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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… -
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. Cole joined us a little… -
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… -
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… -
Engineering Workshop in New York – October 1
UPDATED Registration 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… -
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,… -
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… -
Open Rack Design Guide Available
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… -
Water Efficiency at Facebook’s Prineville Data Center
For Facebook, good data center design is all about efficiency — how efficiently we use energy, materials, and water, and how they tie together to bring about cost efficiency. We’ve previously shared information on energy and… -
Register Now for the Next Open Compute Summit!
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… -
Deploying OCP Hardware in a Co-Located Facility
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… -
Tim O’Reilly to Deliver a Keynote at the Open Compute Summit IV
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: