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AMD Debuts First Open Compute Project Open 3.0 Motherboard

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | ZDNet | January 17, 2013

AMD is the first to unveil its Open Compute Project "open source" motherboard. Called the Open 3.0, the board is suitable for cloud server, storage servers, and high-performance computing clusters. Read More »

Facebook Hands Motherboard Designs To Open Compute Project

James Dohnert | V3.co.uk | January 17, 2013

Facebook has agreed to add its designs for a new common slot architecture specification for datacentre motherboards into the Open Compute Platform (OCP) initiative. Read More »

Facebook Loses Its Open-Source-Hardware Chief To The Startup Life

J. O'Dell | VB News | March 25, 2014

Facebook’s open-source-hardware champion, Frank Frankovsky, has left the building.  In a personal Facebook post, Frankovsky, who headed up the ambitious Open Compute Project and ran Facebook’s own hardware design, announced that he’s leaving to start his own company.

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Facebook Puts Some Brains In Open Vault JBOD Storage

Timonthy Prickett Morgam | The Register | January 22, 2013

At last week's Open Compute Summit 2013, the people behind the open source hardware project were showing off some enhancements for the Open Vault JBOD storage array that Facebook has cooked up for its own use in its two newest data centers and presumably will be added to its existing data center. Read More »

Facebook Shatters The Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces

Cade Metz | Wired | January 16, 2013

As the man at the center of Facebook’s Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the last two years rethinking the very essence of the computer hardware that runs the company’s massive social network — and sharing his ever-evolving data center ideology with the rest of the tech world. He’s a kind of hardware philosopher. And now he looks like one too. Read More »

Facebook, Intel, And AMD Bring More Resources To Open Compute Project

Rachel King | ZDNet | January 16, 2013

Facebook, Intel, and AMD are just a few of the Silicon Valley heavyweights bringing more to the open hardware table for the Open Compute Project. Read More »

Inside Facebook's Fantastic Plan To Dominate Cisco's $23 Billion Market

Julie Bort | Business Insider | June 2, 2013

Hands down, one of the most important tech projects Facebook has ever created is the Open Compute Project (OCP). Business Insider recently spoke with two of Facebook's OCP leaders to get the skinny on their latest, ambitious plan. Read More »

Open Compute Pushes GPL-Like License For 'Open Source Hardware'

Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld | January 29, 2014

Facebook's open hardware effort adopts 'prescriptive' license requiring altered designs to be contributed back to foundation when sold Read More »

Open Compute Summit: New Members, Technologies

Chris Talbot | Talkin' Cloud | January 18, 2013

The Open Compute Project, backed by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), is gaining momentum, as evidenced by the increasing attendance at the Open Compute Summit. [...] There has been a bit of buzz about some of the innovations unveiled at the show, and this can only mean good things for the open source cloud computing market. Read More »

Open Compute: Momentum Builds For Open Hardware

Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | January 16, 2013

Perhaps the best sign of the progress made by the Open Compute Project is that companies as diverse as Rackspace Hosting, Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs are all running servers based on these “open hardware” designs in their data centers. Read More »

Open Compute: Rackspace Designs Own Servers Using Open-Source Facebook Specs

Yevgeniy Sverdlik | DatacenterDynamics | January 17, 2013

Rackspace, one of the world’s largest hosting and cloud-infrastructure providers, is on its way to becoming the first company of a kind other than the web giants of Google’s and Facebook’s caliber to stray away from buying servers and storage gear from traditional IT vendors – such as HP or Dell – choosing instead to design its own gear and use the same manufacturers those traditional vendors use to make it. Read More »

Open Compute: The Perks Of Converged Infrastructure, No Proprietary B.S. | #OCPSummit

Valentina Craft | Silicon Angle | February 4, 2014

The fifth edition of the Open Compute Project Summit took place on January 28 and 29 in San Jose, California. Day one kicked off with Frank Frankovsky’s opening remarks. The Chairman and President of OCP Foundation presented the “Open Compute Project: 2014 and Beyond”, explaining to the audience what the event is going to focus on and what to expect from the following speakers. Read More »

Quanta Launches Open Compute Solutions, Including Open Rack

Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | October 24, 2013

For years, Quanta Computer has been building servers for Facebook and Rackspace based on design concepts advanced by the Open Compute Project (OCP). Today Quanta QCT launched a line of hardware products making those Open Compute designs available to a broader pool of customers.

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Why Open Source Hardware Is No Oxymoron

Cade Metz | Wired | January 24, 2013

“It’s time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club,” said Jonathan Heiliger, “and demystify the way these things are built.” It was April 2011, and Heiliger — the man who oversaw all the hardware driving Facebook’s online empire — was announcing the creation of something Facebook called the Open Compute Project. Read More »

With Open Compute, Facebook Is Saving Billions And Moving Markets

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | January 31, 2014

Facebook might have launched the Open Compute Project to force server vendors to build higher-effiency gear, but it’s having a much greater impact than even Facebook anticipated. Read More »