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Last Thursday a group of us from Dell attended and participated in the unveiling of Facebook’s Open Compute project.

Much the way open source software shares the code behind the software, the Open Compute project has been created to provide the specifications behind the servers and the data center.    By releasing these specs, Facebook is looking to promote the sharing of data center and server technology best practices across the industry.

Pre-Event

The unassuming entrance to Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters.

The Facebook wall.

Facebook headquarters at 8am. (nice monitors! 🙂

Words of wisdom on the wall.

The Event

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg kicks off the Open Compute event.

The panel moderated by Om Malik that closed the event. Left to right: Om, Graham Weston of Rackspace, Frank Frankovsky of Facebook, Michael Locatis of the DOE, Alan Leinwand of Zynga, Forrest Norrod of Dell (with the mic) and Jason Waxman of Intel.

Post-event show & tell: Drew Schulke of Dell's DCS team being interviewed for the nightly news and showing off a Dell DCS server that incorporates elements of Open Compute.

Extra credit reading

• ABC 7 News (video): Facebook opens up technology behind its servers
• Official Facebook Open Compute press release
• InformationWeek:Facebook Challenges With Green, Open Source Data Center

• GigaOM: Bringing Facebook’s Open Compute Project Down to Earth
• The Register:  Facebook’s open hardware: Does it compute?

• Facebook, OpenCompute and Dell

• Forrest Norrod of Dell on Open Compute

• Frank Frankovsky of Facebook talks about Open Compute — how they got there and where they go from here
• More photos from the event

Pau for now…

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