· Posted by Zak Homuth at 11:00 AM
Last week at the fourth Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, we held the first-ever OCP hardware hackathon. In just nine hours, a group of about 70 hackers generated seven really interesting hardware designs — all of which could now be turned into physical products that are ready to plug in and power up. Like…
· Posted by Sara Sigel at 10:53 AM
Sara Sigel from GrabCAD was walking around consulting with teams when the JBOD team said they were having issues finding CAD models of a mini-SAS connector. She knew this would be a perfect task for the GrabCAD community. This is her story: I posted a request with the drawings they had and asked for help.…
· Posted by Frank Frankovsky at 10:00 AM
It’s hard to believe that the Open Compute Project was founded just a little over 18 months ago. At our first Summit, in June 2011, we had 200 participants, one official member (Facebook), and exactly three technology contributions (all from Facebook). Today, as nearly 2,000 people converge on Santa Clara to kick off the fourth…
· Posted by John Kenevey at 23:11 PM
We’ve finalized the agenda for the fourth Open Compute Summit, starting next Wednesday, January 16, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. You can see the list of keynote speakers and read the rundown of executive sessions and technical tracks on the summit’s agenda page. See you next week in Santa Clara, California!
· Posted by Eric Wells at 20:11 PM
As more and more organizations evaluate and adopt technologies based on Open Compute Project designs, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that those solutions are reliable and operate in an expected manner. To help meet that need, we’re launching a new Compliance and Interoperability (C&I) project. The C&I project is the seventh official OCP working…