Server/ProjectOlympus
Welcome
Welcome to the Project Olympus Sub-Group. Charter for this team is to enable the OCP community to further explore, invent, collaborate, enhance, and produce great solutions for customers using Project Olympus modular building blocks. Project Olympus is Microsoft's next generation rack level solution that is open sourced through Open Compute Project. Initially introduced in November 2016 and with V1.0 contribution in November 2017, Project Olympus addresses variety of cloud workloads for Microsoft Cloud. Since inception, Project Olympus has attracted a large group of partners such as compute silicon providers, ODMs, OEMs, and component manufacturers. It is becoming the de facto open-compute standard for cloud workloads.
Project Olympus base specification defines a modular architecture with clear internal and external interfaces. These modules include Hardware (Rack, Universal PDU, Rack Manager, 1U/2U Server and mechanical Enclosures, Power Supply (PSU), Universal Motherboard, PCIe Riser Boards, PCIe and other Cables, and Expansion Modules for storage and accelerators) and Software/Firmware (Software RESTful API, Rack Manager Software/Firmware/Interface, BMC Firmware, System Firmware (BIOS/UEFI code), ResetAPI Spec, and Software APIs) components.
Project Olympus comprises these Hardware and Software Modules to realize a holistic rack architecture; however, individual Modules are applicable to Racks, Chassis, Rack Managers, PDUs, PSUs, Blades and Motherboards from other architectures such as OCP Open Rack, Open Rack 19, Scorpio, 19” EIA Racks, Rack-mount Servers, and Tower Servers.
While, Microsoft is planning Design and Product implementations based on Project Olympus specification, we encourage the community to use as-is, buy/sell as-is, or modify-to-use/sell and to provide feedback on any of these software or hardware Modules.
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Project Olympus Modular System Design
Project Olympus is a modular system designed for convergence of the industry ecosystem to enable onboarding more hardware more quickly. The systems are designed for the needs of scale-up systems.
Project Olympus Rack System
Project Olympus is built upon a base Rack, 42U or 48U tall, with integrated A/C power distribution and rack-level management.
| Project Olympus Specifications | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Project Olympus Rack Specification | Heavy Duty 42U or 48U options to cover your needs |
| Project Olympus Chassis Mechanical 3D PDF | Enables fly-by of the Rack with integrated PMDU, Rack Management, and Universal Power cords |
| Project Olympus Chassis Specification | Chassis is simple tracks that enable the servers to slide and blind-mate to the PMDU. |
| Project Olympus Universal Power Monitoring Distribution Unit (PMDU) | Distributes two three-phase AC Power inputs to each of the server positions. Home to the Rack Manager which serves as single point of control for the servers with embedded on/off capability and rack-level power measurement and power capping ability. |
| Project Olympus Universal Power Distribution Unit (UPDU) | 2U Horizontal or 0U Vertical UPDU for use in any EIA rack. This enables a single rack design to be deployed into any data center world wide with only the change of the power cord. |
| Project Olympus Universal Power Cord | Enables single PDU to use different Power Cords for World-Wide Deployments |
| Project Olympus Rack Manager | Rack Level Management integrates into the PMDU |
| Project Olympus Standalone Rack Manager | Servers don't have to use the PMDU. With the Standalone Rack Manager, you can manage any server with an Ethernet port off the BMC for single point of Rack-level control |
| Project Olympus Air Blocker | Plastic air blocker for EIA rack that works with both bare rails and with Project Olympus tracks |
Project Olympus Servers
Microsoft's 1U and 2U servers mix and match with your motherboard.
| Project Olympus Specifications | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Project Olympus 1U Server Spec | Universal 1U server chassis that works mix and match with different motherboards. When building a new motherboard, always be certain that it is fully compatible. If there are differences, you'll need to modify the chassis and provide the changes in a submitted specification. |
| Project Olympus 2U Server Spec | Universal 2U server chassis features 12 Large Form Factor HDD storage expansion |
| Project Olympus Universal Motherboard | Depicts a generic motherboard with I/O slots, face plate, mounting holes, power and management connectors all in the right place. |
| Project Olympus Server Power Supply | This native N+1 1,000W PSU accepts two three-phase AC Power inputs to automatically balance the phases to enable more servers to be deployed into the datacenter. |
| Project Olympus Universal Power Supply Software Interface | To enable the ecosystem to build many different motherboards, the software interface to the PSU is critical. |
Project Olympus Motherboards Featuring Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Project Olympus is designed for a mix and match of different motherboards in the standardized chassis.
| Project Olympus Specifications | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Project Olympus Intel XSP Motherboard | Deep contributions into this Motherboard |
| Project Olympus Intel XSP Motherboard BIOS | BIOS Specification used for the Intel motherboard. |
Project Olympus Motherboards
Project Olympus is designed for a mix and match of different motherboards in the standardized chassis.
| Project Olympus Specifications | Explanation |
|---|---|
| AMD EPYC Motherboard | AMD EPYC Motherboard |
| Project Olympus Cavium ThunderX2 ARM64 Motherboard | Cavium ThunderX2 |
| Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Motherboard for Project Olympus | Qualcomm Motherboard shown at OCP March 2017 Summit |
Project Olympus Expansion Chassis
Project Olympus features mix and match expansion modules.
| Project Olympus Specifications | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Project Olympus DX-88 | Storage Expansion featuring 88 Hot-Swap Disk Drives. Can be set up to have one, two or four Project Olympus 1U Server Head Nodes for 88, 44, or 22 HDDs each. |
| Project Olympus Project Olympus DX-88 Power Supply | Three Phase 1650W Hot-Swap PSU used as a pair in the DX-88 to provide highly available N+N power |
| Project Olympus HGX-1 | Hyperscale GPU Accelerator Expansion Chassis featuring eight NVIDIA SXM2 GPUs |
Quick Links
Data Center Dynamics / OCP Converged Summit Nov 2016
Project Olympus Introduction (Nov 2016)
Project Olympus Technical Overview (Nov 2016)
Project Olympus Universal Motherboard (Nov 2016)
Get Involved
Events
More information about OCP events can be found at: http://www.opencompute.org/community/events/ocp-events-calendar
Project Olympus Kick-off at Data Center Dynamics Nov 2016
OCP Engineering Workshop Sessions - TBD
Meetings
This project meets - TBD
This call is open to the public.
The agenda as well as information on how to join the call can be found at: TBD
Working documents are posted to the WIKI at: TBD
Meeting minutes are available at: TBD
Communication
Project communication is done through the opencompute-project-olympus@lists.opencompute.org mailing list.
To get on the mailing list or manage your subscription go to: http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-project-olympus
To access the mailing list archives go to: http://lists.opencompute.org/pipermail/opencompute-project-olympus/
Specifications and Designs
Any specifications that are accepted by the Foundation will be listed on the OCP Server Project Specs and Designs page at: http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/SpecsAndDesigns