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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
May. 09, 2008
John K. Langgood, Cary, NC (US);
Thomas F. Lewis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin M. Reinberg, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kevin S. D. Vernon, Durham, NC (US);
John K. Langgood, Cary, NC (US);
Thomas F. Lewis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin M. Reinberg, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kevin S. D. Vernon, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Managing power consumption in a data center including reporting, by a circuit breaker communications device of one of the circuit breakers to the management module, a current power load of the circuit breaker, the report transmitted from the circuit breaker communications device through a power supply communications device of a power supply currently providing power to a particular computing device and through an out-of-band communications link to the management module, upon receiving the report of the current power load, determining, by the management module, whether the current power load of the circuit breaker is greater than a predetermined threshold; and if the current power load of the circuit breaker is greater than the predetermined threshold, reducing, by the management module, power consumption through the circuit breaker of the particular computing device.