International Business Machines Corporation

Vapor Io Inc.

Globalfoundries Inc.

Steven Wayne White

John Stephen Muhich

Hung Qui Le

Colton Malone Crawford

Andrew Brian Cencini

Hoichi Cheong

Cole Malone Crawford

Bret Ronald Olszewski

Kurt Alan Feiste

Ben Chavez

Balakrishna Raghavendra Iyer

Brian R Konigsburg

Larry Edward Thatcher

Wolfram Sauer

Piotr M Plachta

Frank Basso

Robert J Blainey

Roch Georges Archambault

Jamshed H Mirza

Dave Kaplin

Paul Joseph Jordan

Raul Esteban Silvera

Yaoqing Gao

Satish Kumar Sadasivam

Basu Vaidyanathan

Shimin Cui

Francis Patrick O'Connell

Madhavi Gopal Valluri

Christopher M Barton

Troy N Hicks

Jack Wayne Kemp

Nick Velander

Balaram Sinharoy

David S Levitan

Robert Brett Tremaine

Lixin Zhang

Adam R Talcott

Randall Ray Heisch

Michael Edward Wazlowski

Pascal Vezolle

Terrence Matthew Potter

John David McCalpin

Chitta L Rao

Mahavi G Valluri

G Jeannette McWilliams

G Jeanette McWilliams

Yaoging Gao

Brian C Hall

Provided is a rack, comprising: a plurality of rack units; and a plurality of lockers each housing a different respective subset of the rack units, wherein respective lockers among the plurality comprise: a first respective barrier disposed between a respective pair of the rack units; a second respective barrier disposed between another respective pair of the rack units; a third respective barrier that is orthogonal to the first barrier and the second barrier, the third respective barrier being moveably or removably coupled to the rack; a respective volume configured to receive one or more computing devices; and a respective lock configured to secure the third respective barrier to the rack in the closed position when in a locked state.

Modular data center

Provided is a rack, comprising: a plurality of rack units; and a plurality of lockers each housing a different respective subset of the rack units, wherein respective lockers among the plurality comprise: a first respective barrier disposed between a respective pair of the rack units; a second respective barrier disposed between another respective pair of the rack units; a third respective barrier that is orthogonal to the first barrier and the second barrier, the third respective barrier being moveably or removeably coupled to the rack; a respective volume configured to receive one or more computing devices; and a respective lock configured to secure the third respective barrier to the rack in the closed position when in a locked state.

Provided is a process of managing rack-mounted computing devices in a data center with a distributed peer-to-peer management system, the process including: determining roles of data-center management computing devices in a distributed peer-to-peer data-center management system; receiving, via an out-of-band network, a data-center management command at a given data-center management computing device; distributing, based on at least some of the roles, via the out-of-band network, the data-center management command.

Data center network device sensing

Provided is a process, including: receiving, with a rack-controller, via a first network, an application program interface (API) request; based on the API request, selecting, with the rack-controller, one of a plurality of routines to effectuate control via the second network of at least some of the plurality of rack-mounted computing devices; executing, with the rack-controller, the selected routine and, as a result, sending one or more commands via the second network encoded in a second protocol different from the first protocol to effectuate an action indicated by the API request.

Data center management with rack-controllers

Provided is an adapter for rack-mounted computing equipment, the adapter including: a chassis; two mounts coupled to the chassis, each of the two mounts having a respective hole shaped to receive and support rack-mountable computing equipment, wherein centers of the holes are between 460 and 470 mm (millimeters) apart from one another in a side-to-side direction of the chassis; two members extending from front of the chassis, the two members being less than 18 mm tall and being between 530 and 550 mm apart in the side-to-side direction; a channel extending at least half a distance along the chassis in a front-to-back direction, the channel defining a volume configured to hold cables extending from a back side of the chassis to a front side of the chassis; and a bus-bar connector mount configured to position a bus-bar connector extending from a back of the chassis.

Adapters for rack-mounted computing equipment

Provided is a device, including: a power supply comprising: a battery configured to output direct current (DC) power at a first voltage and a first current; a battery charger coupled to the battery and configured to charge the battery; a power-converter configured to receive DC power from the battery and convert the DC power to output DC power at a second voltage and a second current, the second voltage being less than half the first voltage and the second current being greater than twice the first current; and an interface to couple output power from the power-converter to a bus-bar power interface of a rack configured to hold computing equipment.

Compact uninterruptable power supply

Selective-access data-center racks

Provided is a patch panel, comprising: a circuit board; and an SFP, SFP+, or QSFP+ connector connected to a plurality of radio frequency coaxial (RF coaxial) connections via conductive traces of the circuit board, the RF coaxial connections configured to extend functionality of the SFP, SFP+, or QSFP+ socket of a computing device coupled to the patch panel from a rear end of the computing device to a front end of the computing device.

Hot-pluggable connection for data communications

Provided is a QSFP+ patch panel, comprising: a circuit board; a plurality of pairs of QSFP+ sockets connected to one another via conductive traces of the circuit board; and one or more microcontrollers coupled to at least two of the conductive traces of each pair of QSFP+ sockets. The one or more microcontrollers comprise memory storing instructions that when executed cause the one or more microcontrollers to perform operations comprising: obtaining configuration settings for the QSFP+ sockets; and configuring connections of the QSFP+ sockets based on the configuration settings.

Patch panel for QSFP+ cable

Provided is a modular datacenter having a moveable rack assembly configured to selectively provide access to rack-mounted computing devices, with access barriers selectively providing access to rack-mounted computing devices within an exposed rack or portion of a rack or device mounted thereon, safety interlocks controlling when the rack assembly moves, and space-efficient thermal management systems.

Provided is an external secondary computing device configured to monitor or control a rack-mounted computing device independently of whether the rack-mounted computing device is operating or is turned off via a low-pin-count motherboard bus independently of a baseboard management controller.

Data center management via out-of-band, low-pin count, external access to local motherboard monitoring and control

Role-based command distribution across networks

Compact uninteruptable power supply

Growing community of inventors

Austin, TX, United States of America

Steven Wayne White