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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2006
Paul Douglas Bashor, Cary, NC (US);
Henry Gaines Mcmillan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Challis Llewellyn Purrington, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Leo Scollard, Raleigh, NC (US);
Victor A. Stankevich, Cary, NC (US);
Paul Douglas Bashor, Cary, NC (US);
Henry Gaines McMillan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Challis Llewellyn Purrington, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Leo Scollard, Raleigh, NC (US);
Victor A. Stankevich, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Detecting, predicting, and diagnosing faults in a cooling system. According to one embodiment, a heat sink is in thermal contact with a heat-generating electronic component. When a temperature differential between the electronic component and the heat sink exceeds a set point, a fault signal is generated. The set point may be empirically or theoretically determined. The set point may be a static set point, or it may be a dynamic set point determined according to real-time operational parameters of the system. The system may be implemented with predictive failure analysis (PFA) to provide a more reliable, efficient, inexpensive, and robust computer system.