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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2008
Junichiro Tsuchiya, Tokyo, JP;
Junichiro Tsuchiya, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims to appropriately cool an operation unit and to suppress power consumption and noise according to the configuration and the operation state in a computer system of an enclosure. A plurality of system cooling fans for cooling the operation unit of the computer system installed in the enclosure and an enclosure management module for controlling the rotation of each system cooling fan are arranged, where the enclosure management module stores in advance the supply cooling amount which is to be supplied to the operation unit by each system cooling fan, acquires information related to a temperature of the operation unit and calculates a necessary cooling amount which is to be required in the operation unit based on the information, and determines the rotation number of each system cooling fan based on the supply cooling amount and the necessary cooling amount.