Facebook open source data centre project gains strength
Open Compute Project has new server designs and members
09 May 2012 Source: techworld.com
Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
The company provided details about implementations of the open hardware designs and also announced new members of the Open Compute Project, including HP, Advanced Micro Devices, Fidelity, Quanta, Tencent, Salesforce.com, VMware, Canonical and Supermicro. HP and Dell have contributed new server and storage designs that fit into OCP's Open Rack specification, which covers hardware, such as motherboards and power components, that goes inside a server chassis.
The Open Compute Project was announced by Facebook in April last year and revolves around opening up hardware specifications and designs to create power-efficient and economical data centres. The project shares the ethos of the open source software movement, with a community working together to share, tweak and update hardware designs with the aim of improving products.
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