Adaptive Awarded Green Cloud Computing Patents 

Adaptive Computing today announced it has been awarded five patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office related to technologies that make cloud computing more energy efficient. This raises the company’s total number of patent grants to 31 and bolsters its private cloud portfolio as one of the richest in existence.

The patents apply to Adaptive Computing’s Moab software and cover multiple significant aspects in intelligent power management, including patented concepts of:

• Calendar-based power capping – Helps navigate power quotas by identifying optimal times to operate data-intensive simulations
• On-demand power management – Optimizes workload by properly allocating resources and powering off servers as needed
• Predictive placement – Employs power-aware policies to manage energy consumption within data centers more evenly and save on cooling costs

Adaptive Computing’s latest issued patents include:

• U.S. Patent 8,370,495 – On-demand compute environment
• U.S. Patent 8,370,898 – System and method for providing threshold-based access to compute resources
• U.S. Patent 8,413,155 – System and method for a self-optimizing reservation in time of compute resources
• U.S. Patent 8,418,186 – System and method of co-allocating a reservation spanning different compute resource types
• U.S. Patent 8,464,266 – System and method for enforcing future policies in a compute environment