CPC H05K 7/20836 (2013.01) [G06F 1/20 (2013.01); H05K 7/20172 (2013.01); H05K 7/20736 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method for managing airflow for a plurality of computing devices, the method comprising:
positioning the plurality of computing devices on one or more racks, wherein each of the computing devices on each of the racks comprises a cooling fan configured to generate an airflow through the computing devices from a cold aisle to a hot aisle;
connecting the computing devices via a network;
distributing computing workloads to the plurality of computing devices via the network;
performing work on the computing workloads on the plurality of computing devices;
periodically measuring a temperature; and
in response to the measured temperature being below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined amount of time, reversing the airflow in a subset of the computing devices;
wherein periodically measuring the temperature includes: measuring a cold aisle temperature of the cold aisle, and/or measuring an external air temperature of an environment surrounding a data center in which the plurality of computing devices are disposed.
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