Patent ID: 8457807
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F,H05K

Abstract:
1. A computer usable program product comprising a computer usable non-transitory storage medium including computer usable code for thermal relationships based workload planning in a data processing environment, the computer usable code comprising: computer usable code for determining, for a data processing system having a cooling correspondence with a cooling unit in the data processing environment, a fraction of an additional heat generation potential of the data processing system that the cooling unit will have to dissipate, wherein the additional heat generation potential of the data processing system is an amount of heat, in addition to a present amount of heat generated by the data processing system, that the data processing system will generate when the data processing system is operated at a predetermined capacity level, and wherein the cooling correspondence is a thermal relationship between the data processing system and the cooling unit; computer usable code for computing, using the fraction and a cooling capacity utilization of the cooling unit at a given time, an expected cooling capacity utilization; and computer usable code for adjusting a workload on the data processing system, responsive to the expected cooling capacity utilization exceeding a threshold.