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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2010
Christopher M. Healey, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Xuanhang Zhang, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Christopher M. Healey, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Xuanhang Zhang, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for sequential placement of cooling resources in a data center comprises: defining a weighted, higher-order cooling metric,, representing an overall performance of the cooling resources in the data center; enumerating all possible locations in the data center for placing an additional c cooling resources; and placing the c cooling resources in locations in the data center for whichis closest to an optimum value. For a performance metric M, the weighted, higher-order cooling performance metric can be defined as where R represents a number of racks in the data center, C represents a total number of cooling resources placed in the data center, i represents one of the R racks in the data center, Mrepresents a value of metric Mwhen k cooling resources are shut down, and a(i,k) is a weighting function for rack i with the k cooling resources shut down. A system performing the method and computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions causing a processor to perform the method are also provided.