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OCP Accelerator Module (OAM) specification defines an open-hardware compute accelerator module form factor and its interconnects.   Facebook, Microsoft and Baidu contributed the OAM design specification to the OCP community during 2019 OCP Global Summit. Following this contribution, the Open (...)

Today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) 2019 Global Summit, Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) announced a new collaboration with Facebook and Microsoft to define the OCP Accelerator Module (OAM) specification to increase the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators to benefit the development of (...)

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces that Mike Neil will serve on its Board of Directors. Mike replaces Bill Laing, who has served since 2014 when Microsoft joined the Board. The OCP Foundation would like to thank Bill for contributing his time and talents to the OCP Community. The (...)

Submer announces the launch of the new SmartPodX platform – the world’s first liquid immersion cooling system that conforms to standard 19-inch server formats and also to Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications for high-performance, supercomputing, and hyperscale infrastructures. Rese (...)

[San Jose, California, March 14, 2019] Huawei Technologies, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced plans to adopt Open Rack in its new public cloud datacenters worldwide. The move is designed to enhance the environmental sustainability of (...)

The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation has granted Switch Datacenters from Amsterdam, the Netherlands the prestigious OCP Ready™ status, which means that the Switch AMS1 site complies with all site requirements for a colocation service provider to be able serve OCP customers and their hardw (...)

On January 29th, Netronome and the Open Compute Project hosted a workshop at GLOBALFOUNDRIES headquarters in Silicon Valley to share the concept of creating an Open Domain-Specific Architecture targeted for System on a Chip (SoC) designs. Over 70 people attended from over 35 companies including Achr (...)

New Advanced Programmable Switches First to Unlock the Full Potential of P4 Open Networking expert STORDIS today announced the launch of two bare-metal switches powered by the fully (P4-) programmable Barefoot Tofino. An industry first, the STORDIS Advance Programmable Switches (APS) offer (...)

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced today that Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, has joined OCP as a Platinum member. OCP was initiated by Facebook in 2011 with a mission to apply the benefits of open source to hardware and rapidly incr (...)