slide deck from the Copenhagen Data Centre Forum.
Video of this presentation is available at
https://datacenter-forum.com/video/changing-the-concept-of-what-a-datacenter-is
4. What is OCP ?
The Open Compute Project Foundation is a non profit open
source hardware community which since its formation in 2011
has been disrupting the 20th Century Data Century Industry
www.opencompute.org
5. Incubation Committee
Nine OCP Projects & Technologies
StorageData Centre Open RackServer
Networking
HPC
HW Mgmt. InteroperabilityTelco
Project Leads
6. Member makes a
contribution
Including technical
documents
Reviewed by
community
Voted by incubation
committee
Posted on
opencompute.org
Available to the
public
Technology Contribution Process
7. OCP Technology Principles
Scale out - Tool-less design, OCP compliant management
tools and documentation
Openness - Open Source, Open Interface, OCP
Compatible
Efficiency - performance, cost, conversion & cooling
Impact - Efficiency gains, new technology,
leverage/empower prior contributions and enhance supply
chain
13. OCP membership growth spurt
2011 to 2015 ………grew to 88 members
and back then community membership was free
2016 to now ………..grew to 200+ members
so what’s happening now? ..........
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16. Open Collaborative Commons & End of Patents
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“Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our
Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have
been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the
advancement of electric vehicle technology.”
Elon Musk 2014
:
open source collaborative communities innovate more and
develop products and solutions faster than
closed secretive groups
23. 20th Century Dross removed by OCP :
2 x TOR Switches
4 x Pluggable optics
86 x PSU’s
208 x 40mm Fans
4 x AC Power Strips
86 x IEC rear power cords
120 x RJ45 rear patch cords
N+1 CRAC units
Access Floor
Cables in floor
24. What does OCP kill in Data Centres ?
Centralised UPS and Batteries and those rooms that house them
Access Floors
Intelligent Power Strips
Tools
Power Supply Units in ICT gear
20th Century Stupidity
Complexity
Hardware redundancy
Support Technicians
Money, energy and material waste
Low quality – open source provides better products
Proprietary hardware and user lock-in
25. Resetting Intuitive Mindsets
Why 19 inch racks ?
Why cabling interfaces on the rear of servers ?
Why access false floors in computer rooms ?
Why tight control on relative humidity and temperature ?
Why centralised UPS and battery rooms and mechanical chillers ?
Why rapid break fix and hardware redundancy ?
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48. OCP Cost Savings
Energy
CERN analysis showed OCP servers using 29% less energy
Data Centre PUE’’s better than 1.1
Annual UK electricity savings >£5,000 per 40 server rack
CAPX
AT&T openCORD adoption showing 50% to 70% CAPX reductions in ICT gear
Data Centre Facility build & fit out reduced by up to 75%
OPEX
OTTs achieve one technician to 25,000 physical OCP server nodes
Highly automated - no rapid break fix required
See Yahoo Japan replacement/fix times video all less than 180 seconds
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For more information ask
John Laban
European Representative
OCP Foundation
+44 7710 124487
john.laban@opencompute.org
@rumperedis
Website www.opencompute.org/
Wiki www.opencompute.org/wiki
Mailing Lists www.opencompute.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists
Notes de l'éditeur
Ask me afterwards for more details about OCP and getting involved in the community
Crossing the chasm
Read this book about disruptive technologies and their dispersion into the market place
OCP joint founder Frank F.
Embedded Youtube video in slide.
Read about patents and the collaborative commons in book the zero marginal cost society.
Read academic studies on development of sewing machines and how the introduction of patents slowed innovation.
See The Case Against Patents https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf
To understand the broad trends for data centres and the global macro economics read these books
The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin
And
The Big Switch by N.Carr
See IDC report for growth through to 2020
Based on 40 traditional one u servers in rack compared to the OCP equivalent
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
OCP wide uses cabinet allows 25% increase in in HDDs .
See the OCP third width servers.
Open Vault (old name Knox) offers high disk densities, holding 30 drives in a 2U chassis.
Increasing rail widths does not increase overall width of rack so they would still fit a 2ft floor grid
http://www.opencompute.org/blog/introducing-the-open-rack/
or perhaps 19inches is related to bee hives
Fan Cube Law …halving the fan speed uses one eight the power.
Remember to include the fans in the dual power supply units.
Fan Cube Law …halving the fan speed uses one eight the power.
Remember to include the fans in the dual power supply units.
This is not an OCP heat sink
Water cooled mainframes require access floor voids for water cooling pipes.
Water leaks from above makes $4 million mainframe go pop!
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
Man is nothing without his tools …a famous quote by philosopher Thomas Caryle
Tool-less gear in white space …wow no screw drivers!!
See those green touch points.
A complete novice removes and reinstalls HDD from an OCP storage tray.
A different approach to resilience @scale when using combination of software and hardware.
This is emphasised in Ken Pratchet video.
One needs to consider costs holistically.
OCP gear significantly impacts capx and opex costs for data centre eco systems. e.g. No centralised UPS, Chillers, Access floors, copper permanent link comms cables, intelligent rear mounted power strips, …………
One also needs to consider the smaller space footprints that result in no centralised UPS and battery rooms and all the associated fire, colling and other subsystems that are no longer required.
https://youtu.be/g6sycjhpD4I
The Kubler-Ross Change Curve describes the emotional turmoil a .person goes through when someone close to them dies
OCP is a disruptive open source data centre hardware technology. OCP gear kills peoples 20th century technology babies/children.