US Patent 10956832 Training a data center hardware instance network

A method is provided to produce training data set for training an inference engine to predict events in a data center comprising: producing probe vectors corresponding to components of a data center, each probe vector including a sequence of data elements, one of the probe vectors indicating an event at a component and at a time of the event; and producing at a master device a set of training snapshots, wherein each training snapshot includes a subsequence of data elements that corresponds to a time increment that matches or that occurred not later than the indicated time of occurrence of the event.