Open Compute Project

Open Compute Project
Formation 2011
Type Industry trade group
Purpose Sharing designs of data center products
Website opencompute.org

The Open Compute Project is an organization that shares designs of data center products among companies, including Facebook, Intel, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Rackspace, Ericsson, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Bank of America.[1]

The initiative was announced in April 2011 by Jonathan Heiliger[2] at Facebook to openly share designs of data center products.[3] The effort came out of a redesign of Facebook's data center in Prineville, Oregon.[4] After two years, it was admitted that "the new design is still a long way from live data centers".[5] However, some aspects published were used in the Prineville center to improve the energy efficiency, as measured by the power usage effectiveness index defined by The Green Grid.[6]

The Open Compute Project Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit incorporated in the state of Delaware. Corey Bell serves as the Foundation's CEO. Currently there are 7 members who serve on board of directors which is made up of two individual members and five organizational members. Jason Taylor (Facebook) is the Foundation's president and chairman. Frank Frankovsky (formerly of Facebook and past president and chairman) and Andy Bechtolsheim are the two individual members. In addition to Jason Taylor who represents Facebook, other organizations on the Open Compute board of directors include Intel (Jason Waxman), Goldman Sachs (Don Duet), Rackspace (Mark Roenick), and Microsoft (Bill Laing).[7]

On March 11, 2015 Apple, Cisco and Juniper Networks joined the project.[8]

On February 23, 2016 Lenovo joined the project. [9]

On March 9, 2016 Google joined the project. [10]

Components of the Open Compute Project include:

Open Compute V2 Server
Open Compute V2 Drive Tray,
2nd lower tray extended

OCP solutions providers

More information about the OCP Solution Provider Program can be found here

See also

References

  1. ↑ "How Facebook Changed the Basic Tech That Runs the Internet". 11 Apr 2015.
  2. ↑ Heiliger, Jonathan (2015-06-15). "Why I Started the Open Compute Project". Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Rich Miller (April 14, 2011). "Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market?". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ Jonathan Heiliger (April 7, 2011). "Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project". Facebook Engineering's notes. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ Cade Metz (January 16, 2013). "Facebook Shatters the Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces". Wired. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  6. 1 2 Amir Michael (February 15, 2012). "Facebook's Open Compute Project". Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium. Stanford University. (video archive)
  7. ↑ "Organization and Board". Open Compute. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  8. ↑ Charles Babcock (March 11, 2015). "Open Compute: Apple, Cisco Join While HP Expands". Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Lenovo joins Open Compute Project". February 23, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Google joins the Open Compute Project". March 9, 2016.
  11. ↑ Tom Schnell (January 16, 2013). "ARM Server Motherboard Design for Open Vault Chassis Hardware v0.3 MB-draco-hesperides-0.3" (PDF). Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  12. ↑ Mike Yan and Jon Ehlen (January 16, 2013). "Open Vault Storage Hardware V0.7 OR-draco-bueana-0.7" (PDF). Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Hyve Solutions Contributes Storage Design Concept to OCP Community". News release. January 17, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  14. ↑ Conor Malone (January 15, 2012). "Torpedo Design Concept Storage Server for Open Rack Hardware v0.3 ST-draco-chimera-0.3" (PDF). Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  15. ↑ Jay Hauser for Frank Frankovsky (May 8, 2013). "Up next for the Open Compute Project: The Network". Open Compute blog. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  16. ↑ David Chernicoff (May 9, 2013). "Can Open Compute change network switching?". ZDNet. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  17. ↑ Cade Metz (May 8, 2013). "Facebook Rattles Networking World With ‘Open Source’ Gear". Wired. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  18. ↑ Steven Levy (April 17, 2012). "Going With the Flow: Google’s Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking". Wired. Retrieved July 9, 2013.

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