US 11,812,588 B2
Managing airflow for computing devices
Harsh Patel, Stone Mountain, GA (US)
Assigned to Core Scientific Operating Company, Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Core Scientific, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/095,310.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/108,651, filed on Nov. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0142008 A1, May 5, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H05K 7/20 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20836 (2013.01) [G06F 1/20 (2013.01); H05K 7/20172 (2013.01); H05K 7/20736 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.