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Energy Conservation and Hardware Usage Management for Data Centers

  • US 20140173612A1
  • Filed: 12/13/2012
  • Published: 06/19/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing power management and monitoring of data center resources in a data center that comprises a plurality of processing elements, the method comprising the steps of:

  • detecting, by a management system of the data center, a condition for selecting new processing elements;

    selecting one or more processing elements as the new processing elements based on at least a temperature parameter and a usage history parameter of at least some of the plurality of processing elements; and

    consolidating workload onto the new processing elements.

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