INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ALLOCATION OF PROCESSING

• US 20130111252A1
• Filed: 12/19/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Kensuke, TANAKA, Tsutomu, KURITA, Tomochika, SASA, Masaaki, YAMAMOTO, Tamotsu
• Granted Patent: US 9,075,592 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/340
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/263 Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC G06F1/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/30 Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations for resetting only G06F1/24
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5094 where the allocation takes into account power or heat criteria power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 1/14 Balancing the load in a network
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/00 Circuit arrangements for emergency or stand-by power supply, e.g. for emergency lighting
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/061 for DC powered loads

Abstract

An information processing system includes: a plurality of information processing devices; a plurality of power storage devices configured to supply DC power to any of the plurality of information processing devices; a plurality power source devices configured to supply DC power to the plurality of power storage devices; and an arithmetic unit configured to, in accordance with the charged state of any of the plurality of power storage devices and a task to be processed by the information processing device to which DC power is supplied from the power storage device, allocating the task to be processed by the information processing device to an information processing device to which DC power is not supplied from the power storage device.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a plurality of information processing devices;

a plurality of power storage devices configured to supply DC power to any of the plurality of information processing devices;

a plurality power source devices configured to supply DC power to the plurality of power storage devices; and

an arithmetic unit configured to, in accordance with the charged state of any of the plurality of power storage devices and an amount of a task to be processed by the information processing device to which DC power is supplied from the power storage device, allocate the task to be processed by the information processing device to an information processing device to which DC power is not supplied from the power storage device.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the information processing system is AC equipment to which AC power is supplied from outside, and

the plurality of power source devices includes an AC-DC converter configured to convert the AC power into DC power, respectively.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the power source device includes a power consumption monitoring unit configured to monitor power consumption of the corresponding information processing device,

the power storage device includes a charge power control unit configured to control the storage of DC power from the power source device and a charged capacity monitoring unit configured to monitor the charged capacity, and

the arithmetic unit collects the power consumption of the information processing device detected by the power consumption monitoring unit and the charged capacity detected by the charged capacity monitoring unit.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of information processing devices forms a computer having a plurality of servers and a virtualized resource is allocated to the plurality of servers.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the arithmetic unit is formed by one of the plurality of information processing devices.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the arithmetic unit allocates an amount of the task to the information processing device corresponding to the power storage device the charged state of which is lower than that of the other power storage devices less than the amount of the task of the other information processing devices.

7. An information processing system comprising:

a plurality of information processing devices configured to distribute and process a task;

a plurality of power storage devices provided in correspondence to the plurality of information processing devices and configured to supply DC power to the corresponding information processing device;

a plurality of power storage devices provided in correspondence to the plurality of information processing devices and configured to back up DC power from the corresponding power source device; and

an arithmetic unit configured to allocate the task to the plurality of information processing devices in accordance with the charged state of the plurality of power storage devices.

8. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein

the information processing system is AC equipment to which AC power is supplied from outside, and

the plurality of power source devices includes an AC-DC converter configured to convert the AC power into DC power, respectively.

9. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein

the power source device includes a power consumption monitoring unit configured to monitor power consumption of the corresponding information processing device,

the power storage device includes a charge power control unit configured to control the storage of DC power from the power source device and a charged capacity monitoring unit configured to monitor the charged capacity, and

the arithmetic unit collects the power consumption of the information processing device detected by the power consumption monitoring unit and the charged capacity detected by the charged capacity monitoring unit.

10. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein

the plurality of information processing devices forms a computer having a plurality of servers and a virtualized resource is allocated to the plurality of servers.

11. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein

the arithmetic unit is formed by one of the plurality of information processing devices.

12. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein

the arithmetic unit allocates an amount of the task to the information processing device corresponding to the power storage device the charged state of which is lower than that of the other power storage devices less than the amount of the task of the other information processing devices.

13. An uninterruptible power system comprising:

a plurality of power source devices provided in correspondence to a plurality of pieces of DC equipment configured to perform processing in collaboration with one another and configured to supply DC power to the corresponding DC equipment;

a plurality of power storage devices provided in correspondence to the plurality of pieces of DC equipment and configured to back up DC power from the corresponding power source device; and

a control unit configured to allocate the processing to the plurality of pieces of DC equipment in accordance with the charged state of the plurality of power storage devices.

14. The uninterruptible power system according to claim 13, wherein

the plurality of pieces of DC equipment and the uninterruptible power system form AC equipment to which AC power is supplied from outside, and

the plurality of power source devices includes an AC-DC converter configured to convert the AC power into DC power, respectively.