Open Compute Project

Open Compute Project
Formation 2011
Type Industry trade group
Purpose Sharing designs of data center products
Website opencompute.org
Open Compute V2 Server
Open Compute V2 Drive Tray,
2nd lower tray extended

The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an organization that shares designs of data center products among companies, including Facebook, IBM, Intel, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Seagate Technology, Dell, Rackspace, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Alibaba Group.[1][2]

The Open Compute Project's mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing. "We believe that openly sharing ideas and specifications is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing operational complexity in the scalable computing space."[3]

All Facebook data centers are 100% OCP.[4]

Details

The initiative was announced in April 2011 by Jonathan Heiliger[5] at Facebook to openly share designs of data center products.[6] The effort came out of a redesign of Facebook's data center in Prineville, Oregon.[7] After two years, with regards to a more modular server design, it was admitted that "the new design is still a long way from live data centers".[8] However, some aspects published were used in the Prineville center to improve energy efficiency, as measured by the power usage effectiveness index defined by The Green Grid.[9]

The Open Compute Project Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit incorporated in the state of Delaware. Rocky Bullock serves as the Foundation's CEO. As of April 2018, there are 7 members who serve on the board of directors which is made up of one individual member and six organizational members. Mark Roenigk (Facebook) is the Foundation's president and chairman. Andy Bechtolsheim is the individual member. In addition to Mark Roenigk who represents Facebook, other organizations on the Open Compute board of directors include Intel (Jason Waxman), Goldman Sachs (Joshua Matheus), Rackspace (Brian Stein), and Microsoft (Bill Laing).[10]

A current list of members can be found here

Components of the Open Compute Project include:

Several generations of server designs have been deployed: Freedom (Intel), Spitfire (AMD), Windmill (Intel E5-2600), Watermark (AMD), Winterfell (Intel E5-2600 v2) and Leopard (Intel E5-2600 v3)[12][13]

  • Open Vault storage building blocks offer high disk densities, with 30 drives in a 2U Open Rack chassis designed for easy disk drive replacement. The 3.5 inch disks are stored in two drawers, five across and three deep in each drawer, with connections via serial attached SCSI.[14] This storage is also called Knox, and there is also a cold storage variant where idle disks power down to reduce energy consumption.[15] Another design concept was contributed by Hyve Solutions, a division of Synnex in 2012.[16][17]
    At the OCP Summit 2016 Facebook together with Taiwanese ODM Wistron's spin-off Wiwynn introduced Lightning, a flexible NVMe JBOF (just a bunch of flash), based on the existing Open Vault (Knox) design.[18][19]
  • Mechanical mounting system: Open racks have the same outside width (600 mm) and depth as standard 19-inch racks, but are designed to mount wider chassis with a 537 mm width (about 21 inches). This allows more equipment to fit in the same volume and improves air flow. Compute chassis sizes are defined in multiples of an OpenU, which is 48 mm, slightly larger than the typical rack unit.
  • Data center designs for energy efficiency, include 277 VAC power distribution that eliminates one transformer stage in typical data centers. A single voltage (12.5 VDC) power supply designed to work with 277 VAC input and 48 VDC battery backup.[9]
  • On May 8, 2013, an effort to define an open network switch was announced.[20] The plan was to allow Facebook to load its own operating system software onto the switch. Press reports predicted that more expensive and higher-performance switches would continue to be popular, while less expensive products treated more like a commodity (using the buzzword "top-of-rack") might adopt the proposal.[21]
    A similar project for a custom switch for the Google platform had been rumored, and evolved to use the OpenFlow protocol.[22][23]
    The first switch open-sourced by Facebook was designed together with Taiwanese ODM Accton using Broadcom Trident II chip and is called Wedge, the Linux OS that it runs is called FBOSS.[24][25] Later switch contributions include "6-pack" and Wedge-100, based on Broadcom Tomahawk chips.[26] Similar switch hardware designs have been contributed by: Edge-Core Networks Corporation (Accton spin-off), Mellanox Technologies, Interface Masters Technologies, Agema Systems.[27] Capable of running ONIE-compatible operating systems such as Cumulus Linux, Big Switch or Pica8.[28]

Litigation

In March, 2015,[29] BladeRoom Group Limited and Bripco (UK) Limited sued Facebook, Emerson Electric Co. and others alleging that Facebook has disclosed BladeRoom and Bripco's trade secrets for prefabricated data centers in the Open Compute Project.[30] Facebook petitioned for the lawsuit to be dismissed,[31] but this was rejected in 2017.[32]

Providers

The promoted vendors include:[33]

  • ColorChip
  • Circle B
  • Cumulus Networks
  • Edgecore Networks
  • Fusionstor
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Hyve Solutions
  • Inspur
  • Penguin Computing
  • Radisys
  • Wiwynn
  • QCT
  • XCloud Networks

See also

Case Studies

* Game publisher builds a cost-efficient, scalable data center and reduces operational complexities with OCP.

  1. ↑ "How Facebook Changed the Basic Tech That Runs the Internet". 11 Apr 2015.
  2. ↑ "Incubation Committee". Open Compute. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  3. ↑ "Mission and Principles". Open Compute. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  4. ↑ Weinberger, Matt (January 25, 2016). "Facebook's newest data center is going to make some big tech companies very nervous". Open Compute. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  5. ↑ Heiliger, Jonathan (2015-06-15). "Why I Started the Open Compute Project". Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Miller, Rich (April 14, 2011). "Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market?". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  7. ↑ Heiliger, Jonathan (April 7, 2011). "Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project". Facebook Engineering's notes. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  8. ↑ Metz, Cade (January 16, 2013). "Facebook Shatters the Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces". Wired. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  9. 1 2 Michael, Amir (February 15, 2012). "Facebook's Open Compute Project". Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium. Stanford University. (video archive)
  10. ↑ "Organization and Board". Open Compute. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  11. ↑ Schnell, Tom (January 16, 2013). "ARM Server Motherboard Design for Open Vault Chassis Hardware v0.3 MB-draco-hesperides-0.3" (PDF). Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  12. ↑ Data Center Knowledge (April 28, 2016). "Guide to Facebook's Open Source Data Center Hardware". Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  13. ↑ Register, The (January 17, 2013). "Facebook rolls out new web and database server designs". Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  14. ↑ Mike Yan and Jon Ehlen (January 16, 2013). "Open Vault Storage Hardware V0.7 OR-draco-bueana-0.7" (PDF). Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Under the hood: Facebook's cold storage system". May 4, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Hyve Solutions Contributes Storage Design Concept to OCP Community". News release. January 17, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  17. ↑ Malone, Conor (January 15, 2012). "Torpedo Design Concept Storage Server for Open Rack Hardware v0.3 ST-draco-chimera-0.3" (PDF). Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  18. ↑ Petersen, Chris (March 9, 2016). "Introducing Lightning: A flexible NVMe JBOF". Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Wiwynn Showcases All-Flash Storage Product with Leading-edge NVMe Technology". March 9, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  20. ↑ Jay Hauser for Frank Frankovsky (May 8, 2013). "Up next for the Open Compute Project: The Network". Open Compute blog. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  21. ↑ Chernicoff, David (May 9, 2013). "Can Open Compute change network switching?". ZDNet. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  22. ↑ Metz, Cade (May 8, 2013). "Facebook Rattles Networking World With 'Open Source' Gear". Wired. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  23. ↑ Levy, Steven (April 17, 2012). "Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking". Wired. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  24. ↑ "Introducing "Wedge" and "FBOSS," the next steps toward a disaggregated network". Meet the engineers who code Facebook. June 18, 2014. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  25. ↑ "Facebook Open Switching System ("FBOSS") and Wedge in the open". Meet the engineers who code Facebook. March 10, 2015. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  26. ↑ "Opening designs for 6-pack and Wedge 100". Meet the engineers who code Facebook. March 9, 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  27. ↑ "Accepted or shared hardware specifications". Open Compute. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  28. ↑ "Current Network Operating System (NOS) List". Open Compute. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  29. ↑ "BladeRoom Group Limited et al v. Facebook, Inc". Justia. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  30. ↑ "ORDER granting in part and denying in part 128 Motion to Dismiss". Justia. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  31. ↑ Greene, Kat (10 May 2016). "Facebook Wants Data Center Trade Secrets Suit Tossed". Law360. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  32. ↑ SVERDLIK, YEVGENIY (17 February 2017). "Court Throws Out Facebook's Motion to Dismiss Data Center Design Lawsuit". Data center Knowledge. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  33. ↑ open compute project solution providers
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