Patent ID: 7644051

Claim:
A method for managing a data center having a plurality of electronic components configured to generate varying levels of heat loads under different power level utilizations, said method comprising: collecting data for inclusion in a training set of data, said data comprising heat loads generated by the plurality of electronic components at multiple locations in the data center resulting from various power profiles, wherein each of the various power profiles comprises a different power level utilization arrangement among the plurality of electronic components; implementing a machine learning application to develop a model designed to predict a plurality of thermal topologies of the data center under varying power profiles using the training set of data, wherein each of the plurality of thermal profiles is a function of a physical topology, a cooling profile, and a power profile of the data center; and implementing the model to iteratively predict a plurality of heat profiles of the data center corresponding to a plurality of power profiles that are outside of the training set of data, wherein each of the plurality of heat profiles of the data center identifies a thermal topology resulting from application of a particular thermal profile.