{"id":1305,"date":"2020-11-10T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/be-ireland.info\/\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2020-12-14T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:00:02","slug":"open-compute-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/be-ireland.info\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Open Compute Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1305\" class=\"elementor elementor-1305\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dc06718 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"dc06718\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-47e87ad\" data-id=\"47e87ad\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c1954b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2c1954b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Open Compute Project Hacks 20th Century Data Centre Power Systems\n<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8ac5436 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" 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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">John Laban European Representative, The Open Compute Project Foundation provides us with a glimpse of key principles of OCP including: energy efficiency, simplicity and vanity servers.<br><\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-91cd36e\" data-id=\"91cd36e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-335822f elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"335822f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"946\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/be-ireland.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/OCPJpg.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1306\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/be-ireland.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/OCPJpg.jpg 946w, https:\/\/be-ireland.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/OCPJpg-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/be-ireland.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/OCPJpg-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6d1b388\" data-id=\"6d1b388\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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servers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46b8269 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"46b8269\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-31a785c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"31a785c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a237fc8\" data-id=\"a237fc8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9187bce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9187bce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 2011, Facebook shared its designs with the public and\u2014along with Intel and Rackspace, Goldman Sachs and Andy Bechtolsheim\u2014launched the Open Compute Project and incorporated the Open Compute Project Foundation. The five members hoped to create a movement in the hardware space that would bring about the same kind of creativity and collaboration we see in open source software. And that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening.<\/p><p>From the very beginnings OCP gear started to permeate into the large North America banks like Goldman Sachs and Fidelity. 90% of the servers Goldman Sachs buys today are OCP servers.<\/p><p>OCP data centres strive for simplicity. e.g. Facebook data centres worldwide house tens of thousands of OCP racks and millions of OCP servers yet only has seven different rack configurations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>The OCP Foundation is effectively doing for open source hardware what the Linux Foundation (started in 2000) has done for open source software. Today Linux is used on over 90% of the world\u2019s servers and what\u2019s interesting is that OCP hardware adoption seems to be following a similar growth trend.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>John Laban European Representative, The Open Compute Project Foundation provides us with a glimpse of key principles of OCP including: energy efficiency, simplicity and vanity servers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2b3db4 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"e2b3db4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" 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