Managing queue distribution between critical datacenter and flexible datacenter

• US 11,342,746 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2019
• Issued: 05/24/2022
• 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:
  US16/573,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20200136388A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 that is positioned to receive electrical power directly from a power generation system without the received power flowing through a grid comprising,

a behind-the-meter (“

BTM”

) power input system configured to receive power from a power generation system prior to the power undergoing step-up transformation for transmission to the grid and provide the received power to the flexible datacenter instead of sending the received power to the grid;

a first computing system powered by the BTM power input system;

a queue system configured to organize a plurality of computational operations; and

a second computing system configured to;

determine, using the queue system, a computational operation for performance;

determine an amount of BTM power that is available to the first computing system;

determine whether to assign the computational operation for performance at the first computing system; and

based on the determination to assign the computational operation for performance at the first computing system and the determination of the amount of BTM power that is available to the first computing system, assign the computational operation for performance at the first computing system.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the queue system includes multiple queue subsystems, and wherein each queue subsystem organizes a set of computational operations of the plurality of computational operations according to rules associated with the queue subsystem.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the flexible datacenter includes at least one queue subsystem of the multiple queue subsystems.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one queue subsystem organizes computational operations for subsequent performance by at least the first computing system of the flexible datacenter.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the second computing system is configured to determine whether to assign the computational operation for performance at the first computing system based on a quantity of computational operations awaiting performance at the at least one queue subsystem.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the second computing system is further configured to determine whether to assign the computational operation for performance at the first computing system based on the BTM power that is available to the first computing system.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the second computing system is positioned remotely from the flexible datacenter.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the second computing system is configured to modulate power delivery to the first computing system based on one or more monitored power system conditions.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more monitored power system conditions comprises:

behind-the-meter (“

BTM”

) power availability at the first computing system.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more monitored power system conditions comprises:

one or more of excess local power generation at a local station level, excess local power generation that the 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 flexible datacenter further comprises:

a datacenter control system, wherein the datacenter control system is configured to modulate power delivery to the first computing system based on an operational directive.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the datacenter control system is configured to receive the operational directive from the second computing system via wireless communication.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second flexible datacenter, wherein a second queue subsystem of the queue system is located at the second flexible datacenter.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the flexible datacenter is coupled to a first power generation system and the second flexible datacenter is coupled to a second power generation system, and

wherein the second computing system is configured to determine whether to route the computational operation to the first computing system based on a combination of BTM power availability at the flexible datacenter and the second flexible datacenter and respective quantities of computational operations at a queue subsystem at the flexible datacenter and the second queue subsystem at the second flexible datacenter.