Correlation of vent tiles and racks
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsCullen Bash, Chandrakant Patel, Ratnesh Sharma, Abdlmonem Beitelmal
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Abstract
In a method for correlating vent tiles with racks, the vent tiles are opened to a first setting and the mass flow rates of air received by the racks and supplied through the vent tiles are determined. In addition, one of the vent tiles is closed to obtain a second setting and the mass flow rates of air received by the racks and supplied through the vent tiles are determined at the second setting. The vent tiles and the racks are correlated based upon the determined mass flow rates of air received by the racks and the mass flow rates of air supplied through the vent tiles at the first and second settings.
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A method for correlating vent tiles with racks, said method comprising:
- (a) setting the vent tiles to a first setting;
- (b) determining mass flow rates of air received by the racks;
- (c) determining mass flow rates of air supplied through the vent tiles;
- (d) closing one of the vent tiles to obtain a second setting;
- (e) repeating steps (b) and (c);
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- (f) correlating the vent tiles and the racks based upon the determined mass flow rates of air received by the racks and the mass flow rates of air supplied through the vent tiles at the first and second settings.
A computing device configured to evaluate relationships between vent tiles and racks, said computing device comprising:
- an input module configured to receive communications from one or more sensing devices;
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- a vent tile influence coefficient (VTI) calculation module, wherein the VTI is configured to correlate a relationship between the vent tiles and the racks.
A system for evaluating relationships between vent tiles and racks, said system comprising:
- means for determining mass flow rates of air delivered to the racks;
- means for determining mass flow rates of air supplied through the racks;
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- means for calculating a vent tile influence coefficient, said vent tile influence coefficient correlating a relationship between the vent tiles and the racks.
A computer readable storage medium on which is embedded one or more computer programs, said one or more computer programs implementing a method of correlating vent tiles with racks, said one or more computer programs comprising a set of instructions for:
- determining mass flow rates of air received by the racks;
- determining mass flow rates of air supplied through the vent tiles;
- determining mass flow rates of air received by the racks with the one of the vent tiles closed;
- determining mass flow rates of air supplied by the vent tiles with the one of the vent tiles closed;
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- 10 correlating the vent tiles and the racks based upon the determined mass flow rates of air received by the racks and the mass flow rates of air supplied through the vent tiles at a first iteration and a second iteration with the one of the vent tiles closed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.