Upcoming Events

The Open Domain-Specific Architecture is a subproject in the Open Compute Project that aims to develop an open marketplace for chiplets. The ODSA has developed a hardware platform to help system designers explore chiplet-based architectures for accelerators. The hardware platform currently integrates hardware and engineering support from Broadcom, Cisco, Facebook, Lattice, NXP, Samsung, Tamind, 3M, MACOM, Molex, Amphenol, Astera labs, Silitronics and will be hosted at Supermicro.
The next step in the development of the PoC is to explore an accelerator for a specific use case. The ODSA PoC effort aims to develop an accelerator for storage applications. Specifically, we propose to develop an accelerator for computational offload with object stores aimed at TCO reduction. When implemented as an integrated product, the accelerator will improve query performance and storage density.
The ODSA PoC workstream will hold a workshop on accelerator architectures for storage applications. This workshop is expected to be the first in a series of architecture workshops on domain-specific architectures.

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Joey Arato (Facebook) speaking on behalf of OCP.
Session: Securing critical data centre systems

The Industrial Control Systems (ICS) including Cooling and Building Management Systems (BMS), Power Monitoring Systems (PMS), and Electrical Protection and Control Systems (EPC) that run our data centres are frequently designed around availability rather than security. These systems can lack the security fundamentals, such as modern communication, authentication and authorisation mechanisms that should be expected in critical equipment attached to a network. So how do we drive a marked increase in the security of these systems and environments? In this panel discussion, we showcase how combining efforts as an industry, we can drive significant improvements. We explore the initiatives spearheaded by the Open Compute Project and key industry partners to define:

• What a baseline physical security standard looks like for a data centre
• What types of communications standards and protocols enables secure communication for these systems
• How to best monitor equipment for security issues

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Contact: dirkv@opencompute.org

OCP Sessions:

"Case Study: Hybrid Cooling Data Centers Challenges and Lessons Learned"
Presenter: Don Mitchell
"Vendor Neutrality and Open Source: Optimizing the Data Center Design Process"
Presenter: Rob Coyle
"Session Title: Case Study: Creating Standard Security Frameworks for Improving Data Center Security Posture"
Presenter: Joey Arato

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