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- 2023 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, Prague
- 2022 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
- 2021 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
- 2020 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (Virtual)
- 2020 OCP Future Technologies: (Re)Designing Collaboration
- 2019 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, Amsterdam
- 2019 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
2023 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, Prague
19 April 2023, Prague, Czech Republic
AI/HPC and Data Center Sustainability
Future Technologies Symposium
Title | Speakers | ||
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OCP FTS Kick off & Opening Keynote "The AI Revolution is Upon Us: HPC Implications" | Lesya Dymyd (OCP), Allan Smith (Rise Consulting), Allan Cantle (Nallasway) | Video | |
Quantum-accelerated Supercomputing | Laura Schulz (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) | Video | Slides |
Putting the "work" in network: In-network stream data analytics | Monica Chiosa (ETH Zurich) | Video | Slides |
Energy Efficient AI Hardware: neuromorphic circuits and tools | Loreto Mateu (Fraunhofer) | Video | Slides |
Could Energy Aware Runtime (EAR) be the European bet for AI/HPC Data Center energy optimization? | Julita Corbalan (Barcelona Supercomputing Center/Polytechnic University of Catalonia) | Video | Slides |
"Hot IT" a false economy? The true impact of temperature and location on efficiency | Richard Kenny (Interact) | Video | Slides |
Panel: Heat Reuse: Boiler Possibilities | Allan Smith (Rise Consulting), Clément Pellegrini (Qarnot Computing), Francois Tournesac (Impleon) | Video | |
Cloud infrastructure: It has to work, and it has to be sustainable ... Surely this is not impossible! | Kenneth Tan (Sardina Systems) | Video | Slides |
Kickoff FTS Technology Demonstrations | Lesya Dymyd (OCP) | Video | |
FTS Technology Demonstrations | Clément Pellegrini (Qarnot Computing), Jeroen Burks (Blockheating), Kenneth Tan (Sardina Systems), David Gyulnazaryan (Impleon), Çağatay Yilmaz (Research Institutes of Sweden), Julita Corbalan (Barcelona Supercomputing Center/Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Karl Rabe (WoodenDataCenter), Alan Gibbemeyer (Telescent) | Video |
2022 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
19 October, San Jose, California
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 OCP Future Technologies Symposium awards!
OCP Symposium Best Paper ($10.000 USD) : DWDM photonics for optical compute interconnects, Alan Liu, Quintessent
OCP Symposium Track Best Paper (Meta Portal +)
- Network Track : DWDM photonics for optical compute interconnects, Alan Liu, Quintessent
- HPC Track : Thermal feasibility of the OCP HPC module, Çağatay YILMAZ, Ender Demirel, Allan Cantle, Lande Rack Cabinet Design, Simulation Technologies, Nallasway
- Data Center Efficiency : Low-Profile High-Efficiency 6kW 400V/48V Three-Phase LLC with Integrated Planar Magnetics, Rimon Gadelrab, Fred Lee, Virginia Tech
- Systems (Server, Storage, Switches, Power) : Use Cases for Software-Defined Tiered Memory and Memory Snapshots, Yue Li, MemVerge
Future Technologies Symposium presentations:
Title | Speakers | ||
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2022 OCP Future Technologies Symposium Kick-Off | Lesya Dymyd (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP)) | Allan Smith (Meta) | Video | N/A |
Advanced Packaging Platforms and Design Kits for Chiplets Integration in HPC Applications | Lihong Cao (ASE Group) | Video | Slides |
Challenges of new product innovation at the IT industry | Sungwook Ryu (Samsung) | Video | Slides |
CSM Telemetry Data Sharing Model | Panos Christeas (Meta) | Video | N/A |
CSM WG Introduction | Murugasamy Nachimuthu (Intel Corporation) | Video | Slides |
CXL-based Memory Expansion and Near Memory Processing Opportunities: A Case Study for Data Analytics Platforms | Don Moon (SK hynix) | Video | Slides |
Digital Background Calibration of Time-Interleaved ADCs Using FIR Filters | Naim Ben-Hamida (Ciena) | Video | Slides |
DSS - The Open Source [P/T]erabyte Scale Storage Engine for High Bandwidth Applications | Mahsa Bayati (Samsung) | Video | Slides |
DWDM photonics for optical compute interconnects | Alan Liu (Quintessent) | Video | Slides |
From Start Up to Sustainable Super-computing Company | Leonie Banzer (Cloud&Heat) | Video | N/A |
From water consumer to water producer: Modular - ultra-high-dense - direct hot-liquid cooled - sustainable data centers | Leonie Banzer (Cloud&Heat) | Jaime Comella (Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) | Jens Struckmeier (Cloud&Heat) | Video | Slides |
FTI Project Update: AI HW-SW Co-design | Weifeng Zhang (Alibaba) | Video | Slides |
FTI Project Update: Cloud Service Model (CSM) | Murugasamy Nachimuthu (Intel Corporation) | Video | Slides |
FTI Project Update: Software Defined Memory (SDM) | Manoj Wadekar (Meta) | Video | Slides |
FTS & FTI Announcements | Lesya Dymyd (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP)) | Allan Smith (Meta) | Yangseok Ki (Samsung) | Video | Slides |
Group Scope Proposal | Manoj Wadekar (Meta) | Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam (Intel Corporation) | Samir Mittal (Micron Technology) | Video | N/A |
How HARTING Enables Critical Data Center Technologies | Will Stewart (HARTING) | Video | Slides |
Inband Management Agents (IMA) | George Kola (Google) | Video | N/A |
Low-Profile High-Efficiency 6kW 400V/48V Three-Phase LLC with Integrated Planar Magnetics | Rimon Gadelrab (Virginia Tech (CPES)) | Fred Lee (CPES Virginia Tech) | Video | Slides |
Next-generation Co-Packaged Optics for Future Disaggregated AI Systems | Sajjad Moazeni (University of Washington-Seattle) | Video | Slides |
OCP FTS and FTI as enablers of innovation in the OCP Community | George Tchaparian (OCP) | Video | Slides |
OCP SDM Project Plan/Discussion/Wrap Up | Manoj Wadekar (Meta) | Video | N/A |
Open Compute Heat Appliances Unlocking the sustainable ♻️ decentralized compute ecosystem | Jeroen van Bemmel (Exergy) | Video | Slides |
PANEL: Industry synergies on cloud scale infrastructure management challenges and opportunities | Mohan Kumar (Intel Corporation) | Panos Christeas (Meta) | Balint Fleischer (Micron Technology) | Chukwunenye Nnebe (Microsoft) | Phil Shafer (Juniper Networks) | Video | N/A |
PANEL: SDM Ecosystem Readiness | Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam (Intel Corporation) | Rekha Pitchumani (Samsung) | Puja Zalawadia (Micron) | Mahesh Wagh (AMD) | Qasim Ali (VMWare) | Video | N/A |
PANEL: SDM Use Cases | Manoj Wadekar (Meta) | Renu Raman (Vmware) | Vikrant Soman (Uber) | Samir Rajadnya (Microsoft) | Video | N/A |
PANEL: Why Are We Talking About AI HW/SW Co-Design Again? | Allan Cantle (Nallasway) | Yangseok Ki (Samsung) | Danny Moore (Rambus) | Huihuo Zheng (Argonne National Lab) | Kevin Cameron (Cirrus Logic) | Video | N/A |
Parallel microLED-based optical links enable <1pJ/bit energy consumption | Christoph Pfistner (Avicena) | Video | Slides |
Polymorphic Architecture for Future AI/ML Applications | Weifeng Zhang (Alibaba) | Video | Slides |
Satellite Management Controller Architecture | Changho Choi (Samsung) | Bumjun (BJay) Kim (Samsung) | Video | N/A |
SDM Welcome & Kickoff | Manoj Wadekar (Meta) | Video | N/A |
Symposium Awards Presentation | Lesya Dymyd (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP)) | Allan Smith (Meta) | Video | N/A |
Symposium Wrap Up | Lesya Dymyd (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP)) | Allan Smith (Meta) | Video | N/A |
Thermal feasibility of the OCP HPC module | Çağatay Yilmaz (Lande Rack Cabinet) | Ender Demirel (Design and Simulation Technologies Inc.) | Allan Cantle (Nallasway) | Video | Slides |
Thrifty Workload Planning for Datacenter Sustainability and Efficiency | Nik Sultana (Illinois Institute of Technology) | Video | Slides |
TintenFisch: The Multi-brained Datacenter Machine | Andres Lagar-Cavilla (Google) | Video | Slides |
Tracking de-multiplexer for uncooled 1.6T-FR8 with backward compatibility | Siamak Amiralizadeh (Meta) | Video | Slides |
Use Cases for Software-Defined Tiered Memory and Memory Snapshots | Yue Li (MemVerge) | Video | Slides |
2021 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
8 November 2021, San Jose California
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 OCP Future Technologies Symposium awards!
OCP Symposium Best Paper ($10,000 USD) : Pushing the Boundary Conditions of Data Centers Facilitates Innovative Circular Economy Approaches, Leonie Banzer et al, Cloud & Heat
- Click here to read a blog the Cloud & Heat Technologies team put together explaining their paper!
OCP Symposium Track Best Paper (Ray-Ban Stories) :
- DC Sustainability Track : Cloud & Heat Technologies (Leonie Banzer): Pushing the Boundary Conditions of Data Centers Facilitates Innovative Circular Economy Approaches
- Hardware Performance & Acceleration Track : ProteanTecs (Alex Burlak): Reliability of Cloud Scale Hardware Through Performance and Health Monitoring Using On-chip Telemetry
- Power Delivery & Efficiency Track : Princeton University (Jaeil Baek & Youssef Elasser): Vertical Stacked 48V-1V Voltage Regulator for Ultra High Current Microprocessors
- Networking Track : Avicena Tech (Robert Kalman): Wide and Parallel LED - Based Optical Links Using Multi-Core Fiber for Chip-to-Chip Communications
2020 OCP Future Technologies Symposium
15 May 2020, Virtual conference (due to Covid)
Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 OCP Future Technologies Symposium Best Paper Award ($10.000 USD): Ahmed Nabih, Qiang Li and Fred C. Lee from the Center of Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech.
2020 OCP Future Technologies Symposium: Selected Topics
- Industrial Tech Research Institute: Container-based NFVI Platform with Network Performance Analysis and Tuning for Mobile Edge Private Network - Poster, Brief
- Alibaba Group: HPCC: High Precision Congestion Control for High-Speed Networking - Poster, Brief
- University of Waikato: Using Faucet to Validate Hardware OpenFlow Implementations - Poster, Brief
- Osaka University: Feasibility study of liquid immersion technology for cooling network equipment - Poster, Brief
- AIST: Development of Fast Control Plane for an Optical and Electrical Hybrid Switch Network - Poster, Brief
- University of Toronto: Toward Intelligent Interconnect Fabrics - Poster, Brief
- University of Southampton: Programmable integrated optical circuits using the open-access CORNERSTONE platform - Poster, Brief
- UC Berkeley: Hybrid and Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters: Achieving Ultra Efficient and Compact High Step-Down DC-DC Power Conversion for Datacenter Applications - Poster, Brief
- Alibaba Group: Distributed Shared Memory Architecture Poster, Brief
- Inphi Corp: 2.5D Heterogenous Silicon Photonics Light Engine with Integrated DFB Lasers and Electronics - Poster, Brief
- Industrial Tech Research Institute: Reconfigurable Array of Inexpensive Batteries Architecture - Poster
- University of Penn./University of Colorado Boulder/Stanford University/University of Central Fl.: Towards peta-bit/s optical links - Poster, Brief
- Princeton University: LEGO-PoL: A Family of Extreme Performance Miniaturized Point-of-Load Converters for High Current Microprocessors - Poster, Brief
- Samsung Electronics: Zoned Namespaces: From Archival to I/O Predictability - Poster, Brief
- Virginia Tech: 3kW Power Supply Design with Easy Manufacturability for 48 V Bus Power Architecture - Poster, Brief
- Stanford University/Inphi Corporation: Coherent Co-Packaged Optical Interfaces Enabling Next-Generation Data Center Switching - Poster, Brief
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Wide Voltage Range High-Efficiency Sigma Converter 48V VRM With Fast Transient Response - Poster, Brief
- Alibaba Group: Towards AI-assisted Video Compression - Poster
- UC Santa Cruz: ReFlex4ARM: Supporting 100GbE Flash Storage Disaggregation on ARM SoC - Poster, Brief
- HPE/Intel/University of Florida: Near Data Processing Workload Acceleration - Design Space Exploration on Current Architectures and Workloads
- Lightbits Labs: Always Available Clustered High Performance Storage with LightOS - Poster
- Industrial Tech Research Institute: PCIe Network as an Open Inter-Accelerator Interconnect - Poster
- San Jose State University: A 48-V Point of Load LLC Converter for Data Center Applications using Hybrid Control Structure - Poster
- Juniper Networks: Manufacture and Test of Photonics within the Electronics Ecosystem - Poster
- Princeton University: Stochastic Model and Scaling Factor of Differential Power Processing for Hard Disk Drive Servers - Poster
- North Dakota State University/University of Dayton: A 99.5% Efficient Switched-Capacitor Resonant Converter for Data Center Application - Poster
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: High Frequency Isolated Transformer Design for Medium Voltage AC to Low Voltage DC Power Conversion - Poster
- University of New Hampshire: Validating the Open Compute Project NIC 3.0 PCIe Bifurcation Mechanism - Poster
- Forced Physics DCT: Cool with Ambient Air to Reduce Cost and Climate Risk - Poster
- SkyCool Systems: Reducing Data Center Energy and Water Usage Through Passive Radiative Cooling - Poster
- University of Washington/Columbia University/Microsoft: Integrating Data Center Battery Storage with the Grid: Participation in Frequency Regulation Markets - Poster
2020 Future Technologies: (Re)Designing Collaboration
6 October, 2022, Virtual event
The OCP Future Technologies Symposium team held an interactive experience: (Re)Designing Collaboration on October 6th, 2020 at 9 AM PT. Attendees heard keynote presentations from people in academia and industry on lessons learned, effective remote collaboration and practices to respond to crises.
Event objectives:
- Learn - to know how others are adopting and solving the crisisrelated challenges due to Covid
- Inspire - to be aware of the existing solutions and models to apply in your organization
- Collaborate - to understand how our COmmunity members can cooperate to solve the future IT challenges together
Event Materials:
- Kick-off : Allan Smith, Facebook: Video, Slides
- Meeting the Challenge with Spartan Spirit at Silicon Valley’s Public University - David Parent, SJSU: Video, Slides
- Academia Panel: Video
- Arvind Krishnamurthy, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
- David Woolf, UNH Inter-Operability Laboratory
- Tian Gu, MIT
- 30 Global Workstreams: Designing Return to Office for Facebook, Inc in 6 Weeks - Allan Smith, Facebook: Video
- Migrating In-Person Events to Virtual - Jeremy Muir, FNTECH: Video, Slides
- Conversation with Bill Carter, OCP CTO: Video
- Pivoting Quickly in a Virtual World - Mitch Glaser, AirBnB: Video
- Wrap-up - Allan Smith, Facebook, and Lesya Dymyd, 2CRSi: Video, Slides
2019 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
14 March 2019, San Jose California
- Congratulations to the winner of the 2019 OCP Symposium Best Paper Award (Awarded an Oculus Rift.)
- MIT - Tian Gu - High-performance Polymer Optic and Photonic Devices for Chip-scale Optical Interconnects - Poster
- Osaka University - Poster 1, Poster 2
- Princeton - Poster
- Northwestern - Poster
- Smith College - Poster
- UC Berkeley - Poster
- UC San Diego - Poster
- UC Santa Barbara - Poster
- UC Santa Cruz - Poster
- University of Manitoba - Poster
- University of New Hampshire - Poster
2019 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, Amsterdam
26 September 2019, Amsterdam Netherlands
- Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 OCP Symposium Best Paper Awards (Both were awarded an Oculus Rift.)
- 2crsi: Towards Industrialized Performance and Quality control - Brief
- High Efficiency Data Center PSU - Brief
- LiquidBrain: Massively Parallel Liquid Cooling for AI Supercomputing - Brief
- Osaka University & Fujitsu: Experimental evaluation of cooling performance for liquid immersion - Brief, Video
- Northwestern University & NCHC: Clonezillafor ONIE - Brief
- San Jose State University: Computation Aspect of Memristor Memories - Brief
- Telescent: Automated, Open Meet-Me-Room - Brief
- IBM: Open Tape for Open Compute - Brief, Paper