Rack & Power
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WELCOME
- Welcome to the OCP Rack and Power Project.
Disclaimer: Please do not submit any confidential information to the Project Community. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes and/or supporting documents are published by OCP and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found on the [Legal Docs] page. If you have any questions please contact OCP.
- This project if focused on optimizing all of the infrastructure that IT gear uses for very large scale deployments.
- This includes items like:
- Physical support structures
- -Racks
- -Shelves and adapters
- -Cable management and gear interconnects
- Stable Power delivery at the Rack level and below
- -power distribution system
- -battery back-up
- -power conversion
- Physical support structures
- This project is focused on solving problems for large scale deployment like:
- -fast deployment of resources to the data center
- -efficient upgrade cycles
- -simple physical and thermal interfaces for the data center
- -quickly identifying and servicing of failed components
- -extracting value from components with different lifetimes
More details about the project scope can be found in the Rack & Power Project Charter here
Get Involved
- This project is open to the public and we are interested in getting the community involved to make things better.
Events
- Join us at a meeting:
- This project meets annually at the OCP Summit events. More information on these events can be found on the OCP events page
- or a workshop:
- This project also meets at OCP Engineering Workshop Sessions as needed. Please check out the Engineering Workshop Calendar to find out how to join.
How to get in touch with OCP: Communication Paths
Email one of the Rack & Power Project leads:
or
Join the "Opencompute-openrack" mailing list here:
Website - http://www.opencompute.org/projects/rack-and-power/
Specifications and Design files
- The community involved in the Rack & Power Project has created several standards and specifications to help with developing new products.
- All of the files are available for <<DOWNLOAD>>.
Presentations from Rack & Power Meetings
CALL - FEB2018
CALL - FEB2017