Rack & Power

The Rack & Power Project Group is the first group to focus on rack standards designed for data centers, integrating the rack into data center infrastructure as part of OCP’s “grid to gates” philosophy, a holistic design process that considers the interdependence of everything from the power grid to the gates in each chip. Its scope covers specs, standards, and products supporting rack system architectures (19-inch EIA compatible and 21-inch Open Rack), rack-level power systems for conversion, storage, and control of power between facility infrastructure and IT gear, and the shelves, supports, sub-chassis, and adapters needed to implement IT gear.

Rack & Power

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Harsha Bojja

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About This Project

The Rack & Power Project Group is the first group to focus on rack standards that are designed for data centers, integrating the rack into the data center infrastructure, part of the Open Compute Project’s “grid to gates” philosophy, a holistic design process that considers the interdependence of everything from the power grid to the gates in the chips on each motherboard.

Scope

Specs, standards, and products that support:

  • Rack System Architectures : 19” EIA Compatible and 21” Open Rack
  • Rack-Level Power Systems : conversion, storage, and control systems of power between the data center infrastructure and the IT gear
  • Shelves, Supports, Sub-Chassis & Adapters : needed to implement IT gear

OCP Academy

Free Training developed with the community:

Open Rack: Past, Present and Future
OCP Diablo 400: Power Sidecar

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This project if focused on optimizing all of the infrastructure that IT gear uses for very large scale deployments. This includes items like: Physical support structures -Racks -Shelves and adapters -Cable management and gear interconnects Stable Power delivery at the Rack level and below -power distribution system -battery back-up -power conversion This project is focused on solving problems for large scale deployment like: -fast deployment of resources to the data center -efficient upgrade cycles -simple physical and thermal interfaces for the data center -quickly identifying and servicing of failed components -extracting value from components with different lifetimes

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Rack and Power Project Roadmap

Regular Project Calls

This project meets on the second Wednesday of every month from 12-1pm EST (please check the call calendar on the OCP website for the latest time and call-in info). You can also subscribe to the Rack and Power mailing list to keep updated.

Recordings from Past Calls

Presentations from Rack & Power Meetings



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