Liquid cooling leakage abatement system and method of using the same
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsAlaric J. Silveira, Pushkala Iyer, Sudhir Vittal Shetty
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a liquid cooling leakage abatement system includes a systems manager having executable instructions for obtaining location information for each of a plurality of components of a computing cluster in which at least a portion of the components are cooled by a liquid cooling system via a liquid coolant. When the systems manager receives leakage information associated with a leak in the liquid cooling system used to cool a first component, it infers a second component that is affected by the leak, and generates an alert message indicating that the first and second components that are affected by the leak.
Claims16
A liquid cooling leakage abatement system comprising:
- a systems manager stored in at least one memory and executed by at least one processor to:
- obtain location information for each of a plurality of components of a computing cluster, at least a portion of the components cooled by a liquid cooling system using a liquid coolant;
- and
- when the systems manager receives leakage information associated with a leak in the liquid cooling system that is used to cool a first component:
- infer, using the obtained location information, a second component that is affected by the leak by determining that the second component is located within a specified distance from the first component;
- to determine the specified distance:
- obtain flowrate information associated with a flowrate of the leak;
- and
- using the obtained flowrate, estimate a propagation rate at which the liquid coolant contacts one or more other of the components, the propagation rate comprising the specified distance over an ongoing duration of the leak;
- and
- generate an alert message indicating the first and second components that are affected by the leak.
A liquid cooling leakage abatement method comprising:
- obtaining, using instructions stored in at least one memory and executed by at least one processor, location information for each of a plurality of components of a computing cluster, at least a portion of the components cooled by a liquid cooling system using a liquid coolant;
- and
- when leakage information associated with a leak in the liquid cooling system that is used to cool a first component is received:
- inferring, using the instructions, a second component that is affected by the leak using the obtained location information by determining that the second component is located within a specified distance from the first component;
- to determine the specified distance:
- obtain flowrate information associated with a flowrate of the leak;
- and
- using the obtained flowrate, estimate a propagation rate at which the liquid coolant contacts one or more other of the components, the propagation rate comprising the specified distance over an ongoing duration of the leak;
- and
- generating, using the instructions, an alert message indicating the first and second components that are affected by the leak.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- obtain location information for each of a plurality of components of a computing cluster, at least a portion of the components cooled by a liquid cooling system using a liquid coolant;
- and
- when the systems manager receives leakage information associated with a leak in the liquid cooling system that is used to cool a first component:
- infer, using the obtained location information, a second component that is affected by the leak by determining that the second component is located within a specified distance from the first component;
- to determine the specified distance:
- obtain flowrate information associated with a flowrate of the leak;
- and
- using the obtained flowrate, estimate a propagation rate at which the liquid coolant contacts one or more other of the components, the propagation rate comprising the specified distance over an ongoing duration of the leak;
- and
- generate an alert message indicating the first and second components that are affected by the leak.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.