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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2002
Richard Edwin Rosenthal, Carmel, CA (US);
Troy Alexander Shahoumian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Julie Ann Ward, Redwood City, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard Edwin Rosenthal, Carmel, CA (US);
Troy Alexander Shahoumian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Julie Ann Ward, Redwood City, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment of the invention, a method of designing the racking configuration for boxes in racks and for determining which connections go between different racks, including: solving a rack select optimization sub-problem to determine racks to use; and solving a rack assign optimization sub-problem to determine which particular rack will hold a particular box. In another embodiment, an apparatus for designing the racking configuration for boxes in racks and for determining which connections go between different racks, including: a machine-readable representation for a racking configuration problem; and a solver that can read that machine-readable representation and that is configured to: solve a rack select optimization sub-problem to determine at least one rack to use; and solve a rack assign optimization sub-problem to determine which particular rack will hold at least one box.