OPTIMIZING THERMAL PERFORMANCE USING FEED-BACK DIRECTED OPTIMIZATION

• US 20070260894A1
• Filed: 05/03/2006
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Aguilar, Maximino, Johns, Charles, Stafford, James, Nutter, Mark
• Application Number:
  US11/381,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20070260894A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/4432 Reducing the energy consumption
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for optimizing thermal performance of a computer system. A set of system resources associated with the computer system are identified. A thermal index is requested for each of the set of system resources to form a set of thermal indexes. A thermal constraint is loaded and software is compiled using the set of thermal indexes in order not to exceed the thermal constraint.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for optimizing thermal performance of a computer system, the computer implemented method comprising:

identifying a set of system resources associated with the computer system;

requesting a thermal index for each of the set of system resources to form a set of thermal indexes;

loading a thermal constraint; and

compiling software using the set of thermal indexes in order not to exceed the thermal constraint.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the thermal constraint in a data structure.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the thermal constraint in predefined.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the thermal index is a thermal efficiency for each of the system resources in the set of system resources.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the software is compiled using a compiler.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the thermal index is generated by a compiler.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the thermal index is a single number.

8. A data processing system comprising:

a bus system;

a communications system connected to the bus system;

a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes a set of instructions; and

a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to identify a set of system resources associated with the computer system;

request a thermal index for each of the set of system resources to form a set of thermal indexes;

load a thermal constraint; and

compile software using the set of thermal indexes in order not to exceed the thermal constraint.

9. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to store the thermal constraint in a data structure.

10. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the thermal constraint in predefined.

11. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the thermal index is a thermal efficiency for each of the system resources in the set of system resources.

12. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the software is compiled using a compiler.

13. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the thermal index is generated by a compiler.

14. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the thermal index is a single number.

15. A computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium including computer usable program code for optimizing thermal performance of a computer system, the computer program product including;

computer usable program code for identifying a set of system resources associated with the computer system;

computer usable program code for requesting a thermal index for each of the set of system resources to form a set of thermal indexes;

computer usable program code for loading a thermal constraint; and

computer usable program code for compiling software using the set of thermal indexes in order not to exceed the thermal constraint.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further including:

computer usable program code for storing the thermal constraint in a data structure.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the thermal constraint in predefined.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the thermal index is a thermal efficiency for each of the system resources in the set of system resources.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the software is compiled using a compiler.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the thermal index is generated by a compiler and wherein the thermal index is a single number.