Abstract
The Open Compute Project. OCP (http://www.opencompute.org/). was launched by Facebook in 2011 with the objective of building efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. The technologies are released as open hardware. with the goal to develop servers and data centres following the model traditionally associated with open source software projects. In 2013 CERN acquired a few OCP servers in order to compare performance and power consumption with standard hardware. The conclusions were that there are sufficient savings to motivate an attempt to procure a large scale installation. One objective is to evaluate if the OCP market is sufficiently mature and broad enough to meet the constraints of a public procurement. This paper summarizes this procurement. which started in September 2014 and involved the Request for information (RFI) to qualify bidders and Request for Tender (RFT).
Highlights
The Open Compute Project (OCP) was launched by Facebook in 2011 with the mission to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data centre hardware designs for scalable computing
Two OCP twin servers were acquired for testing and benchmarking
Based on the encouraging test results a larger procurement of OCP hardware started at the end of summer 2014 with the goal to attempt a public competitive tender for a medium-sized installation
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This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. Ser. 664 052004 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/664/5/052004) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more. Download details: IP Address: 137.138.93.202 This content was downloaded on 09/03/2016 at 08:30 Please note that terms and conditions apply. 21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2015) IOP Publishing. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 664 (2015) 052004 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/664/5/052004.
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