Managing queue distribution between critical datacenter and flexible datacenter

• US 10,367,353 B1
• Filed: 10/30/2018
• Issued: 07/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lancium LLC
• Original Assignee: Lancium LLC
• Inventors: McNamara, Michael T., Henson, David J., Cline, Jr., Raymond E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Serrao, Ranodhi
• Application Number:
  US16/175,335
• Time in Patent Office: 273 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/329 by task scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4893 taking 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: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration
• 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 2300/20 The dispersed energy generation being of renewable origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/16 The load or loads being an Information and Communication Technology [ICT] facility
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/12 for adjusting voltage in ac networks by changing a characteristic of the network load
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading

Abstract

Systems include one or more critical datacenter connected to behind-the-meter flexible datacenters. The critical datacenter is powered by grid power and not necessarily collocated with the flexible datacenters, which are powered “behind the meter.” When a computational operation to be performed at the critical datacenter is identified and determined that it can be performed more efficiently or advantageously at a flexible datacenter, the computational operation is instead obtained by the flexible datacenters for performance. The critical datacenter and flexible datacenters preferably share a dedicated communication pathway to enable high-bandwidth, low-latency, secure data transmissions. A queue system may be used to organize computational operations waiting for distribution to either the critical datacenter or the flexible datacenter.

Claims

1. A system comprising

a flexible datacenter comprising:

a behind-the-meter power input system,

a first power distribution system,

a datacenter control system, and

a first plurality of computing systems powered by the behind-the-meter power input system via the first power distribution system, wherein the flexible datacenter control system is configured to modulate power delivery to the plurality of computing systems based on one or more monitored power system conditions or an operational directive;

a critical datacenter comprising;

a power input system,

a second power distribution system,

a critical datacenter control system, and

a second plurality of computing systems powered by the power input system via the second power distribution system;

a queue system configured to organize a plurality of computational operations, wherein the queue system is distributed into multiple queue subsystems with each queue subsystem organizing a set of computational operations according to rules associated with that queue subsystem;

a first communication link connecting the flexible datacenter, the critical datacenter, and the queue system; and

a routing control system configured to (i) identify, using the queue system, a computational operation to be performed, (ii) determine whether to route the computational operation to the flexible datacenter, and (iii) based on a determination to route the computational operation to the flexible datacenter, cause the computational operation to be sent to the flexible datacenter via the first communication link.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the routing control system comprises a remote master control system.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the remote master control system is not collocated with the flexible datacenter.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the remote master control system is not collocated with the critical datacenter.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the routing control system and the flexible datacenter control system are a single control system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the routing control system and the critical datacenter control system are a single control system.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first communication link includes a remote master control system within the first communication link.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a remote master control system communicatively coupled to the flexible datacenter via a second communication link, wherein the computational operation does not travel on the second communication link.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the flexible datacenter and the critical datacenter are not collocated.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein monitored power system conditions comprises one or more of excess local power generation at a local station level, excess local power generation that a grid cannot receive, local power generation subject to economic curtailment, local power generation subject to reliability curtailment, local power generation subject to power factor correction, low local power generation, start up local power generation situations, transient local power generation situations, or testing local power generation situations where there is an economic advantage to using local behind-the-meter power generation.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the routing control system controls distribution of the plurality of computation operations from the queue system.

12. A system comprising

a plurality of flexible datacenters, each flexible datacenter comprising:

a behind-the-meter power input system,

a first power distribution system,

a datacenter control system, and

a first plurality of computing systems powered by the behind-the-meter power input system, wherein the flexible datacenter control system is configured to modulate power delivery to the plurality of computing systems based on one or more monitored power system conditions or an operational directive;

a critical datacenter comprising;

a power input system,

a second power distribution system,

a critical datacenter control system, and

a second plurality of computing systems powered by the power input system via the second power distribution system;

a queue system configured to organize a plurality of computational operations, wherein the queue system is distributed into multiple queue subsystems with each queue subsystem organizing a set of computational operations according to rules associated with that queue subsystem;

a first communication link connecting the plurality of flexible datacenter, the critical datacenter, and the queue system; and

a routing control system configured to (i) identify, using the queue system, a computational operation to be performed, (ii) determine whether to route the computational operation to a flexible datacenter in the plurality of flexible datacenters, (iii) based on a determination to route the computational operation to a flexible datacenter in the plurality of flexible datacenters, determine a specific flexible datacenter in the plurality of flexible datacenters to route the computational operation to, and (iv) cause the computational operation to be sent to the specific flexible datacenter via the first communication link.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the routing control system comprises a remote master control system.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the remote master control system is not collocated with the flexible datacenter.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the remote master control system is not collocated with the critical datacenter.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the routing control system and the flexible datacenter control system are a single control system.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the routing control system and the critical datacenter control system are a single control system.

18. The system of claim 12, further comprising a remote master control system communicatively coupled to the flexible datacenter via a second communication link, wherein the computational operation does not travel on the second communication link.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the queue system is distributed into a first queue subsystem and a second queue subsystem,

wherein a first set of flexible datacenters of the plurality of flexible datacenters are configured to obtain computational operations from the first queue subsystem, and

wherein a second set of flexible datacenters of the plurality of flexible datacenters are configured to obtain computational operations from the second queue subsystem.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein monitored power system conditions comprises one or more of excess local power generation at a local station level, excess local power generation that a grid cannot receive, local power generation subject to economic curtailment, local power generation subject to reliability curtailment, local power generation subject to power factor correction, low local power generation, start up local power generation situations, transient local power generation situations, low cost power, or testing local power generation situations where there is an economic advantage to using local behind-the-meter power generation.