Patent ID: 7953574

Claim:
An information system comprising: a plurality of first computers located in a first section of the information system, and a plurality of second computers located in a second section of the information system; said plurality of first computers each having a first processing load; said plurality of second computers each having a second processing load; a first temperature sensor for sensing a first temperature condition for the first section; and a second temperature sensor for sensing a second temperature condition for the second section, wherein each processing load of said first and said second processing loads is determined by amount of CPU usage, number of transactions per unit time, and amount of transferred data per unit time for process of said each processing load, wherein, when a heat distribution determined from the first temperature condition and the second temperature condition is not in conformance with a predetermined rule for heat distribution, the information system is configured to relocate a first portion of the first processing load to the second computers or relocate a second portion of the second processing load to the first computers for attempting to bring the heat distribution into conformance with the rule, wherein there are a plurality of said first sections and a plurality of said second sections, wherein the heat distribution rule designates said first sections to be high temperature sections and said second sections to be low temperature sections, and wherein the heat distribution rule is implemented by assigning a higher processing load to the first computers in the high temperature first sections than to the second computers in the low temperature second sections.