International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Gregory Brian Pruett

David Benson Rhoades

Simon C Chu

Antonio Abbondanzio

William Joseph Piazza

Fred Allison Bower, Iii

Gregory William Dake

Richard Alan Dayan

Scott Alan Piper

Pravin S Patel

Linda Ann Riedle

Gregory William Kilmer

Carlos Santana

Charles David Bauman

James Peter Ward

Luke David Remis

Ajay Dholakia

Theodore Brian Vojnovich

William W Buchanan, Jr

Gary David Cudak

Mark Edward Molander

William Gavin Holland

Sumeet Kochar

Cale T Rath

James Lee Wooldridge

Ben-Ami Yassour

Ofer Biran

Benjamin Russell Grimes

Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar

Peter Thomas Donovan

David Joseph Doria

Dennis R Goetz

Daryl Carvis Cromer

Scott Edwards Kelso

Vinod Kamath

Richard Edwin Harper

Todd Michael Eischeid

Chulho Kim

Vivek Kashyap

Dhruv Manmohandas Desai

Christopher Landon Wood

Steven Wade Hunter

Michael Joseph Steinmetz

Robert Russell Wolford

Randolph Scot Kolvick

Jeffery J Van Heuklon

Thomas Charles Burke

Keith D Cramer

David Michael Green

James Franklin Macon, Jr

Patrick Leo Caporale

James Steven Worley

Srihari Venkata Angaluri

Paul Brian Tippett

Yariv Aridor

Joaquin F Pacheco

Andrew Hamilton Wray

Stephen Woodrow Murphrey

Michael D Day, Ii

Michael R Primm

Karl Ross Shultz

Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie

William Paul Zeggert

Ileana Vila

Akram Abboud

John Michael Brantly

Peter Gerard Chin

Timothy J Green

Thomas William Lange

Gregg Matthew Margosian

Jianping Yang

Patricia May Genovese

Rodney Wendell Palmer

Barry B Khatri

Makoto Ono

Paul Brian Tippet

Jeffrey Lee Barrett

Christopher C Gaskins

Jefferey J Van Heuklon

Bruce Kenneth Mackenzie

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An edge device, method and computer program product may perform, include or cause performance of various operations. The operations include determining an amount of electrical energy that an edge device is expected to have available from a local renewable energy system during each of a plurality of time periods and determining an amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to use for operations during each of the plurality of time periods. The operations further include identifying a first one of the time periods for which the determined amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to have available from the local renewable energy system is greater than the determined amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to use for operations and causing a cooling system that cools the edge device to perform an overcooling operation during the identified first time period.

Overcooling an edge device that uses electrical energy from a local renewable energy system

A computer program product include non-transitory computer readable storage media having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a processor to receive a continuous query for a user application and receive unfiltered sensor data transmitted over a network from a local compute node that is operatively coupled to a plurality of sensors, wherein the sensor data includes data obtained from the plurality of sensors. The program instructions are further executable by the processor to identify one or more principal components of the sensor data that are responsive to the continuous query, instruct the local compute node to continue transmitting only the sensor data that has been identified as the one or more principal components, and provide the user application with the sensor data that has been identified as the one or more principal components.

Transmitting principal components of sensor data that are responsive to a continuous query

An apparatus for providing a BMC via an M.2 slot includes a presence module that determines whether a baseboard management controller ('BMC') is coupled to an M.2 expansion slot, the M.2 expansion slot configured to also receive a non-BMC device, a bus module that enables communication between a serial peripheral interface ('SPI') bus and the M.2 expansion slot in response to the BMC being present in the M.2 expansion slot, and a signal conversion module that receives management control signals from the BMC via an unused pin-out of the M.2 expansion slot, in response to the BMC being present in the M.2 expansion slot, and transfers the management control signals to the SPI bus.

BMC coupled to an M.2 slot

A mobile computing device of a user transmits a digital certificate to a server computing device over a non-networking connection established with the server computing device. The digital certificate identifies the user, a particular server computing device, a validity period in which the digital certificate is valid, and a list of actions that the user is permitted to perform on the particular server computing device during the validity period. The server computing device authenticates the digital certificate, such as by determining whether a current time is within the validity period and whether the particular server computing device is the server computing device. When authentication is successful, the user can perform any action of the list of actions, including an action to power off the service computing device. The non-networking connection is such that the user is not provided a user account and a password to access the server computing device.

Non-networking connection with server computing device to at least power off the server computing device

Configuring NVMe devices for redundancy and scaling includes: identifying, by a first SSD ('Solid State Drive') driver executing on a first CPU ('Central Processing Unit'), address space of a first SSD coupled to the first CPU by a first PCI (&#x2018;Peripheral Component Interconnect&#x2019;) switch, the first PCI switch including one or more non-transparent bridges (&#x2018;NTBs&#x2019;); partitioning, by the first SSD driver, the address space of the first SSD amongst the NTBs of the first PCI switch and the first CPU, where each NTB is configured to translate CPU memory addresses received from a CPU into a drive address in the address space partitioned to the NTB; and partitioning, by the first SSD driver, a plurality of namespaces of the first SSD amongst the first CPU and the NTBs.

Configuring NVMe devices for redundancy and scaling

A system, according to one embodiment, includes: a wireless communication device operable to establish a wireless connection and transmit server status information over the wireless connection. The system also includes an optical sensor which is operable to detect optical signals from an optical source of a server. The wireless communication device and the optical sensor are coupled together by a physical or wireless connection. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.

Wireless transmission of server status information

In one embodiment, a method includes detecting that a processor is attempting to boot a server using a network boot option over a first network. The method also includes receiving a network address, using the processor, from an integrated management module (IMM) connected to the processor via a local connection without using a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server on the first network. In another embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer readable program medium. The computer readable program medium includes program instructions configured to cause a processor in an IMM to intercept a network boot option initiated by a server over a first network and acquire a network address for the server without using a DHCP in the first network. The IMM is connected to the server via a local connection. Other methods, systems, and computer program products are described according to more embodiments.

Secure network server boot without the use of DHCP and PXE

A workload server computing device receives a workload encryption key from a workload client computing device over a network. The workload encryption key is encrypted with a public encryption key of the workload server computing device. The workload server computing device decrypts the workload encryption key using a private encryption key of the workload server computing device corresponding to the public encryption key. The workload server computing device receives a workload from the workload client computing device over the network. The workload is encrypted with the workload encryption key. The workload server computing device decrypts the workload using the workload encryption key, and executes the decrypted workload for the workload client computing device.

Workload encryption key

A system, according to one embodiment, includes: a wireless communication device, and one or more optical sensors. The wireless communication device and the one or more optical sensors are coupled together by a physical or wireless connection, and the wireless communication device is operable to establish a direct wireless connection and transmit server status information over the direct wireless connection. Furthermore, the one or more optical sensors are operable to detect optical signals from one or more optical sources of one or more servers. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.

At power on of a computing device, a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the computing device executes, a first-stage bootloader program to download a second-stage bootloader program from a first server. The BMC executes the second-stage bootloader program to download third-stage firmware of the BMC from a second server. The BMC executes the third-stage firmware to download firmware of a primary processing subsystem of the computing device from a third server, and to start the primary processing subsystem by causing the primary processing subsystem to execute the firmware of the primary processing subsystem.

Multiple-stage bootloader and firmware for baseboard manager controller and primary processing subsystem of computing device

A method includes running servers to provide computer services to client devices and storing a hardware profile for each of a plurality of server models, wherein each hardware profile identifies hardware components that should be enabled to implement the server model on one of the servers. A request is received from a client device to provide computer services on one or more of the servers using a selected server model and applying the hardware profile for the selected server model to configure the hardware components of the one or more of the servers to use the identified hardware components without manually reconfiguring the one or more of the servers. Still further, the method includes providing computer services to the client device using the one or more of the servers that has been configured using the hardware profile for the selected server model.

Impersonating a specific physical hardware configuration on a standard server

Capturing physical inventory in a data center includes: establishing a proximity-based data communications connection with a service processor of a server, the server installed at a location within a server rack; retrieving an identifier of the server via the proximity-based data communications connection; capturing, with a camera of the mobile computing device, a digital image of the server in the server rack; identifying, from the digital image, the location of the server within the server rack; and storing the identified location of the server within the server rack in association with the retrieved identifier.

Capturing physical inventory in a data center

A method includes identifying a subset of components of a node that should be loaded during the next boot of the node, storing a list of the identified subset of components in a file outside of a basic input output system, and initiating boot of the node. The method further comprises the basic input output system accessing the file and controlling boot of the node to load only the identified subset of components of the node. Another method stores a plurality of such files, wherein each file is associated with maintenance of a target component of the node. After selecting one of the files, the basic input output system may access the selected file and control boot of the node to load only the subset of components that the selected file indicates should be loaded for purposes of a maintaining or testing the target component.

Selective loading of components within a node to speed up maintenance actions

Securing a server before connecting the server to a data communications network in a data center may include: establishing a proximity-based communications connection with a service processor of a server, where the server is not coupled to a data communications network; and transmitting, via the proximity-based data communications connection, a digital certificate to the service processor of the server, where the digital certificate is configured to enable access to the server only by a system management server.

Securing a server before connecting the server to a data communications network

Embodiments include a power-efficient failover method. The method includes operating a primary server at a normal operating state in which program code is executed, and dynamically generating a backup of the results of the executed program code while in the normal operating state. The method further includes operating a redundant server at a reduced power state in which less power is consumed than in the normal operating state of the primary server. The workload of the primary server may be assumed according to the backup in response to a failure of the primary server. The power state of the redundant server is managed, including maintaining the redundant server in the reduced power state prior to detecting a failure of the primary server and increasing the power state of the redundant server and assuming the workload of the primary server in response to the failure of the primary server.

Reduced power failover

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