Patent ID: 8131515
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G05D,G06F,H05K

Abstract:
1. A facility synthesizer system generating a description of facilities to be used in a data center, the facility synthesizer comprising: a facility attributes library including a device layer, a connectivity layer and a configuration layer, wherein the device layer includes descriptions for components of facilities that are operable to be used in the data center, the connectivity layer includes description for connecting the facilities, and the configuration layer includes description of components for configuring and managing other components to be used in the data center; facility templates describing commonly-used facilities; and a facility synthesizer, executed by a processor, to receive a compute description of computer resources to be used in the data center, and to use the compute description and at least one of the facility attributes library and one or more of the facility templates to determine facilities to be used in the data center to support the computer resources in the data center, wherein the facility synthesizer outputs a facility description including a description of the facilities to be used in the data center, and wherein the facilities to be used in the data center comprise at least one of power systems and cooling systems.