christopher Nathan Watson

Max Jesse Wishman

Roey Rivnay

Ziv Harel

Anthony Nicholas Liguori

Paul David Franklin

James Caleb Kirschner

Phyllis Ng

Mary Crys Calansingin

James Robert Hamilton

Matthew Shawn Wilson

Bryan James Donlan

Peter Zachary Bowen

Eric Northup

David Aaron Skirmont

Charles D Phillips

Manish Singh Rathaur

Priscilla Lam

Anurag Windlass Gupta

Yan Valerie Leshinsky

Ian Paul Nowland

Matthew T Corddry

Adam Douglas Morley

Michael Jon Moen

Richard Arvel Stevens

William Mische

Mike MacGregor

Masataka Kubo

Chao Chen

Munif F Farhan

Bianca Nagy

Brent Kenneth Clore

Adi Habusha

Robert Charles Swanson

Osvaldo Patricio Morales

Christopher James BeSerra

Luke Thomas Gregory

Kypros Constantinides

Ryan F Conroy

Hani Ayoub

Brandyn David Giroux

Michael Schrempp

Rick Chun Kit Cheung

Priti Choudhary

Noah Thomas Kelly

Ali Elashri

Ahmed Mohammed Shihab

Robert Klein

Shreyas Sampath

Kenny Kiet Huynh

Shay Madar

Yotam Admon

Shuwei Teng

Ravi Akundi Murty

David Ben-Dror

Robert Hastings

Yangtzu Lee Andrew Lee

Mastaka Kubo

Felix An

Scott Song

Ryan Monaghan

Charles Caldwell Phares

Samuel James Mckelvie

Ian P Nowland

A rack-mountable computer system enables an airflow that cools components in an upstream portion of the computer system interior to be cooled through mixing with a bypass airflow downstream of the components in the upstream portion. The mixed airflow can cool components in a downstream portion of the interior. The bypass airflow is directed by a bypass plenum that is unencompassed by the separate plenum that directs the airflow to cool the upstream portion components. The bypass plenum can be at least partially established by an external surface the computer system and one or more external structures, including an external surface of an adjacently mounted computer system. Relative flow rates through the separate plenums can be adjusted, via flow control elements, to separately control heat removal from components upstream and downstream of the air mixing, based at least in part upon air temperatures in the separate interior portions.

Computer system with external bypass air plenum

A portable data center is configured to be transported with installed computing devices between a first location and a second location. A tethered networking device of the portable data center can be deployed to provide a consistent interface for connecting computing devices at a first location with computing devices of the portable data center. Large quantities of data stored in the computing devices at the first location can be transferred to computing devices of the portable data center and the portable data center storing the transferred data can be transported to a second location where the stored data is transferred from the portable data center to one or more computing devices at the second location.

Portable data center for data transfer

A server computer can have multiple potential configurations depending on a state of an input signal. Interconnect buses between processors in a server computer can be reconfigured on startup or dynamically ('hot add/drop') by one or more multiplexers, thereby allowing the server computer to be flexibly partitioned into custom arrangements of processors, to maximize or change interconnect bandwidth between connected processors in a partition, or to minimize or reduce impact (“blast radius”) due to failed processors or interconnect buses. Each processor can have its own configuration logic to allow partitioning of the server computer as small as a single socket. In an alternative configuration, a common configuration logic can be partitioned and act as separate configuration logics for each partition.

Reconfigurable interconnect with multiplexer for flexible processor partitioning in a server computer

A computing system includes a rack having standard slots for computing devices and computing devices coupled to the rack. One or more of the computing devices includes a chassis, a circuit board assembly in a primarily horizontal orientation, and one or more processors coupled to the circuit board assembly. One or more stacks of hard disk drives are coupled to the chassis. The chassis has a width that is equal to or less than half of the width of one of the standard slots of the rack.

Partial-width rack-mounted computing devices

An interposer card and a virtualization offloading card are provided for installation in a third-party server to integrate the third-party server into a cloud service provider network. The interposer card includes a baseboard management controller that interfaces with a management console of the cloud service provider network. This allows the third-party server to be converted into a server controlled by the cloud service provider network. Additionally, the baseboard management controller of the interposer card acts as a firewall between the third-party server and a management control network of the cloud service provider network. The interposer card and the virtualization offloading card are installed in a chassis of the third-party server via an expansion slot without requiring modification of the hardware or firmware of the third-party server.

Hardware for integration of servers into a management network

A system for storing data includes a rack, one or more data storage modules coupled to the rack, and one or more data control modules coupled to the rack. The data storage modules may include a chassis, two or more backplanes coupled to the chassis, and one or more mass storage devices (for example, hard disk drives) coupled to the backplanes. The data control modules may access the mass storage devices in the data storage modules.

Modular mass storage system

A commonly designed processor heat exchanger decouples the mounting hardware used to mount the heat exchanger to a processor from the heat exchanger itself. This allows a single heat exchanger design to be mounted to various different types of processors using processor customized mounting brackets that engage with flanges extending out from a body of the heat exchanger.

Processor heat exchanger with separate mounting structure

Methods for providing power to electronic components (e.g., servers in a datacenter, or other devices) can include providing AC power received from an external source to the devices. During periods of high demand, when costs of external AC power exceed a threshold, or when availability of external AC power is decreased, distributed backup power supply systems can be utilized to temporarily offset or to reverse consumption of external AC power. Such distributed backup power systems can be periodically recharged during periods of low power demand, and thus consistently retain adequate charge for backup use in the event of power loss.

Battery mitigated datacenter power usage

A computer system includes symmetrical sets of motherboard serial channels which couple processor devices on a motherboard with a common serial link interface. The common serial link interface can be coupled with an endpoint device to establish symmetrical serial links between the endpoint device and the processor devices. The computer system can include a riser card which can be coupled with the serial link interface. The riser card can include an endpoint device interface and serial channels which can couple the processor devices with the endpoint device via symmetrical limited selections of the motherboard serial channels. The riser can include additional interfaces which can couple the processor devices with additional expansion devices.

Symmetrical multi-processor serial links

A branded fleet server system includes a pre-assembled third-party computer system integrated into a chassis of the branded fleet server system. The pre-assembled third-party computer system is configured to execute proprietary software that is only licensed for use on branded hardware. A virtualization offloading component is included in the server chassis of the branded fleet server along with the pre-assembled third-party computer system. The virtualization offloading component acts as a bridge between the pre-assembled third-party computer system and a virtualized computing service. As such, the virtualization offloading component manages communications, security, metadata, etc. to allow the pre-assembled computer system to function as one of a fleet of virtualization hosts of the virtualized computing service.

Offload card based virtualization of a pre-assembled computer system integrated into a server for a virtualization service

Technologies are provided for dynamically changing a size of a cache region of a storage device. A storage device controller writes data to the cache region of the storage device using a particular storage format. The storage device controller then migrates the cached data to a storage region of the device, where the data is written using a different storage format. A dynamic cache manager monitors input and output activity for the storage device and dynamically adjusts a size of the cache region to adapt to changes in the input and/or output activity. The dynamic cache manager can also adjust a size of the storage region. The storage device controller can automatically detect that the storage device has dynamic cache support and configure the storage device by creating the cache region and the storage region on the device.

Dynamic cache management in hard drives

A rack-mountable server system includes air moving systems, such as fans, to induce airflow inside a server chassis to remove heat generated by components of the server system. The air moving systems are configured to direct air from a cold aisle, through the chassis of the server system, and out to a hot aisle as exhausted air. The server system is configured to be mounted in racks that provide cooling air on either a front or rear side of the rack. Thus, the server system is able to be mounted in a rack in a reversible Input/Output (IO) orientation and can accommodate multiple airflow directions through the server chassis to conform to a hot aisle and cold aisle configuration used for a given rack at a given facility at which the server system is mounted.

Reversible server system

A rack-mountable computer system directs separate portions of a cooling airflow from an inlet air plenum in the computer system interior through separate air passages to remove heat from separate portions of a set of heat-producing components. The air passages can preclude a portion of cooling airflow removing heat from a component from being preheated by another component. Plenums and air passages can be established through the arrangement of components in the interior. Components can be arranged in progressive offsets throughout the depth of the interior to vary plenum flow area throughout the depth, which can progressively impede and redirect airflow through the inlet plenum into the air passages. Arrangements can include an angled row, a staggered configuration, etc. The computer system can include a chassis which can translate, while maintaining operation of hot-pluggable electronic components coupled throughout the depth, to enable swapping of hot-pluggable electronic components throughout the interior.

Computer system with side plenum cooling

A system for storing data includes a discrete cooling module that can enable discrete cooling of mass storage devices installed in the chassis interior of a data storage module coupled to a rack. The discrete cooling module includes an air moving device and an air cover. The air moving device can induce and airflow through the chassis interior of the data storage module to remove heat from heat producing components of mass storage devices installed in the chassis interior. The air cover directs the airflow through the chassis interior. The discrete cooling module can isolate rotational vibrations generated by the air moving device from the mass storage devices installed in the chassis. Partial isolation can include indirectly coupling the discrete cooling module to the chassis via directly coupling with the rack.

Discrete cooling module

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Darin Lee Frink