Heat abstractor and heat dissipating method thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of heat abstractor and heat dissipating method thereof, and be particularly related to a kind of heat abstractor and heat radiation power loss control method thereof of controlling power attenuation.
Background technology
In general, the computer installation of part can configure two power supply units and 4 motherboards.The rated voltage of supposing two power supply units is respectively 1100W, and the maximum consumption of power of every motherboard is about 350W, that is to say, the power consumption that 4 motherboards are worked is simultaneously about 350W × 4=1400W.The in the situation that of two power supply unit normal power supplies, (that is the electric weight that provides of power supply unit is 2200W), can provide normally working to 4 motherboards of enough electric weight.
But, the situation (that is power supply unit cannot provide power supply to use to motherboard) that power supply unit may break down or damage, only a surplus power supply unit can normal power supply to make computer installation.Now, computer installation is for example, by starting power supply throttling function (power throttling feature) and reduce the power consumption (reducing the frequency of operation of the central processing unit of motherboard) of motherboard, so that motherboard can maintain normal work.But the frequency of operation of enabling power supply throttling function and reduce the central processing unit of motherboard, will cause the performance of computer installation to reduce.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides a kind of heat abstractor and heat dissipating method thereof, the power attenuation of control system more accurately, avoids unnecessary power supply waste.
The present invention proposes a kind of heat abstractor, is applicable to a main frame, and this main frame comprises a power-supply unit.Heat abstractor comprises at least one fan, a temperature measurement unit, a fan control unit and a power attenuation control module.Wherein, temperature measurement unit is measured the temperature of main frame inside.Fan control unit couples fan, in order to control the rotating speed of fan.Power attenuation control module, couple the power-supply unit of power-supply unit, temperature measurement unit, fan control unit and main frame, in order to the total power consumption of computation host, and control signal to fan control unit, to adjust the rotating speed of fan according to the temperature of main frame inside and the total power consumption of main frame output one.
In one embodiment of this invention, above-mentioned power attenuation control module is not in the time that the total power consumption of main frame exceeds critical total power consumption, adjust the rotating speed of fan according to the temperature of main frame inside, and in the time that the total power consumption of main frame exceeds a critical total power consumption, control the rotating speed that fan control unit reduces fan, so that the total power consumption of main frame is reduced to critical total power consumption.
In one embodiment of this invention, above-mentioned heat abstractor, more comprise a storage element, it couples power attenuation control module, in order to store the temperature and the responsibility cycle table of comparisons of controlling signal of main frame inside, and the power consumption table of comparisons of the rotating speed of fan and fan, power attenuation control module is adjusted the rotating speed of fan according to the responsibility cycle table of comparisons and power consumption table of comparisons control fan control unit.
In one embodiment of this invention, the responsibility cycle of above-mentioned control signal is proportional to the temperature of main frame inside.
In one embodiment of this invention, between above-mentioned power attenuation control module and power-supply unit, carry out signal transmission for seeing through power management bus.
The present invention also proposes a kind of heat dissipating method of heat abstractor, and wherein heat abstractor is applicable to a main frame, and heat abstractor comprises at least one fan.Heat dissipating method comprises the following steps: to measure the temperature of main frame inside; The total power consumption of computation host; And adjust the rotating speed of fan according to the temperature of main frame inside and the total power consumption of main frame.
In one embodiment of this invention, the step of the rotating speed of above-mentioned adjustment fan comprises the following steps: whether the total power consumption that judges main frame exceeds a critical total power consumption; If the total power consumption of main frame does not exceed critical total power consumption, adjust the rotating speed of fan according to the temperature of main frame inside; And if the total power consumption of main frame exceeds critical total power consumption, reduce the rotating speed of fan, so that the total power consumption of main frame is reduced to critical total power consumption.
In one embodiment of this invention, above-mentioned critical total power consumption is main frame required minimum total power consumption under system stability state.
Based on above-mentioned, the present invention sees through according to the temperature of main frame inside and the total power consumption of main frame and adjusts the rotating speed of fan, and then the power attenuation of control system accurately, avoids unnecessary power supply waste.
For above-mentioned feature and advantage of the present invention can be become apparent, special embodiment below, and coordinate accompanying drawing to be described in detail below.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the heat abstractor of one embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 2 is the heat dissipating method process flow diagram of the heat abstractor of one embodiment of the invention.
Primary clustering symbol description:
100: heat abstractor
102: fan
104: temperature measurement unit
106: fan control unit
108: storage element
110: power attenuation control module
PSU: power-supply unit
SC1: control signal
S202~S212: the process step of heat dissipating method
Embodiment
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the heat abstractor of one embodiment of the invention.Please refer to Fig. 1, heat abstractor 100 is applicable to the main frame of server or computer system, heat abstractor 100 comprises at least one fan 102 (being in the present embodiment two, so not as limit), a temperature measurement unit 104, a fan control unit 106, a storage element 108 and a power attenuation control module 110.Its fan 102 couples fan control unit 106, and power attenuation control module 110 couples the power supply unit PSU of temperature measurement unit 104, fan control unit 106, storage element 108 and main frame.Wherein between power attenuation control module 110 and power supply unit PSU, carry out signal transmission for seeing through power management bus.
On the configurable air outlet in mainframe box of above-mentioned fan 102 or motherboard easily (for example, on central processor core) on overheated assembly.Fan control unit 106 is in order to control the rotating speed of fan 102, generally speaking, fan control unit 106 is for utilizing pulse width modulation signal to control, in the time that the responsibility cycle of pulse width modulation signal is larger, the rotating speed of fan is faster, and the power that relatively consumed is also higher.104 of temperature measurement units are in order to measure the temperature of main frame inside.
In addition, the electric energy that power attenuation control module 110 can provide according to power supply unit PSU carrys out the total power consumption of computation host, and send a control signal SC1 to fan 102 according to the total power consumption of main frame and the measured main frame internal temperature of temperature measurement unit 104, to determine that rotating speed how to control fan 102 adjusts the power attenuation of main frame, wherein controlling signal SC1 is a pulse width modulation signal.
For instance, in the time that power attenuation control module 110 judges that the total power consumption of main frame does not exceed default critical total power consumption, power attenuation control module 110 adjusts according to the internal temperature of main frame and the power attenuation of CPU (central processing unit) the responsibility cycle of controlling signal SC1 simultaneously.Wherein the critical total power consumption of indication is main frame required minimum total power consumption under system stability state herein.
The responsibility cycle table of comparisons of the internal temperature of main frame, the power attenuation of CPU (central processing unit) and corresponding control signal SC1 is as follows shown in list 1:
|
Internal temperature: 10 ℃ |
Internal temperature: 15 ℃ |
Cpu power (W) |
SC1 responsibility cycle (%) |
SC1 responsibility cycle (%) |
39 |
12 |
17 |
44 |
23 |
27 |
51 |
34 |
38 |
57 |
44 |
52 |
70 |
100 |
100 |
Table 1
As seen from Table 1, when main frame internal temperature is higher, CPU (central processing unit) power consumption is when larger, the radiating effect of main frame must be better, and the responsibility cycle of therefore controlling signal SC1 is larger, the rotating speed of fan 102 is increased, as quickly as possible heat energy is excluded.It should be noted that the cited main frame internal temperature of table 1, the CPU (central processing unit) power consumption responsibility cycle value corresponding with it are only an exemplary embodiment, in practical application not as limit.
In addition, in the time that power attenuation control module 110 judges that the total power consumption of main frame exceeds default critical total power consumption, power attenuation control module 110 is by reduce the rotating speed of fan 102 according to fan 102 corresponding power consumption under different rotating speeds, so that the total power consumption of main frame is reduced to critical total power consumption.The rotating speed of fan 102 and the power consumption table of comparisons are as follows shown in list 2:
SC1 responsibility cycle (%) |
Fan power (W) |
Rotation speed of the fan (RPM) |
20 |
9 |
3720 |
40 |
27 |
6240 |
60 |
63 |
8760 |
80 |
127 |
11280 |
100 |
199 |
13800 |
Table 2
As shown in table 2, when controlling the responsibility cycle of signal SC1 when larger, the power consumption of fan and rotating speed are just larger, because the total power consumption of main frame is the totalling of the power consumption of motherboard, hard disk drive, fan etc. assembly, therefore the rotating speed (that is reducing the responsibility cycle of controlling signal SC1) that reduces fan 102 just can reduce the consumption of fan 102, and then reduces the total power consumption of main frame.Power attenuation control module 110 can be selected suitable rotation speed of the fan according to calculated main frame total power consumption, so that main frame total power consumption is reduced to critical total power consumption.Rotating speed and the power consumption table of comparisons that it should be noted that the cited fan of table 2 102 are only an exemplary embodiment, in practical application not as limit.In addition, the above-mentioned responsibility cycle table of comparisons and the power consumption table of comparisons can be stored in storage element 108, adjust according to this rotating speed of fan 102 for power attenuation control module 110 in the time that main frame total power consumption is too high.
Fig. 2 is the heat dissipating method process flow diagram of the heat abstractor of one embodiment of the invention, please refer to Fig. 2.First the heat dissipating method of concluding above-mentioned heat abstractor can comprise the following steps:, measures the temperature (step S202) of main frame inside.Then, the total power consumption of computation host (step S204), wherein the general power of main frame comprises the power consumption of motherboard, hard disk drive, fan etc. assembly.Then, adjust the rotating speed (step S206) of fan according to the temperature of main frame inside and the total power consumption of main frame.Furthermore, the step S206 of the rotating speed of adjustment fan comprises whether the total power consumption that first judges main frame exceeds a critical total power consumption (step S208).Wherein critical total power consumption is main frame required minimum total power consumption under system stability state.If the total power consumption of main frame does not exceed default critical total power consumption, adjust the rotating speed (step S210) of fan according to the internal temperature of main frame, and get back to step S202 and continue the temperature of measurement main frame inside.If the total power consumption of main frame exceeds default critical total power consumption, reduce the rotating speed of fan, the total power consumption of main frame is reduced to critical total power consumption (step S212).
In sum, the present invention adjusts the rotating speed of fan according to the temperature of main frame inside and the total power consumption of main frame, in the time that exceeding default critical total power consumption, reduces the total power consumption of main frame the rotating speed of fan, so that main frame total power consumption is reduced to critical total power consumption, and then the power attenuation of control system accurately, avoid unnecessary power supply waste.
Although the present invention discloses as above with embodiment, so it is not in order to limit the present invention, and the those of ordinary skill in any affiliated technical field, when doing a little change and retouching, and does not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.