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The Open Compute Project (OCP), a computer engineering project launched in 2011 to create better datacenter hardware by sharing designs and ideas between its members, has announced the next stage of its project.

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"Over the last 10 years, significant advancements have been made in open compute standards with the formation of multiple working groups delivering over 350 collaborations," said Rebecca Weekly, chair of OCP and senior director of hyperscale Strategy and Execution at Intel.

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Weekly's stated goals for OCP 2.0 remain largely the same as the original purpose, including modularity, scalability, sustainability, and the ability to integrate across the stack. OCP also plans to "seed" innovation in optics, open silicon, AI, and cooling.

"While OCP continues to cover all aspects of modular hardware design compute, storage, switches, accelerators, and racks, there has been growing interest in forward-looking initiatives such as open hardware, chiplets, cooling and software solutions for broad community collaboration, to accelerate innovation and enable scale through ecosystem adoption," says Weekly.

OCP set out its seed plans as:

The open computing community includes the entire supply chain, from tech and data center equipment vendors, to cloud and communications companies, enterprises, system integrators and semiconductor manufacturers.

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Since it was formed out of a Facebook engineering project, OCP has gradually gained industry momentum. Besides its founding members Facebook, Intel and Rackspace and Goldman Sachs, Google Cloudjoined OCP in 2016, and Chinesecloud giant Alibabajoined in 2017.

Retail giant Target, a one-time AWS customer,joined OCP this yearwith contributions around edge-computing hardware. Microsoft uses OCP specs in its Azure cloud, while Google contributed a 48V power distribution rack so it can use OCP technology in its data center.

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Datacenter tech: Here's where the Open Compute Project is going next - ZDNet