Reducing condensation risk within liquid cooled computers
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRichard B. Finch, Jason T. Hirst, Gerald G. Stanquist
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Abstract
An approach is provided in which a manufacturing test scheduling system predicts a dew point forecast indoor a facility based upon outdoor weather data and indoor environment data. The manufacturing test scheduling system selects time slots in the dew point forecast based upon a pre-defined dew point threshold and, in turn, schedules tests of a liquid cooled computer system during the selected time slots.
Claims9
A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer program code that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions comprising:
- generating an indoor dew point forecast based upon outdoor weather data and indoor environment data, wherein the indoor dew point forecast corresponds to an area indoor a facility;
- selecting one or more time slots in the dew point forecast corresponding to one or more sets of a plurality of predicted dew points in the indoor dew point forecast that are each below a pre-defined dew point threshold;
- and
- performing one or more cold bias tests on a liquid cooled computer system during the selected one or more time slots to inhibit condensation from forming in the liquid cooled computer system while the liquid cooled computer system is tested at a temperature below a minimum system setpoint temperature of the liquid cooled computer system.
An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
- and
- a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of:
- generating an indoor dew point forecast based upon outdoor weather data and indoor environment data, wherein the indoor dew point forecast corresponds to an area indoor a facility;
- selecting one or more time slots in the dew point forecast corresponding to one or more sets of a plurality of predicted dew points in the indoor dew point forecast that are each below a pre-defined dew point threshold;
- and
- performing one or more cold bias tests on a liquid cooled computer system during the selected one or more time slots to inhibit condensation from forming in the liquid cooled computer system while the liquid cooled computer system is tested at a temperature below a minimum system setpoint temperature of the liquid cooled computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.