Open Vault (Storage)
The Open Vault storage server (code named “Knox”) seeks to redefine data center storage. The goals of the project are:
A simple and cost-effective storage solution
Flexible I/O topology
Serviceability, designed…
Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure
We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up – and then share these technologies as they evolve.
The result is a data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers.
By releasing Open Compute Project technologies as open hardware, our goal is to develop servers and data centers following the model traditionally associated with open source software projects. That’s where you come in.
Featured Projects
Hardware Management
Scale computing requires a small and stable set of tools to remotely management machines. The hardware management specification incorporates a set of existing tools and best practices and…
Open Rack
The Open Rack is the first rack standard that’s designed for data centers, integrating the rack into the data center infrastructure, part of the Open Compute Project’s “grid…
Intel Motherboard
The OCP specification for the Intel v2.0 motherboard uses two Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processors and 16 DIMM slots per board. Intel developed their own version of the board,…
AMD Motherboard
The OCP specification for the AMD v2.0 motherboard is a dual AMD G34 socket motherboard (Magny Cours or Interlagos) with 16 DIMM slots (PCB mechanical and motherboard mechanical…
Power Supply
The Open Compute Project 450W power supply is an AC/DC power converter, single voltage 12.5VDC, closed frame, self-cooled power supply used in high-efficiency applications. The power converter includes…
Chassis
The Open Compute Project chassis is designed to accommodate the other components in a server, including the custom motherboard and power supply. Overall it is vanity free, has…
