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| 20090251860 | POWER-EFFICENT DATA CENTER - An illustrative power-efficient data center is described for operating in an uncontrolled environment in one scenario. The data center includes an air moving system that applies unconditioned air to its resource items. The resource items are stripped down to provide a substantially minimum set of components for performing the data center's core functions. Various illustrative techniques for managing a power-efficient data center are also described. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254763 | MANAGEMENT OF POWER-EFFICIENT DATA CENTER - An illustrative power-efficient data center is described for operating in an uncontrolled environment in one scenario. The data center includes an air moving system that applies unconditioned air to resource items. The resource items are stripped down to provide a substantially minimum set of components for performing the data center'core functions. Various illustrative techniques for managing a power-efficient data center are also described. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100141039 | HIGH AVAILABILITY, HIGH EFFICIENCY DATA CENTER ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION - Unlike symmetric power feeds for dual-corded server environments, an asymmetrical power system for high availability environments uses an imbalanced power feed system, allowing lower cost implementation and, in some cases, reduced energy loss in the primary power supply path. One asymmetric power feed uses a direct power feed to supply normal operating power and uses a second system to supply back up power via a switched, conditioned, path with UPS and generator. Because the main power delivery is through the direct line, reliability and power loss are improved. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100188810 | SELF-CONTAINED AND MODULAR AIR-COOLED CONTAINERIZED SERVER COOLING - A modular server cooling unit user standard dimension modules to build a variety of components for use in cooling a server or server farm. One module may be the module in which the server(s) are mounted. Another module may be an exhaust plenum, drawing air through the server module and exhausting the air to the outside. A third module may be a cooling module through which outside air is drawn, filtered and optionally cooled, for example, using an adiabatic, or water-wash, cooler. Exhaust air may be selectively mixed with air from the cooling module to provide finer control of server temperature and humidity. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100223085 | MODULARIZATION OF DATA CENTER FUNCTIONS - In one example, a data center may be built in modular components that may be pre-manufactured and separately deployable. Each modular component may provide functionality such as server capacity, cooling capacity, fire protection, resistance to electrical failure. Some components may be added to the data center by connecting them to the center's utility spine, and others may be added by connecting them to other components. The spine itself may be a modular component, so that spine capacity can be expanded or contracted by adding or removing spine modules. The various components may implement functions that are part of standards for various levels of reliability for data centers. Thus, the reliability level that a data center meets may be increased or decreased to fit the circumstances by adding or removing components. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100333105 | PRECOMPUTATION FOR DATA CENTER LOAD BALANCING - Pre-computing a portion of forecasted workloads may enable load-balancing of data center workload, which may ultimately reduce capital and operational costs associated with data centers. Computing tasks performed by the data centers may be analyzed to identify computing tasks that are eligible for pre-computing, and may be performed prior to an actual data request from a user or entity. In some aspects, the pre-computing tasks may be performed during a low-volume workload period prior to a high-volume workload period to reduce peaks that typically occur in data center workloads that do not utilize pre-computation. Statistical modeling methods can be used to make predictions about the tasks that can be expected to maximally contribute to bottlenecks at data centers and to guide the speculative computing. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110278928 | WIND-POWERED DATA CENTER - This document describes various techniques for powering a computer data center using a wind-powered generator. The computer data center may include network connected servers that are electrically connected to, and powered by, the wind-powered generator. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110296155 | AUTOMATICALLY STARTING SERVERS AT LOW TEMPERATURES - This document describes various techniques for automatically starting servers at low temperatures. A server may be powered on into a heating mode responsive to determining that a temperature of the server is below an operational temperature range. The server may then be restarted when the temperature of the server has increased to a temperature that is within the operational temperature range. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110296225 | Resource-Based Adaptive Server Loading - Resource-based adaptive server loading is described. In embodiments, a current load level can be determined for a resource that is utilized by an adaptive server system to process computer-executable instructions that are a dynamic computational demand on the adaptive server system. The current load level is compared with a target load level for the resource to establish a resource load level comparison. The adaptive server system can then be reconfigured, based on the resource load level comparison, to change the current load level on the resource for resource overload protection. | 12-01-2011 |
