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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2007
William Whitted, Woodside, CA (US);
Montgomery Sykora, Denver, CO (US);
Ken Krieger, Jackson, WY (US);
Benchiao Jai, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Hamburgen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jimmy Clidaras, Los Altos, CA (US);
Donald L. Beaty, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Gerald Aigner, Huobstrasse, CH;
William Whitted, Woodside, CA (US);
Montgomery Sykora, Denver, CO (US);
Ken Krieger, Jackson, WY (US);
Benchiao Jai, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Hamburgen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jimmy Clidaras, Los Altos, CA (US);
Donald L. Beaty, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Gerald Aigner, Huobstrasse, CH;
Exaflop LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and associated method and computer program products involve a highly efficient uninterruptible power distribution architecture to support modular processing units. As an illustrative example, a modular processing unit includes an corresponding uninterruptible power system in which only one AC-to-DC rectification occurs between the utility AC grid and the processing circuit (e.g., microprocessor) loads. In an illustrative data center facility, a power distribution architecture includes a modular array of rack-mountable processing units, each of which has processing circuitry to handle network-related processing tasks. Associated with each modular processing unit is an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to supply operating power to the network processing circuitry. Each UPS includes a battery selectively connectable across a DC bus, and a AC-to-DC rectifier that converts an AC input voltage to a single output voltage on the DC bus. The regulated DC bus voltage may be close to the battery's fully charged voltage.