· 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;…
· Posted by John Kenevey at 16:07 PM
OCP is hosting its first hardware hackathon at the upcoming Open Compute Summit, January 16-17, 2013 in Santa Clara, California. Starting today, you can register for the hack. We are limiting attendance to 100 people. Registering for the hack also registers you for the entire OCP summit, so you can register for both events at…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 17:27 PM
The Open Compute Foundation is excited to welcome Cole Crawford, who has joined the foundation as its chief operating officer. Cole is an industry-recognized leader on cloud and scale computing, and he has been involved with open source since 1992, working for OpenStack and Nebula and advising the Linux Foundation. One of his first tasks…
· Posted by Daniel Lee at 11:00 AM
Building a data center based on Open Compute Project designs in a relatively hot and humid area like Forest City, North Carolina, presented some interesting challenges. Chief among them, of course, was whether the 100% outdoor air cooling system Facebook debuted in our Prineville, Oregon, facility could operate as efficiently in an environment where the…
· Posted by John Kenevey at 16:59 PM
The academic community has long been a model for open collaboration and for innovation in sustainable technologies, and that’s something we’re hoping to tap into as the Open Compute Project evolves. With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce a design challenge with Purdue University’s College of Technology entrepreneurship program, Tech Ventures, to develop a…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 14:59 PM
We’re excited to announce that we’ve opened registration for the fourth Open Compute Summit, to be held January 16-17, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The Open Compute Project is just over one year old, and the community keeps growing, as do the summits. The 2012 summit in San Antonio,…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 21:02 PM
Most companies lease space in data centers instead of building their own; this isn’t news to anyone in this space. But what might be news is that leasing space isn’t a barrier to deploying highly efficient Open Compute Project servers. In fact, there are two ways you can use OCP hardware in a co-lo: Deploy…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 21:56 PM
We’ve just released the v1.0 Open Rack specification. The new specification documents the evolution of the Open Rack over the last few months since the 0.5 version was published: • Exclusive focus on a single column rack design. • Higher inlet temperature of 35°C, which reflects other Open Compute designs and real-world data center temperatures.…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 19:00 PM
The Open Rack is the first rack standard that is designed for data centers, one that integrates the rack directly into data center infrastructure. Today we released a design guide for Open Rack. This guide provides specifications and guidelines to show suppliers of IT equipment how they can build systems compatible with the Open Rack.…