Patent ID: 9642286
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H05K

Claim:
1. A computing system comprising: cooling canisters mounted in a server rack, wherein individual ones of the cooling canisters comprise: a group of fans, wherein respective ones of the cooling canisters are configured to couple with respective sets of one or more fans of the group of fans; and cooling controllers configured to control the respective sets of fans, wherein individual ones of the cooling controllers are configured to: wherein for a given cooling canister and an adjacent cooling canister, two of the cooling controllers controlling respective sets of fans coupled with the given cooling canister and the adjacent cooling canister are configured to coordinate control of the respective sets of fans to control an amount of air that flows between the given cooling canister and the given adjacent cooling canister via the openings in the canister bodies of the given cooling canister and the given adjacent cooling canister.