A computer system may receive a layout of a data center, the layout of the data center identifying physical locations of a plurality of server racks, electrical distribution feeds, and uninterruptible power supplies. The computer system may receive a fault domain configuration for the datacenter, the fault domain configuration identifying virtual locations of a plurality of logical fault domains for distributing one or more instances so that the instances are stored on independent physical hardware devices within a single availability fault domain. The computer system may determine the configuration for the data center by assigning the plurality of fault domains to a plurality of electrical zones, wherein each electrical zone provides a redundant electrical power supply across the plurality of logical fault domains in an event of a failure of one or more electrical distribution feeds. The computer system may display the configuration for the data center on a display.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for simulating a concrete mixture. One of the methods includes obtaining an optical characterization of physical particles, generating a multispherical approximation of the physical particles, the multispherical approximation having reduced dimensionality compared to the optical characterization, simulating an aggregate mixture by applying the multispherical approximation of the particles to a physics simulator to obtain a predicted performance of the proposed aggregate mixture, selectively altering the aggregate mixture based on a comparison with performance metrics and simulating the altered aggregate mixture until the predicted performance satisfies the performance metrics to obtain a final aggregate mixture, and outputting the final aggregate mixture.

Methods and systems are provided for generating an interactive simulation representing one or more assets based on one or more asset records. Based on information from asset records stored at a database system of a cloud-based computing system, an asset simulator module, executed at a cloud-based computing system, can generate one or more simulated representations of the assets. A simulator application executed at the cloud-based computing system can augment the simulated representations of the assets with (at least) additional information from the asset records stored in the database system, and generate a user interface that presents an interactive simulation of the assets. The user interface can include the simulated representations of the assets with the additional information from the asset records stored in the database system.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a recipe for a concrete mixture, comprising: obtaining an optical characterization of a set of particles; determining, based on the optical characterization, physical characteristics of the set of particles; generating a multispherical approximation of the set of particles; selecting, based on the physical characteristics of the set of particles and from a database of performance rules, performance rules applicable to the set of particles; predicting performance of a proposed recipe for a concrete mixture formed from the set of particles by: determining a wet flowability rating of the proposed recipe based on the selected performance rules; and determining a dry packing rating of the proposed recipe based on the multispherical approximation; iteratively altering the proposed recipe and predicting performance of the altered proposed recipe until the predicted performance satisfies performance criteria to obtain a final recipe; and outputting the final recipe.

A system for determining and displaying in a graphical user interface one or more of air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack comprises a processor configured to receive an input comprising airflow resistance parameters through the rack, an IT equipment airflow parameter, a heat-dissipation parameter, an external pressure, and an external temperature, to run the input through a flow-network solver that solves for airflow velocities through at least one face of the rack and a rack air outflow temperature based on the input, provide an output including the airflow velocities and the rack air outflow temperature, and generate, based on the output, a display in a graphical user interface of the system illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.

A server placement controller determines a placement location for a custom server based on infrastructure support system requirements of the custom server and based on infrastructure support system capacities at respective unoccupied slots of a server mounting structure of a data center. In some embodiments, a server placement controller may utilize a hierarchical optimization process to select a placement location for a custom server, wherein the selected placement location meets the requirements of the custom server while also optimizing use of one or more infrastructure support systems, such as power infrastructure support system, a networking infrastructure support system, a cooling infrastructure support system, or other infrastructure support systems of a data center.

Systems and methods for datacenter capacity planning are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive user input; and suggest a location for placement of a device in a selected rack of a datacenter based on the user input, where the suggested location takes into account at least one of: (a) device clustering, or (b) network port availability.

The present invention concerns a method and a tool for designing and validating a data flow system comprising a set of software and/or hardware actors (a.sub.i, a.sub.j) interconnected with each other by unidirectional communication channels (c.sub.i, c.sub.j), the tool comprising: —a modelling interface (11) configured to generate an instance of the system by specifying, in a formal manner, a real-time and reconfigurable data flow, the reconfiguration of the data flow being carried out dynamically by propagating reconfiguration data from one actor to another through the communication channels, —an analysis module (13) configured to prove a predetermined set of behavioral properties of the system by means of a static analysis of the instance, —a refinement interface (15) designed to allocate resources to the instance, thus establishing a configured instance, the allocation of resources being carried out in such a way that an implementation of the system complies with the configured instance, and —a conformity test module (17) configured to verify the conformity of the behaviour of an implementation of the system with respect to the configured instance.

Methods and systems are provided for generating an interactive simulation representing one or more assets based on one or more asset records. Based on information from asset records stored at a database system of a cloud-based computing system, an asset simulator module, executed at a cloud-based computing system, can generate one or more simulated representations of the assets. A simulator application executed at the cloud-based computing system can augment the simulated representations of the assets with (at least) additional information from the asset records stored in the database system, and generate a user interface that presents an interactive simulation of the assets. The user interface can include the simulated representations of the assets with the additional information from the asset records stored in the database system.

A system for determining and displaying in a graphical user interface one or more of air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack comprises a processor configured to receive an input comprising airflow resistance parameters through the rack, an IT equipment airflow parameter, a heat-dissipation parameter, an external pressure, and an external temperature, to run the input through a flow-network solver that solves for airflow velocities through at least one face of the rack and a rack air outflow temperature based on the input, provide an output including the airflow velocities and the rack air outflow temperature, and generate, based on the output, a display in a graphical user interface of the system illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.