Open Compute Project
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| Formation | 2011 |
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| Type | Industry trade group |
| Purpose | Sharing designs of data center products |
| Website | opencompute |
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an organization that shares designs of data center products among companies, including Facebook, Intel, Nokia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Seagate Technology, Dell, Rackspace, Ericsson, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Bank of America.
The Open Compute Project's mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing. "We believe that openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing operational complexity in the scalable computing space."
All Facebook Data Centers are 100% OCP: Prineville Data Center, Forest City Data Center, Altoona Data Center, Luleå Data Center (Sweden). Facebook Data Centers under construction: Fort Worth Data Center, Clonee Data Center (Ireland).
The initiative was announced in April 2011 by Jonathan Heiliger at Facebook to openly share designs of data center products. The effort came out of a redesign of Facebook's data center in Prineville, Oregon. After two years, with regards to a more module server design, it was admitted that "the new design is still a long way from live data centers". 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.
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