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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2012
Malcolm Scott Allen-ware, Austin, TX (US);
Timothy Glen Hallett, Oronoco, MN (US);
Wei Huang, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Robert Lefurgy, Austin, TX (US);
Glenn Rueban Miles, Austin, TX (US);
Guillermo Jesus Silva, Austin, TX (US);
Malcolm Scott Allen-Ware, Austin, TX (US);
Timothy Glen Hallett, Oronoco, MN (US);
Wei Huang, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Robert Lefurgy, Austin, TX (US);
Glenn Rueban Miles, Austin, TX (US);
Guillermo Jesus Silva, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided in which a master thermal controller utilizes a primary fan manager to control fans included in a computer system to cool various devices. When the master thermal controller determines that the primary fan manager is unresponsive, the master thermal controller transfers master thermal control to a backup thermal controller. The backup thermal controller creates fan control information based upon sensor information corresponding to the various devices, and sends the fan control information to a backup fan manager. In turn, the backup fan manager adjusts the speed of the fans according to the fan control information.