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US 2017/0303443 A1Published application
Data center and control method of data center
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsSatoshi INANO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Hiroyoshi Kodama, Hiroshi ENDO, Yukiko Wakino
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Abstract
A data center includes: a liquid immersion tank that holds an information processing apparatus in a cooling liquid; a cooling apparatus that cools a pipe exposed to outside air and through which the cooling liquid flows from the liquid immersion tank; and a pump apparatus that delivers the cooling liquid from the cooling apparatus to the liquid immersion tank.
Claims16
A data center comprising:
- a liquid immersion tank that holds an information processing apparatus in a cooling liquid;
- a cooling apparatus that cools a pipe exposed to outside air and through which the cooling liquid flows from the liquid immersion tank;
- and
- a pump apparatus that delivers the cooling liquid from the cooling apparatus to the liquid immersion tank.
1 more element
A control method of a data center including a liquid immersion tank, a cooling apparatus, and a pump apparatus, the control method comprising:
- controlling, by a cooling apparatus controller included in the data center, the cooling apparatus that cools a pipe exposed to outside air and through which the cooling liquid flows from the liquid immersion tank that holds an information processing apparatus in a cooling liquid;
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- controlling, by a pump controller included in the data center, the pump apparatus that delivers the cooling liquid from the cooling apparatus to the liquid immersion tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.