Thermal Management and Load Control of Container Data Center: A Case Study of Cloud Computing in a Rack

The paper proposes an inspection system and method to automatically monitor the thermal distribution of a data center then to control the load. An operation system with multi modules is built to systematically diagnose the energy usage as well as the temperature in the data center as so to improve the performance. The system consists of a sensor, control and warning units, in which the first unit aims to distinguish the non-visible light from visible light, the second focuses on determining whether the temperature of thermal distribution is larger than or equal to the safety threshold and the third unit alarms according to the judgment result of control unit. Several experiments are provided to examine the application of the system. The results show that the performance of the system in response time and sensitivity is better than those of traditional inspection method.