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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2014
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Bryan David Kelly, Redmond, WA (US);
Badriddine Khessib, Redmond, WA (US);
Sriram Govindan, Redmond, WA (US);
Sriram Sankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Brandon Aaron Rubenstein, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Management of infrastructure devices is performed by computing devices that are associated with the processing being provided by the data center, such as chassis managers. A master is first selected through polling or consensus algorithms, and then subsequently the master is endowed with the authority to manage infrastructure devices and generate the control output to such infrastructure devices. Alternatively, no master need be elected and, instead, output to such infrastructure devices is generated by a computing device selected utilizing polling or consensus algorithms, and in accordance with a management decision made through polling or consensus algorithms. The interplay between the cooling apparatuses of individual server computing devices and the cooling apparatuses of the data center as a whole is also managed to increase the portion of the cooling of server computing devices provided by data center air movers. Control of data center air movers can be determined empirically or predictively.