Dynamic aisles for computing devices
AssigneeCore Scientific, Inc.
InventorHarsh Patel
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Abstract
Systems and methods for managing airflow for cooling computing devices (e.g. in a data center) in normal and cold environments are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises positioning the computing devices on a plurality of racks with air barriers to create hot and cold aisles. The computing devices may be configured in a first mode to draw in cool air the cold aisles and exhaust heated air into the hot aisles. Temperatures in the cold aisles may be periodically measured. In response to temperatures below a predetermined threshold, one or more of the cold aisles may be converted into a temporary hot aisle by adjusting ventilation openings and configuring a subset of the computing devices to temporarily draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle.
Claims16
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a computational device, which when executed cause the computational device to:
- configure a plurality of computing devices in a first mode to draw in cool air from a plurality of cold aisles and to exhaust heated air into a plurality of hot aisles;
- distribute computing workloads to the plurality of computing devices;
- gathering temperature data;
- and
- in response to the gathered temperature data being below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined time period, changing one of the plurality of cold aisles into a temporary hot aisle by (i) adjusting one or more ventilation openings, (ii) generating tickets identifying a subset of the plurality of computing devices to be reconfigured into in a second mode to draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle;
- and (iii) configuring the subset of the plurality of computing devices in the second mode to draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle, wherein second mode positions of the subset of the plurality of computing devices in the second mode are rotated by 180 degrees from first mode positions of the subset of the plurality of computing devices in the first mode.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a computational device, which when executed cause the computational device to:
- configure a plurality of computing devices with cooling fans in a first mode to draw in cool air from a plurality of cold aisles and to exhaust heated air into a plurality of hot aisles;
- distribute computing workloads to the plurality of computing devices;
- gathering temperature data;
- and
- in response to the gathered temperature data being below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined time period, changing one of the plurality of cold aisles into a temporary hot aisle by (i) adjusting one or more ventilation openings, (ii) generating tickets identifying a subset of the plurality of computing devices to be reconfigured into in a second mode to draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle;
- and (iii) configuring the subset of the plurality of computing devices in the second mode to draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle, wherein the cooling fans of the computing devices in the second mode rotate in a different direction than the cooling fans of the computing devices in the first mode.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a computational device, which when executed cause the computational device to:
- configure a plurality of computing devices in a first mode to draw in cool air from a plurality of cold aisles and to exhaust heated air into a plurality of hot aisles;
- distribute computing workloads to the plurality of computing devices;
- gather temperature data;
- and
- in response to the gathered temperature data being below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined time period, effect a changing of at least one of the plurality of cold aisles into a temporary hot aisle by (i) adjusting one or more ventilation openings, and (ii) generating tickets identifying a subset of the plurality of computing devices to be reconfigured into in a second mode to draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.