From the racks to the roof, the Open Compute Project “OCP” is trying to break the mold to improve and redesign everything we take for granted as “industry standard” in the data center world. In a continuing effort to use open source community thinking to effect changes to the server hardware, design of the racks and even the building itself, in much the same way Linux community of developers changed the paradigm in the software realm. On October 27th OCP held their second Summit in New York City. In fact, Red Hat was there and formally announced they were joining and would be contributing to the OCP.
The morning presentation was given a large room and was standing room only. The audience was given a two hour long series of presentations led by Frank Frankosky Director, Technical Operations at Facebook and also chairman of OCP. While OCP was started by Facebook, it has an interesting and diverse board of directors, all of whom gave a presentation