{"id":13890,"date":"2018-11-21T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/11\/21\/news-7657\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:00:15","slug":"news-7657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/11\/21\/news-7657\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Leading OCP Adoption and Other Topics at the 2018 Open Compute Amsterdam Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Robert Bunger| Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:24:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opencompute.org\/news\/the-2018-ocp-european-regional-summit-by-the-numbers\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Open Compute Summit<\/a> in Amsterdam, I was impressed by its clear success and asked myself, \u201cWhat do the Europeans know that we don\u2019t here in the US?\u201d Attendance at the summit exceeded expectations, the engineering workshop breakouts on the second day were full, and as the exhibitions were breaking down, attendees were still there asking questions and learning. In comparison to what you typically see in the afternoon on the last day of a show, it was rather lively.<\/p>\n<p>I attribute this to Europe\u2019s keen focus on all things sustainable and emerging solutions like OCP that bring about the next wave of efficiency in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2018\/03\/28\/investment-banker-paints-rosy-picture-of-colocation-market-headed-into-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data center market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52964 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-621142710-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"team discussing a project around a laptop\" width=\"338\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-621142710-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-621142710-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-621142710-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>My Top Takeaways from the Open Compute Summit<\/h2>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t go, what did you miss? Here are a couple of my favorite topics:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liquid Cooling<\/strong>: I realize you might be rolling your eyes right now with the mention of this buzzword, but hey \u2013 at least I\u2019m not going on about blockchain! If you follow liquid cooling, you know that if feels more real now than ever.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Octave Klaba from OVH talked about the water-to-chip solution they have deployed since 2003. Yes \u2013 2003! This innovation has been quietly developing in the background supporting their hosting business.<\/li>\n<li>Peter Hopton from Iceotope presented on the EuroEXA High Performance Computing project, funded by the EU. The goal is to deploy 60MW of compute via 2MW liquid cooled ISO containers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OCP Ready Facilities<\/strong>: Within the <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.opencompute.org%2Fprojects%2Fdata-center-facility&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAndrea.Michel%40schneider-electric.com%7Cc563348b37a2423fe7e008d64f1e2d3a%7C6e51e1adc54b4b39b5980ffe9ae68fef%7C0%7C0%7C636783388353223045&amp;sdata=MQvTZQ%2BH6Z6a%2BCBEMjK120MtVfYG9GsUYDUJNUpZDfM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Center Facility project<\/a>, a group of people worked for over a year to document what was different about a facility that supports OCP racks. The culmination of the work has been published in a set of guidelines \u2013 educating readers on what to consider and giving an assessment checklist for colocation providers to apply for the OCP Ready program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KAO Data Centers and Rackspace piloted and recently launched their programs, respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The European partner structure:<\/strong> Where the US OCP market is set up to serve the hyperscale clients, Europe is preparing to server any size customer. Partners such as <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2F2crsi.com%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAndrea.Michel%40schneider-electric.com%7Cc563348b37a2423fe7e008d64f1e2d3a%7C6e51e1adc54b4b39b5980ffe9ae68fef%7C0%7C0%7C636783388353223045&amp;sdata=1V29ObdMh0FEEZ2FyjkNZuMMs2R%2B8Bl88QXMe4adFKU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2CRSI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircleb.eu%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAndrea.Michel%40schneider-electric.com%7Cc563348b37a2423fe7e008d64f1e2d3a%7C6e51e1adc54b4b39b5980ffe9ae68fef%7C0%7C0%7C636783388353223045&amp;sdata=Pqrr%2FmOlQmDPFnlWQAmIA7qbVPfGoTeoigC%2FtEO3j58%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Circle B<\/a> are currently providing OCP and OCP style solutions. This is quite a change from one to two years earlier when most were unaware of the technology.<\/p>\n<h2>OCP\u2019s Trajectory in the Data Center Market<\/h2>\n<p>Many people ask, \u201cIs OCP gear really being deployed outside of the big guys in Europe?\u201d The answer is yes. Not in big quantities, but yes. Will there be more? Likely. From what we have studied about the OCP &amp; similar architectures, the cost and efficiency benefits should prove out and more of these racks will make their way into the data center market.<\/p>\n<p>There were many other interesting topics at the Summit. More than I can write about here. The great thing is you can re-live the conversations and overall show experience digitally. Find <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.opencompute.org%2Fevents%2Fpast-summits&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAndrea.Michel%40schneider-electric.com%7Cc563348b37a2423fe7e008d64f1e2d3a%7C6e51e1adc54b4b39b5980ffe9ae68fef%7C0%7C0%7C636783388353223045&amp;sdata=bopzhGVVW5y18iNaQisIek1TEkzegH7jic9%2BDY8K5WI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all of the presentations and videos<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2018\/11\/21\/europes-leading-ocp-adoption-open-compute-amsterdam-summit\/\">Europe\u2019s Leading OCP Adoption and Other Topics at the 2018 Open Compute Amsterdam Summit<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2018\/11\/21\/europes-leading-ocp-adoption-open-compute-amsterdam-summit\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Robert Bunger| Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:24:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After attending the 2018 Open Compute Summit in Amsterdam, I was impressed by its clear success and asked myself, \u201cWhat do the Europeans know that we don\u2019t here in the&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2018\/11\/21\/europes-leading-ocp-adoption-open-compute-amsterdam-summit\/\" title=\"ReadEurope\u2019s Leading OCP Adoption and Other Topics at the 2018 Open Compute Amsterdam Summit\">Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2018\/11\/21\/europes-leading-ocp-adoption-open-compute-amsterdam-summit\/\">Europe\u2019s Leading OCP Adoption and Other Topics at the 2018 Open Compute Amsterdam Summit<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[12389,12388],"tags":[12390,12391,19955],"class_list":["post-13890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scadaics","category-schneider","tag-colocation","tag-data-center","tag-data-center-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}