Facebook open sources data centers
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:33 am
http://opencompute.org/
At first I didn't post it because... well, I didn't see anything too revolutionary, however, I realized not everyone might have seen something like this and I have been in a TON of datacenters that were really poorly designed. I very much agree with this statement:
As a small update, here is a photo tour of their Pineville facility.
We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.
We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up.
The result is a data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers.
But we didn't want to keep it all for ourselves. Instead, we decided to collaborate with the entire industry and create the Open Compute Project, to share these technologies as they evolve.
At first I didn't post it because... well, I didn't see anything too revolutionary, however, I realized not everyone might have seen something like this and I have been in a TON of datacenters that were really poorly designed. I very much agree with this statement:
VERY true. Very happy to see thisFacebook's head of operations Jonathan Heiliger is right to suggest: "It's time to stop treating data centers like Fight Club."
As a small update, here is a photo tour of their Pineville facility.
They usually use 48V (or sometimes 24V) DC.