Controlling electromagnetic radiation in a data center
AssigneeLenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsMilton Cobo, James E. Hughes, Thomas D. Pahel, Jr., Pravin S. Patel, Challis L. Purrington, Jack P. Wong
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Abstract
Controlling electromagnetic (‘EM’) radiation in a data center having a number EM sections, including: receiving, by an EM controller, a specification of preferred EM radiation characteristics for the data center; and setting, by the EM controller, a state of each EM section in accordance with the specification, where the state of each EM section may be one of: an absorption state in which the EM section absorbs EM radiation or a reflection state in which the EM section reflects EM radiation.
Claims8
An apparatus comprising:
- a computer processor,
- a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
- receiving a specification of preferred electromagnetic (‘EM’) radiation characteristics for a data center, the data center comprising a plurality of EM sections, each EM section comprising an electrically conductive metal;
- and
- setting a state of each EM section in accordance with the specification, wherein the state of each EM section comprises one of:
- an absorption state in which the EM section absorbs EM radiation or a reflection state in which the EM section reflects EM radiation wherein setting a state of each EM section in accordance with the specification further comprises:
- setting at least one EM section to reflect EM radiation including electrically decoupling the EM section to a ground reference voltage;
- and
- setting at least one other EM section to absorb EM radiation including electrically coupling the EM section to a ground reference voltage.
A computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable medium and computer program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:
- receiving a specification of preferred electromagnetic (‘EM’) radiation characteristics for a data center, the data center comprising a plurality of EM sections, each EM section comprising an electrically conductive metal;
- and
- setting a state of each EM section in accordance with the specification, wherein the state of each EM section comprises one of:
- an absorption state in which the EM section absorbs EM radiation or a reflection state in which the EM section reflects EM radiation wherein setting a state of each EM section in accordance with the specification further comprises:
- setting at least one EM section to reflect EM radiation including electrically decoupling the EM section to a ground reference voltage;
- and
- setting at least one other EM section to absorb EM radiation including electrically coupling the EM section to a ground reference voltage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.