Register Today! Registration for the OCP Engineering Workshop which will take place at UTSA in San Antonio, Texas on November 13 is now open! Please email Amber Graner for the password and then register here. This workshop will be held at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). This workshop (...)
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Registration Opens for the OCP Engineering Workshop - Seoul Korea
Registration is now open for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Engineering Workshop Seoul Korea which will take place from 8am to 6pm at the Ritz Carlton Seoul on November 14, 2013. To register for this event, visit https://ocp-eng-sk.eventbrite.com/. The event is password protected; to get the passwor (...)
OCP Summit V
We are pleased to announce the dates for the next Open Compute Project Summit on Tuesday, January 28 and Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at the newly expanded San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. At the last summit, attendees came from the technology sector in addition to finance, government, and (...)
OCP Engineering Workshop at LinuxCon Europe - Registration Open
REVISED SCHEDULE 21 Oct 2013 UPDATED 17 Oct 2013 - Schedule UPDATED 15 Oct 2013 - Dates Registration for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Engineering Workshop which will be co-located with LinuxCon Europe will take place on Monday 21 October 2013 is now open! To register for this event, visit https:// (...)
An expanded role for Cole Crawford
I have some exciting news to share: On behalf of my fellow board members, I'm pleased to announce that Cole Crawford has been promoted to executive director of the Open Compute Foundation. Colejoined us a little less than a year agoas the foundation's first full-time employee. Since then, many of yo (...)
Facebook's perspective on serviceability and operational efficiency
UPDATED - Webinar on October 24, 2013 By Charlie Manese, Facebook Hardware Design team At Facebook, because of our scale, we require that solutions deployed in our data center be engineered for maximum operational efficiency and serviceability. The data center team works closely with the hardware de (...)
Amber Graner joins the foundation as community manager
The Open Compute Foundation is excited to welcome Amber Graner, who has joined the foundation as its community manager.Amber began her personal journey into open source in 2009, when she began blogging about her experiences with Ubuntu, filing bugs, organizing and speaking at various Linux events, a (...)
OCP Engineering Workshop In Shanghai - September 15
The next OCP Engineering Workshop is in Shanghai on September 15! This workshop will be a half day session in conjunction with the Cloud Connect conference. We will have a general session address from Cole Crawford, COO of the Open Compute Project, and will focus on the OCP APAC charter and communit (...)
Engineering Workshop in New York - October 1
UPDATEDRegistration for the OCP Engineering Workshop in the New York area on October 1 is now open!To register for this event, visit https://ocp-eng-ny.eventbrite.com. The event is password protected; to get the password, please contact me at charliem@fb.com.This workshop will be held at the Goldman (...)
Open Rack 1.0 Specification Available Now
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 d (...)