Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

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1. The Open Compute Project is looking deeper into green data centres, from storage to systems management If Facebook officials have their way, their Open Compute Project will go beyond servers and power supplies, touching on every aspect of a data centre’s infrastructure. The initiative kicked off in April when Facebook open-sourced the server and data centre specifications the social networking giant employed in building its data centre in Prineville in Oregon. The project has since enrolled an impressive array of members, from Intel, Asus and Rackspace to Mellanox, Huawei and Red Hat, not to mention a few research and education institutions. Spreading the initiative It is an indication of the various directions in which the project is rapidly moving, Amir Michael, hardware design manager at Facebook, said in an interview with eWEEK during the recently concluded SC 11 supercomputing show in Seattle. Facebook is already moving forward with the ... (Read Full Article)

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