Patent ID: 8688288

Claim:
A method for managing an infrastructure housing a plurality of first disaggregated heat sources and a plurality of second disaggregated heat sources, wherein each of the plurality of first disaggregated heat sources has a different heat dissipation characteristic as compared with each of the plurality of second disaggregated heat sources, and wherein each of the plurality of first and second disaggregated heat sources comprises an electronic component that performs a particular function and is outside of a casing, the method comprising: determining cooling requirements for each of the plurality of first and second disaggregated heat sources, wherein the plurality of first disaggregated heat sources are positioned in a first homogeneous zone and the plurality of second disaggregated heat sources are positioned in a second homogeneous zone of the infrastructure, wherein the first homogeneous zone is physically and thermally separate from the second homogeneous zone; and associating, by a processor, a first cooling resource with the first homogeneous zone and a second cooling resource with the second homogeneous zone based upon the determined cooling requirements of the plurality of first and second disaggregated heat sources.