Open Compute Summit Keynote Summary by Frank Frankovsky OCP Chairman/President

Frank Frankovsky is the executive vision for Open Compute Project and he has posted a summary of points he made in his keynote here.

Enabling Innovation Where It Matters

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 · Posted by Frank Frankovsky at 15:00 PM

It’s amazing how much can happen in a year. Last April, when we open sourced a set of server and data center designs under the name “Open Compute Project,” we weren’t sure what to expect. It was our hope that we could inspire the industry to be a little more open, a little more innovative, and a little more focused on energy efficiency.

Today, as more than 500 people converge on San Antonio for the third OCP Summit, I think we can safely say that we’ve already achieved much more than that. The momentum that has gathered behind the project – especially in the last six months – has been nothing short of amazing.

For you ADD people who won't be patient enough to read the whole post. The ending is one of the most interesting things to wake you up to what OCP is doing.

On the other side of the equation, we’ve started to see a convergence of voices among the consumers of this technology around where we think the industry would benefit from standardization and where we think the opportunities for innovation are. Open Rack and Project Scorpio are perfect examples of these consumer voices coming together and communicating their needs more clearly – and the new Open Rack designs debuting today from HP and Dell are perfect examples of the supplier community’s response to that emerging clarity.

Perhaps most importantly, though, is the industry’s decreasing focus on what OCP founding board member Andy Bechtolsheim calls “gratuitous differentiation” and its increasing focus on driving innovation where it matters. This is the work we have ahead of us in the coming months, as we pursue even greater advances and efficiencies in scale computing technology. It is no small task that we’ve set for ourselves – but as the last year has proven, we can accomplish anything if we work together in the open.

Frank is founding board member of the Open Compute Project.

GigaOm's post on Open Compute Project, 1 year perspective

GigaOm's Stacey Higgantbotham posts a 1 year perspective on the Open Compute Project.

Stacey is busy writing at the Open Compute Summit here in Austin.

And has put her post up.

Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

By Stacey Higginbotham May. 2, 2012, 7:45am PT No Comments

 

 
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It’s been a little more than a year sinceFacebook showed off it’s newly built servers and data center technologies for webscale computing. But at its third Open Compute Summit the social networking giant and other members of the recently formed Open Compute Project are adding new partners, showing off cool use cases and adding new technologies to the standard. And surprisingly, it’s being done in a way that will enable hardware vendors to hold onto some of their margins and still deliver some innovations.

Stacey closes with a perspective of watching what HP and Dell actually will do.

So viva cooperation! Although in this brave new world of webscale architecture, which Frankovsky thinks will influence high-performance computing and enterprise computing, it still remains to be seen how much relevance companies like Dell or HP will continue to have.

 

Dell Announces Scorpio Server Hardware at OCP

Forrest Norrod and Frank Frankovsky are the two Dell employees who founded DCS.

Forrest announced the new hardware, Scorpio for Open Rack.

Here is closer picture of the server.

HP announces Open Rack Hardware, Coyote at OCP

HP's Glen Keels announced the first HP Open Rack hardware code name Coyote.

Here is the server sitting on a half size Open Rack.

Open Rack standardizes on 21 inch width for OCP, obsoleting 19 inch standard

Frank Frankovsky is discussing the Open Rack Concept.

Here is a slide presented.  The main point is the obsolesence of 19 inch width.

Frank did his homework and has found the history of where 19 inch racks where established for rail switches.

Frank demonstrates thinking like a supply chain thinking with industrial engineering concepts.

And, has studied the issues in the data center operations.

Open Compute Project rallied a diverse group of companies to work on Open Rack.