System and method for dynamically modeling data center partitions

• US 9,250,663 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dawson, Christopher J., Diluoffo, Vincenzo V., Hamilton, Rick A. II, Kendzierski, Michael D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rivas, Omar Fernandez
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cothran, Bernard E
• Application Number:
  US12/239,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20100082309A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,682 Days
• Field of Search: 703/5, D23/325, D23/333
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20836 Thermal management, e.g. server temperature control
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium having programming instructions operable to perform a thermal analysis of a data center and overlay the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to receive a user selection of at least one modeled partition location based on the overlaid thermal analysis and dynamically model a modeled partition for each of the at least one modeled partition location in the data center to create a modeled data center region.

Claims

1. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure, comprising computer implemented steps of:

performing a thermal analysis of a data center;

overlaying the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis;

receiving a user selection of at least one modeled partition location based on the overlaid thermal analysis; and

dynamically modeling a modeled partition for each of the at least one modeled partition location in the data center to create a modeled data center region,

dynamically modeling a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system based on the overlaid thermal analysis and the at least one modeled partition location to provide a desired temperature in the modeled data center region,

and updating at least one of the performing, the overlaying, the receiving and the modeling after a predetermined time has expired.

2. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure, comprising computer implemented steps of:

performing a thermal analysis of a data center;

overlaying the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis;

receiving a user selection of at least one modeled partition location based on the overlaid thermal analysis; and

dynamically modeling a modeled partition for each of the at least one modeled partition location in the data center to create a modeled data center region,

wherein;

the at least one modeled partition location comprises a location of at least one vertical or at least one horizontal partition;

the map of the data center includes an elevation plan of the data center;

the thermal analysis is overlaid on the elevation plan such that cool or hot regions of the data center are identified relative to a vertical axis of the data center; and

the dynamically modeling comprises modeling at least one vertical or at least one horizontal partition at the location of the at least one vertical or the at least one horizontal partition to display airflow patterns relative to the vertical axis of the data center.