Patent ID: 8412960
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: G06F,G11B,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with a power consumption reduction support program containing instructions executable on a computer, the computer being capable of communicating with a plurality of servers installed within a facility, and capable of accessing a table in which server information including an installation position and a temperature of each of said servers within said facility is stored, the program causing the computer to execute a process comprising: detecting a group of not-yet-powered-on servers from said plurality of servers; calculating, for each not-yet-powered on server of the group of not-yet-powered-on servers, an index value indicating a correlation of heat generation amounts between said not-yet-powered-on server and powered-on servers including both accumulated distances and accumulated temperature ratios between said not-yet-powered on server and said powered-on servers, based on said server information stored in said table; deciding a server which becomes a power-on target, from said group of the not-yet-powered-on servers, based on said calculated index value of each not-yet-powered-on server; and outputting a decision result which has been decided.