· Posted by Jay Hauser at 09:27 AM
By Frank Frankovsky - Chairman/President, Open Compute Project A little more than a month ago, the Open Compute Project celebrated its two-year anniversary. When Facebook first launched the project, it was our hope that we could spark more conversation and more collaboration around the development of efficient data center technologies. The OCP community has since grown to 50+ official members…
· Posted by Lyrica McTiernan at 09:10 AM
Today Facebook launched two public dashboards that report continuous, near-real-time data for key efficiency metrics – specifically, PUE and WUE – for our data centers in Prineville, OR and Forest City, NC. These dashboards include both a granular look at the past 24 hours of data and a historical view of the past year’s values.…
· Posted by Cole Crawford at 19:02 PM
Wow! I can honestly say that 2 years ago I never thought I’d have the privilege of announcing the Open Compute Project’s second anniversary. It’s been an incredibly productive two years. We’ve done astounding things and we’re just getting started. In the past year, the Foundation has: Hired its first FTE (me) Initiated a new…
· Posted by Cole Crawford at 14:13 PM
The Open Compute Project is hosting its first international event in Hong Kong March 5th and 6th. Please join us for the event as we discuss the project in depth with the APAC community. We will focus specifically on the market conditions and unique position OCP can play in the Chinese and Japanese ecosystem. Registration…
· 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…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 00:13 AM
The next Open Compute Summit is less than 4 weeks away! Here are a few things you need to know before the summit starts on Jan. 16: We’re finalizing the agenda now and will have a great lineup of keynote speakers, executive sessions, and technical tracks. Tim O’Reilly will deliver one of the keynote addresses;…