Immersion Cooling Tank Board Hierarchy for Balanced Power Management
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
The existing immersion cooling systems face challenges in balancing power distribution across an entire tank and managing the complexity of out-of-band management processes.
Innovation Solution
The method involves a management board configuration with master and slave boards, where each management board has at least two terminals for communication. The boards determine their roles based on signal levels, with the master board managing slave boards to balance power distribution and simplify out-of-band management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If each power shelf has a separate power management controller with individual transmission to remote management platform, then monitoring capability is improved, but power distribution balance deteriorates and management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple management boards are merged into a hierarchical structure where one master management board consolidates monitoring data from multiple slave management boards. This reduces the number of independent transmission paths to the remote management platform, balancing power distribution while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The master management board acts as an intermediary between slave management boards and the remote management platform. It collects data from slaves, performs centralized processing, and transmits consolidated information remotely, thereby simplifying the overall management architecture.
2Measurement precision
If multiple independent management boards are used for monitoring, then monitoring coverage is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is segmented into hierarchical levels: slave management boards handle local monitoring tasks individually, while a master management board coordinates them. This segmentation allows comprehensive coverage without requiring fully independent operation of each board, thus reducing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Each management board is designed with multi-functionality to operate in different roles (master or slave) within the same system architecture. This universality allows flexible configuration and reduces the need for specialized hardware variants, simplifying the overall system.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for managing a management board of an immersion cooling tank detects a signal of each of the first terminals of the management board. The method determines a first number of levels of the detected signals being high and a second number of the levels of the detected signals being low. The method further determines whether the management board is the master management board or is the slave management board according to the first number and the second number. The management board is determined to be the master management board if the levels of all of the detected signals are low. A related management board of an immersion cooling tank and a non-transitory storage medium are also provided.