Open Compute Project

Open Compute Project is an initiative announced in April 2011 by Facebook to openly share custom data center designs to improve efficiency across the industry.^[1]

References

^ Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project, by Jonathan Heiliger, 07 April 2011, Facebook Engineering's notes

External links

Open Compute Project website
M. G. Siegler (7 April 2011). "Facebook’s “Open Compute Project”: Their Server/Datacenter Expertise Now Open To All". http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/07/open-compute-project/.
"Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market". http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/14/will-open-compute-alter-the-data-center-market/.