H05K7/1498

Power control system for a modular server enclosure

Example implementations relate to a power control system for controlling transmission of power from one or more power supply devices to one or more loads of a modular server enclosure. The power control system includes an electronic fuse and a threshold control unit. The electronic fuse is connected between one or more loads and the one or more power supply devices of the modular server enclosure. The threshold control unit is connected to the electronic fuse and to the one or more power supply devices. The threshold control circuit dynamically adjusts a threshold current for the electronic fuse based on a power supply capacity of the one or more power supply devices. The electronic fuse controls the transmission of the power from the one or more power supply devices to the one or more loads based on threshold current and a load current drawn by the one or more loads.

Event-based generation of context-aware telemetry reports

Systems and methods utilize telemetry data to provide administrators with metric information related to a detected IHS (Information Handling System) event, such as an error condition, where the provided metric information is particularized to the context of the event. A remote access controller (RAC) of the IHS stores metric reports received from metric sources. The RAC receives an indication of the event that specifies a first IHS component as a source of the event and specifies a time associated with the event. The RAC identifies stored metric reports generated by the first component prior to the first time and identifies stored metric reports generated by components that are logically and/o physically related to the first component. The RAC generates an event report that includes the metric reports generated by the first component prior to the first time and the metric reports generated by components related to the first component.

Self-contained power and cooling domains

A method for providing for conditioning of a computer data center includes supplying a working fluid from a common fluid plane to a plurality of power/cooling units distributed across a data center facility in proximity to electronic equipment that is distributed across the data center facility; converting the working fluid into electric power and cooling capacity at each of the plurality of power/cooling units; and supplying the electric power to a common electric power plane serving a plurality of racks of the electronic equipment in the data center facility and being served by a plurality of the power/cooling units in the data center facility, wherein the common fluid plane serves at least 10 percent of the power/cooling units in the data center facility and the common electric power plane serves at most 5 percent of the electronic equipment in the data center facility.

Techniques to configure physical compute resources for workloads via circuit switching

Embodiments are generally directed apparatuses, methods, techniques and so forth to select two or more processing units of the plurality of processing units to process a workload, and configure a circuit switch to link the two or more processing units to process the workload, the two or more processing units each linked to each other via paths of communication and the circuit switch.

LATCH ASSEMBLY FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE
20170367212 · 2017-12-21 ·

A computing device is disclosed. The example computing device includes an enclosure that houses an electrical component. The example computing device also includes a latch assembly disposed on the enclosure, the latch assembly to facilitate coupling the enclosure to a rack. The latch assembly includes an antenna which is communicatively coupled to the electrical component.

VIRTUAL CHASSIS MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER
20170364375 · 2017-12-21 ·

A system for chassis management includes a plurality of motherboards of a chassis, a plurality of baseboard management controllers (BMCs), and at least one chassis level component. Each of the plurality of BMCs is associated with one of the plurality of motherboards. The plurality of BMCs are interconnected via a first communication bus. The plurality of BMCs and the at least one chassis level component are interconnected via a second communication bus. One BMC of the plurality of BMCs is configured to operate as a virtual chassis management controller (VCMC) for the chassis. The VCMC is configured to exchange data with other BMCs of the plurality of BMCs over the first communication bus and manage the at least one chassis level component over the second communication bus.

DATA CENTER AND EXPANSION METHOD

A data center and an expansion method are provided to avoid a phenomenon of dense cables during data center expansion. In the data center, a first power device is connected to a computing device by using a bus, and a plug-in node and an idle electrical connection end are pre-disposed on the bus. In this way, when expansion is required, a second power device for expansion is directly added to the idle electrical connection end, and the bus is disconnected by using the plug-in node. In this way, the first power device and the second power device for expansion respectively supply power to the computing device by using two parts of the disconnected bus. According to this mode, no additional cable is required during the data center expansion, but an existing cable is directly disconnected to support power supply of a power device for expansion.

MODULAR DATA CENTER WITH PASSIVELY-COOLED UTILITY MODULE

A data center may be organized into modules, wherein the modules are purchased pre-configured to provide certain functionality of an information handling system. The modules may include utility modules, information technology (IT) modules, and air handling unit (AHU) modules. The utility module may provide infrastructure for other modules, such as electrical power service infrastructure. The utility module may be passively cooled through openings to controlled environments in other modules. For example, the utility module may include openings for airflow to and from the warm air aisle and the cool air aisle of an information technology (IT) module that has an attached air handing unit (AHU) module. Space in the utility module may be cooled through airflow to and from the cooled IT module.

BREAK OUT MODULE SYSTEM

A server rack with a plurality of compute nodes is positioned in a facility that includes a spine and the server rack includes a middle of rack ((OR) switch located near the middle of the server rack, vertically speaking. The MOR switch includes a plurality of ports that are connected via passive cables to the compute nodes provided in the server rack. In an embodiment the passive cables are configured to function at 56 Gbps using non-return to zero (NRZ) encoding and each cable may he about of less than 1.5 meters long. An electrical to optical panel (EOP) can be positioned adjacent a top of the server rack and the EOP includes connections to the MOR switch and to the spine, thus the EOP helps connect the MOR switch to the spine. Connections between adjacent server racks can provide for additional compute bandwidth when needed.

SYSTEM OF CRITICAL DATACENTERS AND BEHIND-THE-METER FLEXIBLE DATACENTERS

Systems include one or more critical datacenter connected to behind-the-meter flexible datacenters. The critical datacenter is powered by grid power and not necessarily collocated with the flexboxes, which are powered “behind the meter.” When a computational operation to be performed at the critical datacenter is identified and determined that it can be performed at a lower cost at a flexible datacenter, the computational operation is instead routed to the flexible datacenters for performance The critical datacenter and flexible datacenters preferably shared a dedicated communication pathway to enable high-bandwidth, low-latency, secure data transmissions.