Telemetry systems for monitoring cooling of compute components and related apparatus and methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to generate a heatmap based on outputs of one or more sensors in an environment, the environment including a first compute device, the sensor outputs including a metric associated with a property of a coolant and a location of the sensor in the environment, identify a compute performance metric of the first compute device, determine a cooling parameter for the first compute device based on the heatmap and the compute performance metric, and cause a cooling distribution unit to control flow of the coolant in the environment based on the cooling parameter.

A communication module may be used in an information handling system comprising an air mover configured to drive a flow of air and a processing component communicatively coupled to the air mover for controlling operation of the air mover via a first wire configured to communicate air mover speed commands from the processing component to the air mover for controlling a speed of the air mover and a second wire configured to communicate tachometer information from the air mover to the processing component. The communication module may include a connector other than an air mover connector configured to couple the air mover to the first and second wire and logic configured to monitor for an escape sequence communicated via first wire from the processing component to enter a command mode and responsive to detecting the escape sequence, communicating information regarding the air mover to the processing component via second wire.

A gateway device and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, multiple wireless transceivers are located within an in-wall housing, which also interconnectedly includes a processor, memory, various physical ports and wireless transceivers. To improve convenience, the gateway device may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device. Virtual remote control functionality for various amenities may then be provided. To improve safety, the gateway device may be incorporated into a geolocation and safety network.

An electronic rack includes an array of server blades arranged in a stack. Each server blade contains one or more servers and each server includes one or more processors to provide data processing services. The electronic rack includes a coolant distribution unit (CDU) and a rack management unit (RMU). The CDU supplies cooling liquid to the processors and receives the cooling liquid carrying heat from the processors. The CDU includes a liquid pump to pump the cooling liquid. The RMU is configured to manage the operations of the components within the electronic rack such as CDU, etc. The RMU includes control logic to determine an optimal pump speed to minimize the total power consumption of the pump, acceleration servers and the host servers, based on the one or more parameters and the association between temperature and power consumption of the acceleration servers and the host servers. The RMU then controls the liquid pump based on the optimal pump speed.

A method may include providing a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal to a microcontroller unit (MCU) included at a cooling fan. The method may further include receiving information from the MCU identifying a duty cycle of a second PWM signal generated by the MCU, the duty cycle of the second PWM signal determined by the MCU based on a duty cycle of the first PWM signal and based on a tachometer signal received from a rotor included at the cooling fan. The present current consumption of the cooling fan may be determined based on the duty cycle of the second PWM signal.

Techniques described herein relate to methods and systems for thermal management of a thermal environment. The method may include using thermal data items from computing devices and time series analysis to predict future thermal values for the thermal data items; performing a clustering analysis using the predicted future thermal values to assign cluster labels to the computing devices; using the cluster labels and the predicted future thermal values to assign predicted thermal status labels to the computing devices; assigning a confidence value to the predicted thermal status labels and ranking the computing devices based on the confidence values; performing an analysis to determine a thermal data item contributing to the assigned thermal status; and sending the results to a thermal environment administrator.

A processing device executes a climate control system to protect its hardware elements from damage due to adverse environmental conditions. The processing device executes logic for self-determining a device-internal environmental condition and for initiating a workload on the processing device responsive to determining that the device-internal environmental condition satisfies predefined criteria indicative of a hardware safety risk.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for a systems and methods for improved LIDAR return light capture efficiency. One example method may include comparing, by a controller including a processor and at a first time, a first temperature of a first computing element to a first threshold temperature and a second temperature of a second computing element to a second threshold temperature. The example method may also include sending, based on a determination that the first temperature is below the first threshold temperature and the second temperature is above the second threshold temperature, a first signal to a switch to activate a data output corresponding to the second computing element. The example method may also include sending, to the second computing element, a second signal to cause a third computing element to increase heat dissipation from the third computing element to the first computing element. The example method may also include receiving, from the first computing element, a third temperature of the first computing element at a second time. The example method may also include comparing the third temperature of the first computing element to the first threshold temperature. The example method may also include determining that the third temperature of the first computing element is at or above the first threshold temperature at the second time. The example method may also include sending, based on a determination that that the third temperature is at or above the first threshold temperature, a third signal to the switch to activate a data output corresponding to the first computing element.

A computing device of an information handling system includes an environmental control component and a chassis environmental manager. The chassis environmental manager obtains a temperature of an environment proximate to a component of the information handling system; obtains a humidity level of the proximate environment; obtains, based on the temperature and the humidity level, a corrosion rate of the component; makes a determination that the corrosion rate indicates a premature failure of the component based on a service life of the component; and in response to the determination: obtains an environmental control modification that mitigates the premature failure; and updates an operation of the environmental control component based on the environmental control modification.

A cooling system for a datacenter is disclosed. The datacenter cooling system includes one or more flow controllers within a rack manifold, a server manifold, or server tray to facilitate movement of a coolant associated with a secondary cooling loop to cool a component within a server in response to the component monitoring its internal temperature.