Patent ID: 8457805
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for power distribution considering a cooling node, the computer implemented method comprising: determining a power demand of a data processing environment for a period, the data processing environment comprising a set of computing nodes and cooling nodes; determining that the power demand will exceed a limit on electrical power available to the data processing environment for the period if the computing nodes and the cooling nodes in the data processing environment are operated in a first configuration; and redistributing a first amount of power, wherein the redistributing the first amount of power is both (i) from a first cooling node in the data processing environment to a first computing node in the data processing environment, and (ii) from a second computing node in the data processing environment to a second cooling node in the data processing environment, such that a temperature related performance threshold of a subset of computing nodes is at least met.