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Patent No.:

US 9286135 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2012

Provisioning aggregate computational workloads and air conditioning unit configurations to optimize utility of air conditioning units and processing resources within a data center

Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Rajarshi Das, Armonk, NY (US);

Hendrik F. Hamann, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Vanessa Lopez-Marrero, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Andriy Stepanchuk, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Srinivas Yarlanki, White Plains, NY (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

Edward J. Lenart

Grant A. Johnson

Kennedy Lenart Spraggins LLP

Primary Examiner:

Christopher E Everett

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G05B 11/01 (2006.01); G06Q 10/04 (2012.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5094 (2013.01); G05B 11/01 (2013.01); G06Q 10/04 (2013.01); G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for provisioning aggregate computational workloads and air conditioning unit configurations to optimize utility of air conditioning units and processing resources within a data center are provided. Embodiments include for each air conditioning unit within the data center, determining a thermal zone generated by the air conditioning unit; for a given aggregate computational workload, identifying a plurality of computational workload configurations, each computational workload configuration indicating spatial assignments of the aggregate computational workload among a plurality of processing resources within the data center; for each computational workload configuration, calculating a total minimum energy consumption of the air conditioning units and the processing resources; and selecting the computational workload configuration with the lowest total minimum energy consumption and the determined lowest power air conditioning unit configuration corresponding with the selected computational workload configuration.

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