The document discusses how the Open Compute Project (OCP) is disrupting and transforming data centers by removing outdated and proprietary components ("20th century dross") and simplifying designs. Some key changes enabled by OCP include replacing traditional 19-inch racks and cabling on server rear with more open designs, eliminating unnecessary items like access floors and centralized UPS rooms, and advocating for resilience through software solutions rather than hardware redundancy. The adoption of OCP designs and components could significantly reduce costs, waste, and complexity in data centers.
5. 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
12. Disruptions from a five year
duration OCP earthquake
in a single rack with 40 servers
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
13. 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
14. Discrediting 20th Century Data Centres
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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43. 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
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44. Incubation Committee
Nine OCP Projects & Technologies
StorageData Centre Open RackServer
Networking
HPC
HW Mgmt. InteroperabilityTelco
Project Leads
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45. 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, simplicity and new technology,
leverage/empower prior contributions and enhance supply
chain
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46. Website - http://www.opencompute.org/
Wiki - http://www.opencompute.org/wiki
Mailing Lists - http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists
OCP Web Links and more information
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Ask
John Laban
+44 7710 124487
john.laban@opencompute.org
@rumperedis
Must be seen to be green because Johns wife is the Sustainability strategic planner for the City of London Square Mile!!
And thanks to you all for coming and taking part because talking to an empty room is not so much fun !
I always try to make my audiences laugh out loud at least once.
My favourite standup comedian is Stewart Lee, watch him on YouTube
Had my eureka OCP moment when working at the Facebook data centre in Lulea Sweden.
My mission is to tell the data centre industry about OCP solutions and be a Reset Catalyst to move the 20th century data centre industry into the 21st century.
Ask me afterwards for more details about OCP and getting involved in the community
Cartoon representation of simplicity and complexity. Thanks to XKCD for ink drawings throughout these slides.
Thanks to XKCD for ink drawings throughout these slides. Please by stuff from him as a thankyou
Not for profit use by John Laban and also to promote my favourite cartoonist
https://xkcd.com/910/
OCP joint founder Frank F.
Embedded Youtube video in slide.
Lets look at some company share price trends.. preparing the audience for graphs
Bloomburg share price trend for proprietary hardware and open hardware vendor.
Patent Pools a habit of declining vendors in the ICT space.
See the case against Patents.
No Patents on Tesla Motors
Patent Pools a habit of declining vendors in the ICT space.
See the case against Patents.
No Patents on Tesla Motors
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....
From the point of view of the 21st century what we did in the 20th century is lamentable and oh, oh, oh so wasteful and downright stupid.
19ich width great for telegraph and railway electromechanical relays.
Show of hands …how many of you are fitting relays like these into your data centre computer room racks…yes a big no!
OCP wide uses cabinet allows 25% increase in in HDDs .
Width was more than optimising for 4inch wide HDD….see Amir email with reasons relating to the Freedom server.
See the OCP third width servers on display outside of this room.
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
See my “screws screws screws why we do the things we do” presentation from Data Centre Conference South at the Barbican in 2015.
This presentation takes it to a Monty Pyhonist level of ridiculous humour with candles and chickens. When people laugh there mindsets become malleable
Barbican presentation available on request from john.laban@jrlaban.com
OCP server value engineering
Cables on rear because started as a desk top PC before being placed in a rack on a shelf.
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
OCP server value engineering
Cables on rear because started as a desk top PC befor being placed in a rack on a shelf.
OCP v2 rack explainer video short
OCP v2 rack explainer video short by Menno at CircleB in Amsterdam Holland
Used for water pipes and not air cooling. Water pipes below so when they leaked the mainframe did not go pop!
Air buoyancy means its better practice to pour cool denser air down into warmer room, and not blow it up from the bottom.
Note printers and seat/desk positions for people in room.
Back then people did not use black racks!!!!
Paper curls and jams printers in computer room if wide range of humidity. Paper today still has an up and down and should be placed in printers the right way up.
3D graphic and next few slide provided by
OCP_US2015_KushagraVaid_Microsoft_Keynote_final.pdf
Available from John Laban or the OCP web site wiki and YouTube channel
LES uses Li-ion BBU (Battery Backup Unit) in white space rack/chassis
Tool-less gear in white space …wow no screw drivers!!
See those green touch points.
A different approach to resilience @scale when using combination of software and hardware
CE0 of a Black Box proprietary hardware solutions that lock-in the user and benefit the few at the expense of the majority
Acceptance of the death does not occur until one has been through the earlier emotions.
Reset Catalyst ….resetting peoples 20th century data centre mindsets so they can move on into the 21st century’s open source data centres
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser questions....
“Reset Catalyst” Nothing to do with resetting proprietary cisco catalyst switches
Get ready for a 21st century roller coaster bare knuckle ride at Data Centre World
I might be killing off your babies in the nest fifteen minutes!