Facebook-Led Open Compute Project Plans The Future Of The Data Center

Jim Rapoza , November 08, 2011 There’s a new open source project--led by giant companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Dell--that is looking to change data center hardware in the same way that traditional open source projects have impacted software.
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There is also an Intel mother board built to Open Compute server specs. It is a dual Xeon 5500 or Xeon 5600 socket motherboard with 18 DIMM slots.


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