Established in 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) is a global community of engineers and technology thought leaders. Their mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing.
As we look to the future, we see an increasing demand for heterogenous and disaggregated solutions. Now more than ever, it is important for the ecosystem to come together to reimagine hardware and its ability to address this growing complexity with sustainable, secure and manageable practices.
There are currently 12 project groups and key sub-projects that individuals and organizations can participate in to develop and share designs of data center products and best practices among the companies within OCP. Although OCP continues to cover all aspects of modular hardware design—compute, storage, switches, accelerators and racks, there is a need for more forward-looking initiatives, such as open hardware, chiplets, cooling and software solutions for broad community collaboration. These measures will accelerate innovation and enable scale through ecosystem adoption. These changes in the computation landscape have led to new community-led workstreams that will shape our next decade.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Weekly is the Hyperscale Strategy and Execution at Intel Corporation, and the Vice President, General Manager, Senior Principal Engineer and OCP Foundation Board Chair. Weekly leads the organization that influences every aspect of Intel’s cloud platform solutions. Together they shape Intel’s development, production, and business strategy for Hyperscale Cloud Service Providers by driving strategic collaborations with key partners to ensure platform requirements meet customer needs. Weekly is an Open Compute Project board member and is on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list of most influential people in technology. In her spare time, she is the lead singer of the funk and soul band, Sinister Dexter, and enjoys her passion of dance and choreography. She has two amazing little boys, and loves to run (after them, and on her own). Weekly graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
