[LINK] Open Compute - Facebook "Open Sources" Data Centres and Servers

Philip Argy pargy at argystar.com
Fri Apr 8 07:15:26 AEST 2011


I watched the livestream and it was actually quite impressive.

Philip

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<comment>
Interesting move by Facebook. They already give back a lot of their software
(http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/) but now the physical
infrastructure is out there as well. Clearly they see more value in
community improvements than in keeping it under wraps as a competitive
advantage (ala Google). 
</comment>

http://opencompute.org

"Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure

We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big
goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the
lowest possible cost.

We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom
designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the
ground up.

The result is a data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more
efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other
state-of-the-art data centers.

But we didn't want to keep it all for ourselves. Instead, we decided to
collaborate with the entire industry and create the Open Compute Project, to
share these technologies as they evolve."
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