Patent ID: 8086359

Claim:
A method for improving thermal efficiency in one or more data centers housing a plurality of computing devices, comprising: measuring a temperature at one or more of the plurality of computing devices having allocated thereto one or more computing workloads; determining whether said measured temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature threshold, said predetermined temperature threshold being set by measuring a maximum temperature and a minimum temperature at the one or more data centers, calculating a ratio between said measured maximum and minimum temperatures, determining whether that calculated temperature ratio falls within a predetermined range of temperature ratios, and if so, determining whether the measured temperature at the one or more of the plurality of computing devices exceeds a predetermined temperature maximum; and if the measured temperature exceeds the predetermined temperature threshold, migrating a sufficient number of the one or more computing workloads to one or more alternate computing devices to reduce said temperature at one or more of the plurality of computing devices to less than or equal to said predetermined temperature threshold.