Abstract: A system may include a first point of deployment (POD) and a second POD at a data center, where each of the first POD and the second POD may be configured to support a first version of a platform template. The first POD may a first set of servers based on a first hardware platform and the second POD may include a second set of servers based on a second hardware platform. A configuration manager may be configured to determine a difference between the first hardware platform and the second hardware platform and generate a second version of the platform template based on the difference between the first hardware platform associated and the second hardware platform. In some cases, the second version of the platform template may be installed on the second POD as part of an upgrade process.

Abstract: A system may include an active first point of deployment (POD) configured to provide a specified business functionality and may include a first server and a first instance of a platform to provide the specified business function. A dark second POD may be configured to include a second server and a second instance of the platform template, where the first platform template instance comprises a different version than the second platform template instance. A POD management computing device may test an operation of the second POD in parallel with the operation of the first POD. The POD management computing device may upgrade the business functionality by deactivating the first POD and activating the second POD to provide the specified business function using the second instance of the platform template.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for managing open shares in an enterprise computing environment are presented. In some embodiments, a computer system may receive a request to scan one or more servers for open shares. Then, the computer system may validate one or more input files associated with the request and verify access to the one or more servers. Next, the computer system may scan the one or more servers to create a runtime share list file identifying one or more open shares. Subsequently, the computer system may identify at least one open share to be remediated and may apply one or more remediation actions to the at least one open share. Thereafter, the computer system may update an output file to include remediation information identifying the one or more remediation actions applied to the at least one open share and may send the output file.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for managing open shares in an enterprise computing environment are presented. In some embodiments, a computer system may receive a request to scan one or more servers for open shares. Then, the computer system may validate one or more input files associated with the request and verify access to the one or more servers. Next, the computer system may scan the one or more servers to create a runtime share list file identifying one or more open shares. Subsequently, the computer system may identify at least one open share to be remediated and may apply one or more remediation actions to the at least one open share. Thereafter, the computer system may update an output file to include remediation information identifying the one or more remediation actions applied to the at least one open share and may send the output file.

Abstract: A system may include an active first point of deployment (POD) configured to provide a specified business functionality and may include a first server and a first instance of a platform to provide the specified business function. A dark second POD may be configured to include a second server and a second instance of the platform template, where the first platform template instance comprises a different version than the second platform template instance. A POD management computing device may test an operation of the second POD in parallel with the operation of the first POD. The POD management computing device may upgrade the business functionality by deactivating the first POD and activating the second POD to provide the specified business function using the second instance of the platform template.

Abstract: A system may include a first point of deployment (POD) and a second POD at a data center, where each of the first POD and the second POD may be configured to support a first version of a platform template. The first POD may a first set of servers based on a first hardware platform and the second POD may include a second set of servers based on a second hardware platform. A configuration manager may be configured to determine a difference between the first hardware platform and the second hardware platform and generate a second version of the platform template based on the difference between the first hardware platform associated and the second hardware platform.

Abstract: A system associated with a data center may include an active first point of deployment (POD) configured to provide a business functionality to users communicating via a network based on a first version of a platform template, a dark second POD configured with a different second version of the platform template and a switching tool to manage communication to and from the first POD and the second POD. The switching tool may send a received message the message to the destination based, at least in part, on the source of the received message, where the switching tool may send messages received from user devices to the first data center and may send messages received from testing devices to the second data center. The switching tool may, in response to a switching command, switch operation of the business functionality from the first POD to the second POD.

Abstract: A system and method for vehicle-centric infrastructure monitoring system includes an inspection system mountable on a vehicle configured to travel over an expanse of rail track having a plurality of track blocks. The inspection system acquires track data for at least some track blocks along the expanse of rail track. The monitoring system also includes a positioning system to determine a location of the vehicle and generate location data indicative of an associated track block location, a communications device to transmit the track/location data to a remote location, and a centralized computing system positioned at the remote location to receive the transmitted track/location data. The centralized computing system is programmed to determine a current probability of a track condition for a track block and combine the current track condition probability with a previously determined cumulative track condition probability to provide an updated track condition probability for the track block.

Abstract: An Active Combustion Control System and method provides for monitoring combustor pressure and modulating fuel to a gas turbine combustor to prevent combustion dynamics and/or flame extinguishments. The system includes an actuator, wherein the actuator periodically injects pulsed fuel into the combustor. The apparatus also includes a sensor connected to the combustion chamber down stream from an inlet, where the sensor generates a signal detecting the pressure oscillations in the combustor. The apparatus controls the actuator in response to the sensor. The apparatus prompts the actuator to periodically inject pulsed fuel into the combustor at a predetermined sympathetic frequency and magnitude, thereby controlling the amplitude of the pressure oscillations in the combustor by modulating the natural oscillations.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for controlling power in renewable solar energy sources. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for controlling a renewable energy solar farm, where the farm may include one or more renewable energy sources. The method may include measuring aggregate energy output of the renewable energy solar farm and measuring individual source energy output of the one or more renewable energy sources. The method may also include controlling energy production from the one or more renewable energy sources via a controller based at least in part on the measured aggregate energy output and the measured individual source energy output, where the controller facilitates communications with the one or more renewable energy sources.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for controlling power in renewable solar energy sources. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for controlling a renewable energy solar farm, where the farm may include one or more renewable energy sources. The method may include measuring aggregate energy output of the renewable energy solar farm and measuring individual source energy output of the one or more renewable energy sources. The method may also include controlling energy production from the one or more renewable energy sources via a controller based at least in part on the measured aggregate energy output and the measured individual source energy output, where the controller facilitates communications with the one or more renewable energy sources.

Abstract: A system and method for vehicle-centric infrastructure monitoring system includes an inspection system mountable on a vehicle configured to travel over an expanse of rail track having a plurality of track blocks. The inspection system acquires track data for at least some track blocks along the expanse of rail track. The monitoring system also includes a positioning system to determine a location of the vehicle and generate location data indicative of an associated track block location, a communications device to transmit the track/location data to a remote location, and a centralized computing system positioned at the remote location to receive the transmitted track/location data. The centralized computing system is programmed to determine a current probability of a track condition for a track block and combine the current track condition probability with a previously determined cumulative track condition probability to provide an updated track condition probability for the track block.

Abstract: An Active Combustion Control System and method provides for monitoring combustor pressure and modulating fuel to a gas turbine combustor to prevent combustion dynamics and/or flame extinguishments. The system includes an actuator, wherein the actuator periodically injects pulsed fuel into the combustor. The apparatus also includes a sensor connected to the combustion chamber down stream from an inlet, where the sensor generates a signal detecting the pressure oscillations in the combustor. Lastly, the apparatus includes means for controlling the actuator in response to the sensor. The means for controlling prompts the actuator to periodically inject pulsed fuel into the combustor at a predetermined sympathetic frequency and magnitude, thereby controlling the amplitude of the pressure oscillations in the combustor by modulating the natural oscillations.

Abstract: A gas turbine system is provided. The system includes a gas turbine engine including at least one combustor can, at least one of a combustor dynamics pressure sensor and flame sensor coupled to at least one of the combustor cans, the sensor configured to monitor combustion in each respective can and transmit a signal indicative of combustion in each respective can, and at least one control system configured to receive the signal from said at least one sensor. The control system is programmed to filter the combustion signal to determine the presence of a lean blowout (LBO) precursor, determine a probability of LBO from the filtered signal, and control the gas turbine system to facilitate reducing the probability of LBO.

Abstract: A system for ranking combustion chambers in a gas turbine in order of chamber combustion temperature including: at least one fuel nozzle supplying fuel to the combustion chambers at a predetermined fuel rate abnormally near a lean blow out (LBO) condition of the chambers; at least one dynamic pressure sensor in each chamber sensing combustion dynamic pressures in said combustion chambers and generating dynamic pressure signals representative of the dynamic pressure in each of said combustion chambers, wherein the dynamic pressure signals provide information regarding the dynamic pressure at a plurality of frequencies; a signal band pass filter segmenting the signals into a plurality of predefined frequency bands comprising a lean blow out (LBO) precursor frequency band, a cold tone frequency band and a hot tone frequency band; a processor determining a value for each chamber representative of amplitudes of the signals in each of LBO precursor frequency band, the cold tone frequency band and the hot tone frequ

Abstract: A system for measuring clearance between a stationary object and a movable object is provided. The system includes at least one sensor configured to be disposed on the stationary object and configured to measure an operating parameter corresponding to the movable object and a controller coupled to the at least one sensor, wherein the controller is configured to control an operating mode of the sensor based upon the measured operating parameter.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate methods to control a desalination system comprising evaluating physical models sufficient to identify physical constraints, evaluating economic models and wherein evaluating the physical and economic models provides a preliminary configuration for the desalination system to reduce the cost of water and provide operating strategies.

Abstract: A clearance sensing system for a rotating machine includes a plurality of sensor probes disposed within a stationary shroud of the rotating machine. Each of the plurality of sensor probes is adapted to measure a parameter indicative of an axial and a radial displacement of a rotating component within the shroud and to produce a signal that corresponds to the parameter. In certain embodiments, this parameter may include a capacitance between the rotating component and the sensor probe. The clearance sensing system further includes a circuit that receives the signal from each of the plurality of sensor probes and determines (a) the axial displacement of the rotating component within the shroud and (b) a radial displacement of the rotating component relative to the shroud.

Abstract: A method for monitoring performance of a gas turbine system comprises providing a plurality of combustor cans; placing a plurality of temperature sensors circumferentially around an exhaust plane of the plurality of combustor cans; operating the plurality of combustor cans while varying a plurality of gas turbine operating parameters, where exhaust gas issues from each combustor can of the plurality of combustor cans during operation; measuring temperature of the exhaust gas in the exhaust plane using the plurality of temperature sensors to obtain a plurality of individual temperature measurements; determining a correlation of the individual temperature measurements of exhaust gas temperature with corresponding individual combustor cans of the plurality of combustor cans issuing the exhaust gas; and developing a swirl model, where the model uses the correlation to predict swirl values in the exhaust plane as a function of the operating parameters.

Abstract: A system for measuring clearance between a first object and a second object is provided. The system includes a sensor configuration to generate a first signal representative of a first sensed parameter and a second signal representative of a second sensed parameter. The system also includes a clearance measurement unit configured to process the first and second signals based upon a ratiometric technique to calculate clearance between the first and second objects.