Some of their genetic information will become public this fall, and then Church will open the project to many thousands of participants.
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.
The Open Compute Project was the result of an activity at Facebook to build the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.
They build on actions such as the Open Government Directive, the Digital Government Strategy, and, most recently, the Open Data Initiatives project, which is bringing the benefits of open data to a wide range of domains including health, energy, education, public safety, finance, and global development.
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Research energy efficiency and the open sharing of that technology through the Open Compute Project.
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Wozniak wanted to open the whole project up to all-comers.
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Unlike crowdsourcing, which asks crowds to contribute to a single project, open sourcing puts the project in their hands.
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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 Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.
But he also acknowledged that the owners would be open to selling the project if the price were high enough.
"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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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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"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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An exhibition about the West Yorkshire part of the project is open at the Cedar Court Hotel in Wakefield until 16:00 GMT.
He led the development of the Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive that seeks to gather information about every book ever published in one place.
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Partners in the Open Compute project include AMD, Dell, HP, Intel, Power-One, Rackspace, Skype and Zynga.
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Therefore, the Open Compute Project will be worth at least a review by enterprise IT.
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 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.
Yep, that sounds about right -- and Adobe goes on to point out that the Open Screen Project is bringing Flash to all sorts of other devices.
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"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.
As part of the Open Screen Project, which should be getting Adobe Flash onto many new platforms, Adobe, NVIDIA and Broadcom are all hard at work getting GPU acceleration to do what it ought for Flash Player, with improvements in store for everything from Tegra MIDs to Broadcom Crystal HD netbooks (like HP's new Mini 110XP, pictured) to tablets and beyond.
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The site is the largest open regeneration project in Europe and could create up to 9, 000 jobs immediately, according to the HRADF.
Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.
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The High Mill Open Gallery Project will see essential conservation work carried out to preserve the High Mill and adjoining Glazed Alley, which are currently derelict and on the Buildings at Risk Register.
Intel also believes in the power of collaboration to power the green movement: The company announced its own open-source environmental project at the Intel Developer Forum last week.
An ARM add-on is in development but, since the entire project is open source, anyone with the appropriate skill level is free to take a stab at creating their own add-ons.
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