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Registration Now Open for the Open Compute Project U.S. Summit 2016
The early bird gets the worm! Registration for the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2016 is now open with special early bird ticket pricing. The Summit will be held on March 9-10, 2016 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. This year's event will gather some of the industr (...)
Welcoming Nokia to OCP
Nokia Networks announcedthat it has joined Open Compute Project (OCP) as a Gold member, and will work with the OCP Foundation to help drive greater efficiencies, flexibility, and scale in the data center with their AirFrame solution. We're thrilled to see continued momentum in the OCP community and (...)
Special Election Nominations Now Open for the OCP Open Rack Project IC Seat
The OCP Incubation Committee (IC) is made up of dedicated volunteers and thought leaders who are in, near, and around the data center hardware ecosystem. In March we announced that we would be extending the terms of our volunteer leadership and holding no elections until 2016. However, we now have a (...)
OCP Networking Project: 2015 Milestones and Looking Ahead to 2016
The OCP Networking Project members recently met at the OCP Engineering Workshopin Boston, hosted by Fidelity. It was a full day of vibrant discussions that left us feeling excited and optimistic about what's coming next. As we reflect on work done in the past year, a couple of takeaways stand out: T (...)
Department of Energy Adopts OCP Inspired Designs by Penguin
Today, Penguin announcedthat the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that it plans to deploy a series of OCP-inspired high-performance computing clusters designed by OCP solution provider Penguin Computing. The systems will provide additional com (...)
New leadership on the OCP Foundation board
The OCP Foundation board of directors meets every quarter to review the progress of the community and our direction and goals for the coming quarters. Once every four quarters, these meetings also include the nomination and election of board leadership for the upcoming year. At this quarter’s meetin (...)
Registration Now Open OCP Engineering Workshop - Fidelity - October 9, 2015
The Open Compute Project Foundation will host a series of engineering workshops in 2015 to build and grow the OCP community. The goals of these workshops include: Increase community participation and stickiness. Increase the OCP technology portfolio; depth and breadth of specifications and charte (...)
Announcing the New OCP C&I Project Co-Leads
Earlier, YF Juan announced that he would be stepping down as the OCP C&I Project Leader. This announcement triggered an OCP special election. The nominees for the OCP C&I Project Lead seat included: Anita Kuo (ITRI) and David Woolf (UNH-IOL) Matt Peterson (Cumulus) The OCP Foundation would (...)
Case Study: Coolan Provides Open Compute Project Community with Vital Performance Data
Startup firm brings visibility to Open Compute Project hardware performance by collecting and analyzing usagedata to help companies get the most from their servers. Coolan is a data-driven, community-based software platform that provides insight into how data centerenvironments are performing. Found (...)