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Title: Coolant and ambient temperature control for chillerless liquid cooled data centers

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OSTI ID:1241536
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Cooling control methods include measuring a temperature of air provided to a plurality of nodes by an air-to-liquid heat exchanger, measuring a temperature of at least one component of the plurality of nodes and finding a maximum component temperature across all such nodes, comparing the maximum component temperature to a first and second component threshold and comparing the air temperature to a first and second air threshold, and controlling a proportion of coolant flow and a coolant flow rate to the air-to-liquid heat exchanger and the plurality of nodes based on the comparisons.

Research Organization:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
EE0002894
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Number(s):
9,250,636
Application Number:
13/439,471
OSTI ID:
1241536
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Apr 04
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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