Patent ID: 8180494

Claim:
A method implemented in a computer infrastructure comprising computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium being operable to: perform a thermal analysis of a data center; overlay the thermal analysis on a map of the data center to provide an overlaid thermal analysis, the map comprising one or more indications of one or more portions of computing resources of the data center that are to be maintained in cool environments and one or more indications of one or more portions of the computing resources that are to operate in higher temperature environments than the cool environments; dynamically control at least one blower and at least one vent in the data center based on the overlaid thermal analysis to direct cool air to a section of the data center in need of cooling; update the thermal analysis and the overlaid thermal analysis upon the occurrence of a temperature change in the data center beyond a predetermined threshold; update the thermal analysis and the overlaid thermal analysis upon the occurrence of a computational resource usage change in the data center beyond a predetermined threshold; prioritize the one or more portions of the computing resources that are to operate in the higher temperature environments based on, in each of the one or more portions of the computing resources that are to operate in the higher temperature environments, at least one of: one or more applications being processed; a rate of change of temperature; a rate of change of humidity; and a risk of overheating one or more servers; and dynamically control the at least one blower and the at least one vent in the data center further based on the prioritizing of the one or more portions of the computing resources that are to operate in the higher temperature environments.