Partners in the Open Compute project include AMD, Dell, HP, Intel, Power-One, Rackspace, Skype and Zynga.
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Research energy efficiency and the open sharing of that technology through the Open Compute Project.
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Therefore, the Open Compute Project will be worth at least a review by enterprise IT.
Facebook and its Open Compute Project partners have just unveiled plans to loosen things up at the datacenter.
Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs are evaluating AMD Open 3.0 as part of their collaboration on the Open Compute Project.
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Facebook has released its Open Compute Project, essentially open sourcing its hardware and data center specs, eWeek reports.
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The Open Compute project in partnership with other tech companies will make much of what Facebook custom-built for itself open.
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Rackspace Hosting has also been working on the Open Compute project and is looking at using its elements for its own business.
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The Open Compute Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.
The Open Compute Project was the result of an activity at Facebook to build the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
Developments like those of Backblaze and the Open Compute Project are re-defining the possibilities of enterprise infrastructure and will likely find homes in more and more data centers.
The Open Compute Summit and the Open Compute Project it showcased is about much more than just giving Facebook and other social media giants like them a lower cost IT floor.
"We became involved with the Open Compute Project very early as we saw a pervasive demand for simplified, energy efficient servers, " said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, corporate vice president and general manager, Server, AMD.
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The Open Compute Project storage page also references Fusion-IO PCIe storage cards with up to 3.2 TB of storage capacity, which are used by Facebook to speed up overall storage system performance.
"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"We have eagerly awaited the AMD Open 3.0 platform as it brings the benefits and spirit of the Open Compute Project to a much wider set of customers, " said Charles Wuischpard, CEO, Penguin Computing.
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