Rack & Power
WELCOME
- Welcome to the OCP Rack and Power Project.
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- 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
OCP Regional Summit: September 26th - 27th, 2019
The Call for Participation for our Regional Summit is now open! If you are using OCP solutions in your infrastructure, if your software is running on OCP gear or if you are building products based on open specifications, we want to hear about it! Share your experiences, your challenges, your unique approach to OCP. If you are looking to adopt OCP, if you are willing to explore OCP solutions in your company or if you are interested in becoming a solution provider for OCP products or facilities, this is the conference for you. You can find more information here.
Documents
- - Charter
Project Leadership
Incubation Committee Representative
- - Steve Mills (Facebook)
Project Leads
- - Caleb Lusk (Rittal)
- - TBD
Get Involved
Subprojects
- Advanced Cooling Solutions
- - Wiki
- - Mailing List
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 to be viewed and downloaded on the Specifications and Designs page here.
Regular Project Calls
This project meets on the second Wednesday of every month from 12-1pm EST (please check the call calendar).
You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (571) 317-3112 Access Code: 461-957-909
Recordings from Past Calls
- - August 14th, 2019
- - May 8th, 2019
- - April 10th, 2019
- - February 13th, 2019
- - December 12th, 2018
- - November 14th, 2018
- - August 8th, 2018
- - June 13th, 2018
- - May 9th, 2018
- - April 11th, 2018
- - Feb 14th, 2018
- - Jan 10th, 2018
- - Dec 13th, 2017
Presentations from Rack & Power Meetings
- - CALL - MAY2019
- - CALL - DEC2018
- - CALL - NOV2018
- - CALL - AUG2018
- -Engineering Workshop JUL 2018
- - CALL - MAY2018
- - CALL - FEB2018
- - CALL - FEB2017
- - Dallas Engineering Workshop - SEP2017
- - Santa Clara Summit - MAR 2017
- - UNH Engineering Workshop - AUG 2016
- - San Jose Summit - MAR 2016
- - Boston Engineering Workshop - OCT 2015
- - San Jose Summit - MAR 2015
- -Paris Summit - OCT 2014
- - San Jose Summit - Jan 2014
- - San Jose Engineering Workshop - Aug 2013
- - MIT Engineering Workshop - May 2013