Patent ID: 8972217
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G01K,G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for evaluating cooling performance of equipment in a data center, the equipment including a plurality of equipment racks and at least one cooling provider, the method comprising: receiving data regarding each equipment rack of the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, the data including a layout of the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, and a power draw value for each equipment rack; storing the received data; computing, by a computer system, a fraction of total airflow originating from the at least one cooling provider that is captured by each equipment rack and a fraction of total airflow from each equipment rack that is captured by the at least one cooling provider; computing, by the computer system, an ambient air temperature in the data center based on airflows in the data center; computing, by the computer system, an inlet air temperature and an exit air temperature for the at least one cooling provider based on the ambient air temperature, the layout, the power draw value and the fraction of total airflow from each equipment rack that is captured by the at least one cooling provider; for each equipment rack, computing an inlet air temperature and an exit air temperature, by the computer system, based on the ambient air temperature, the layout, the power draw value and the fraction of total airflow originating from the at least one cooling provider that is captured by each equipment rack; and displaying an indication of the inlet air temperature and the exit air temperature for each equipment rack and the at least one cooling provider; wherein computing the inlet air temperature and the exit air temperature of each equipment rack and the at least one cooling provider includes establishing a set of S coupled equations, with S equal to a number of temperature values to be computed, and solving the S coupled equations; and wherein the displayed inlet air temperature and the exit air temperatures are further used to determine at least one configuration of the equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider.