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The next OCP Engineering Workshop is in Shanghai on September 15! This workshop will be a half day session in conjunction with the Cloud Connect conference. We will have a general session address from Cole Crawford, COO of the Open Compute Project, and will focus on the OCP APAC charter and communit (...)

UPDATEDRegistration for the OCP Engineering Workshop in the New York area on October 1 is now open!To register for this event, visit https://ocp-eng-ny.eventbrite.com. The event is password protected; to get the password, please contact me at charliem@fb.com.This workshop will be held at the Goldman (...)

We've just released the v1.0 Open Rack specification. The new specification documents the evolution of the Open Rack over the last few months since the 0.5 version was published: • Exclusive focus on a single column rack design. • Higher inlet temperature of 35°C, which reflects other Open Compute d (...)

For Facebook, good data center design is all about efficiency — how efficiently we use energy, materials, and water, and how they tie together to bring about cost efficiency. We've previously shared information on energy and materials efficiency, and today we're releasing our first water usage effec (...)

The Open Rack is the first rack standard that is designed for data centers, one that integrates the rack directly into data center infrastructure. Today we released a design guide for Open Rack. This guide provides specifications and guidelines to show suppliers of IT equipment how they can build s (...)

Most companies lease space in data centers instead of building their own; this isn't news to anyone in this space. But what might be news is that leasing space isn't a barrier to deploying highly efficient Open Compute Project servers. In fact, there are two ways you can use OCP hardware in a co-lo: (...)

We're excited to announce that we've opened registration for the fourth Open Compute Summit, to be held January 16-17, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.The Open Compute Project is just over one year old, and the community keeps growing, as do the summits. The 2012 sum (...)

Building a data center based on Open Compute Project designs in a relatively hot and humid area like Forest City, North Carolina, presented some interesting challenges. Chief among them, of course, was whether the 100% outdoor air cooling system Facebook debuted in our Prineville, Oregon, facility c (...)

The Open Compute Foundation is excited to welcome Cole Crawford, who has joined the foundation as its chief operating officer. Cole is an industry-recognized leader on cloud and scale computing, and he has been involved with open source since 1992, working for OpenStack and Nebula and advising the L (...)