Patent ID: 8449173
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G01M,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for testing a computing system, comprising: monitoring a temperature of a component in the computing system; running a series of calibrated workloads on the component, wherein each calibrated workload delivers a specific amount of power to the component; and using a monitoring system to analyze a fluctuation of the component's temperature resulting from the calibrated workloads wherein analyzing the fluctuations of temperature involves at least one of determining a gradient of the fluctuations or determining a range of the fluctuations, and determining whether a system log is available; if the system log is unavailable, the thermal performance of the component is determined based on analyzing the fluctuations of temperature by the monitoring system; if the system log is available, obtaining and updating the system log, wherein the available system log further comprises historical data from the computing system, the historical data comprises monitored temperatures from a previous thermal test or expected fluctuations for each of the calibrated workloads, and comparing the analyzed fluctuations of the component's temperature with the expected fluctuations or with the previous thermal test to determine a thermal performance of the component.