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Welcome to the new opencompute.org! This revamp focuses the site onprojects and the community. Please bear with us as we work out our kinks,but we have a new streamlined project browser with links to some projectson GitHub! Our original specifications were created in Word and convertedto PDFs, not a (...)

Facebook's Prineville, Oregon, data center, which opened in April 2011, had a Power Usage Effectiveness PUE of 1.08 for the second quarter of 2011, compared to 1.07 in the first quarter1. For the first half of the year, this means 93% of the energy from the grid makes it into every Open Compute serv (...)

Many data centers sit on a lot of "cold storage" -- servers containing terabytes of user data that must be retained but is rarely accessed, because users no longer need that data. While the servers are considered cold because they are rarely utilized, their hard drives are usually spinning at full s (...)

Operating at Web scale, and doing so as efficiently as possible, is the next great challenge facing the IT industry. The Open Compute Project was formed to help us all meet that challenge; it's our hope that adopting an "open source" approach to building servers, storage, power supplies, and data ce (...)

A team of researchers including Eric Masanet at Northwestern University, Arman Shehabi at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Jonathan Koomey at Stanford University wrote an article in the current issue of the refereed journal Nature Climate Change, summarizing the key factors affecting the g (...)

By Frank Frankovsky-Chairman/President, Open Compute Project A little more than a month ago, the Open Compute Project celebrated itstwo-year anniversary. When Facebookfirst launchedthe project, it was our hope that we could spark more conversation and more collaboration around the development of ef (...)

Have a great idea for innovating data center technologies? Then join us for our second-ever hardware hackathon on June 18, 2013, at the GigaOM Structure conference. Your idea can win a $10,000 prize if it's best positioned to become a venture-backed startup. In addition to the prize money, the Open (...)

The Open Compute Project community keeps growing! We're excited to welcome the OCP Taiwan chapter, which launched May 23, 2013. It's the second international chapter, after OCP Japan. OCPT, through its founding member Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), will set up an OCP Certification (...)

More than 60 hackers came from across the country and around the world to the Facebook campus this week to hack hardware designs at the second Open Compute Hardware Hackathon. The winning entry, a mesh network debugging tool, was announced at the GigaOm Structure conference and the team took home $1 (...)