IP Library Granted Patent US 9,250,663
Granted Patent B2
US 9,250,663 · App. 12/239,995 · Granted Feb 2, 2016

System and method for dynamically modeling data center partitions

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Patent No.
US 9,250,663
App. No.
12/239,995
Granted
Feb 2, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium having programming instructions operable to perform a thermal analysis of a data center and overlay the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to receive a user selection of at least one modeled partition location based on the overlaid thermal analysis and dynamically model a modeled partition for each of the at least one modeled partition location in the data center to create a modeled data center region.

Claims (16)

1. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure, comprising computer implemented steps of: performing a thermal analysis of a data center;

overlaying the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis;

receiving a user selection of at least one modeled partition location based on the overlaid thermal analysis; and

dynamically modeling a modeled partition for each of the at least one modeled partition location in the data center to create a modeled data center region,

dynamically modeling a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system based on the overlaid thermal analysis and the at least one modeled partition location to provide a desired temperature in the modeled data center region,

and updating at least one of the performing, the overlaying, the receiving and the modeling after a predetermined time has expired.

2. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure, comprising computer implemented steps of:

performing a thermal analysis of a data center;

overlaying the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis;

receiving a user selection of at least one modeled partition location based on the overlaid thermal analysis; and

dynamically modeling a modeled partition for each of the at least one modeled partition location in the data center to create a modeled data center region,

wherein:

the at least one modeled partition location comprises a location of at least one vertical or at least one horizontal partition;

the map of the data center includes an elevation plan of the data center;

the thermal analysis is overlaid on the elevation plan such that cool or hot regions of the data center are identified relative to a vertical axis of the data center; and

the dynamically modeling comprises modeling at least one vertical or at least one horizontal partition at the location of the at least one vertical or the at least one horizontal partition to display airflow patterns relative to the vertical axis of the data center.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 13, 2021
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: KYNDRYL, INC.
Reel/Frame 057885/0644 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2008
From: DAWSON, CHRISTOPHER J.; DILUOFFO, VINCENZO V.; HAMILTON, RICK A., II; KENDZIERSKI, MICHAEL D.
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021599/0635 →