Open Compute Project is an initiative announced in April 2011 by Facebook to openly share custom data center designs to improve efficiency across the industry.[1] [2] Component of the Open Compute initiative include low cost, minimalist designs for:
- Server compute nodes, including one for Intel processors and one for AMD processors
- Open Vault storage building blocks offering high disk densities, with 30 drives in a 2U Open Rack chassis designed easy drive replacement
- A single voltage (12.5 VDC) power supply designed to work with 277 VAC input and 48 VDC battery backup.
- Open Rack mechanical mounting system
- Open racks have the same outside width (600 mm) and depth as standard 19 inch racks, but are designed to mount wider chassis with a 537mm width (about 21 inches) This allows more equipment to fit in the same volume and improves air flow. Compute chassis sizes are defined in multiples of an OpenU, which is 48 mm.
- Data center designs for improve energy efficiency, including 277 VAC power distribution that eliminate one transformer stage in typical data centers.
References
- ^ Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project, by Jonathan Heiliger, 07 April 2011, Facebook Engineering's notes
- ^ "Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market".
External links
- Open Compute Project website
- Facebook's Open Compute Project - technical talk by Facebook engineer Amir Michael at Stanford University (video archive)
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