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 and scroll down to the "OCP Rack & Power Project" schedule to get the times and call-in details.
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