Patent ID: 9164805
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F,G10K,H04L,H05K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining a correlation between percent utilization and noise level for each of a plurality of compute node types; obtaining an inventory of a plurality of compute nodes in a cluster, wherein the inventory identifies each of the compute nodes by a compute node type, and wherein the plurality of compute nodes includes two or more compute node types; determining a percent utilization of each of the compute nodes; for each compute node of an identified compute node type, determining a noise level using the determined percent utilization for the compute node as input into the correlation between percent utilization and noise level for the identified compute node type; calculating an overall noise level of the cluster as a function of the noise level determined for each compute node; and distributing workload among the plurality of compute nodes to reduce the calculated overall noise level.