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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 (...)

UPDATE: This workshop is at capacity and we have closed registration.The next OCP Engineering Workshop is scheduled for August 13, 2013 at Facebook's leased data center in San Jose, Calif. The all-day workshop follows on the heels of the previous workshop we held at MIT this past May.The workshops a (...)

Last week at the fourth Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, we held the first-ever OCP hardware hackathon. In just nine hours, a group of about 70 hackers generated seven really interesting hardware designs — all of which could now be turned into physical products that are ready to plug in and power (...)

The Open Compute Project is hosting its first international event in Hong Kong March 5th and 6th. Please join us for the event as we discuss the project in depth with the APAC community. We will focus specifically on the market conditions and unique position OCP can play in the Chinese and Japanese (...)

Wow! I can honestly say that 2 years ago I never thought I'd have the privilege of announcing the Open Compute Project's second anniversary. It's been an incredibly productive two years. We've done astounding things and we're just getting started. In the past year, the Foundation has:Hired its first (...)

Today Facebook launched two public dashboards that report continuous, near-real-time data for key efficiency metrics – specifically, PUE and WUE – for our data centers in Prineville, OR and Forest City, NC. These dashboards include both a granular look at the past 24 hours of data and a historical v (...)

As more and more organizations evaluate and adopt technologies based on Open Compute Project designs, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that those solutions are reliable and operate in an expected manner. To help meet that need, we're launching a new Compliance and Interoperability (C& (...)

We've finalized the agenda for the fourth Open Compute Summit, starting next Wednesday, January 16, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. You can see the list of keynote speakers and read the rundown of executive sessions and technical tracks on the summit's agenda page. See you next week in Santa C (...)

It's hard to believe that the Open Compute Project was founded just a little over 18 months ago. At our first Summit, in June 2011, we had 200 participants, one official member (Facebook), and exactly three technology contributions (all from Facebook). Today, as nearly 2,000 people converge on Santa (...)