The third Open Compute Summit was our first two-day event, and it featured a stellar lineup of speakers, announcements, demonstrations, booths, and networking opportunities. And, perhaps more importantly, we devoted even more time at the summit to working together on rapidly progressing projects like Open Rack, Open Hardware Management, Virtual IO, Storage, and Motherboards. We had a great time in San Antonio!
The summit was sponsored by these organizations.
Schedule
- May 2, 2012
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
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Keynote address from Frank Frankovsky (Facebook, Open Compute Project Foundation), with an introduction by Lew Moorman (Rackspace) videoODM/OEM and Systems Provider Panel, led by Jason Waxman (Intel) with Mike Yang (Quanta), Steve Ichinaga (Hyve), Casey Cerretani (ZT Systems) and Sohrab Modi (Huawei) videoJim Elliot (Samsung Semiconductor) videoDon Duet (Goldman Sachs, Open Compute Project Foundation board member) videoFrank Frankovsky closing the morning session video
- Sponsor Presentations
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Bob Ogrey (AMD) on Roadrunner and AMD's OCP involvement videoForrest Norrod (Dell VP of Server Division) on designing systems for scale computing and Dell's Open Rack videoGlenn Keels (Hewlett Packard director of Hyperscale Computing) shows HP's Open Rack videoRaejeanne Skillern (Intel) on Decathlete and Intel's OCP involvement videoMike Yang (Quanta) on Quanta's OCP hardware videoBrent Miller (ZT Systems) on ZT Systems' OCP efforts video
- 12:00pm - 2:00pm
- Lunch and Exhibit Floor
- 2:00pm - 5:00pm
- Technical workshops (round 1), open sessions, and educational sessions
Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista Networks) leads a panel on the importance of cloud computing from perspectives of both users and vendors; panel includes Forrest Norrod (Dell Server Division VP), Eric Chen (Tencent), Glenn Keels (HP) and Keith Shinn (Fidelity) videoBill Weihl (Facebook) leads a panel on taking energy efficiency to scale; panel includes Jonathan Koomey (Stanford), Stefan Garrard (BP), Melissa Gray (Rackspace) and Winston Saunders (Intel) videoTS Khurana (Facebook) on Demystifying the Infrastructure Supply Chain videoRachel Peterson (Facebook) on the data center site selection process video
- 5:00pm - 6:00pm
- Travel to party venue
- 6:00pm - 10:00pm
- Open Compute Party
- May 3, 2012
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Technical workshops (round 2) and open sessions
- 12:00pm - 2:00pm
- Lunch and Exhibit Floor
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Plenary: a synthesis of each workshop and next steps
Open Compute Projects Technical Workshops
- Open Rack
- Mechanical design and modular power distribution slides
- Motherboards
- Settings new standards in efficiency and performance slides
- Storage
- New Hardware and building for the 100 year standard slides
- Virtual IO
- Pushing the limits of connectivity, software and hardware modularity slides, meeting notes, going forward
- Systems Management
- Defining open systems management for the enterprise
- Datacenter Design
- New initiatives; building for different geographies slides
Additionally, running in parallel to the technical workshops there will be a series of Open Sessions ---these will be a combination of informative sessions educating people on how the OCP has enabled the ecosystem to both adopt and contribute to the technology stack and how to think about web-scale technology design at scale.