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As hinted at in the article, the 'OCP rack' spec was narrowly specified to address a specific problem facebook had, and by being gratuitously incompatible with
by jabl 5y ago
As hinted at in the article, the 'OCP rack' spec was narrowly specified to address a specific problem facebook had, and by being gratuitously incompatible with standard 19" racks they really hindered adoption of OCP gear outside of hyperscalers that were able and willing to go all-in on OCP.
Hopefully the new Open-19 thing that is now part of OCP can rectify this mistake.
- phnofive 5y agoYeah, I was trying to figure out the modern relevance of the OCP mission ten years on - lost me at the chiplet discussion. The nonstandard racks seemed to indicate the organization would be a dog-wagging tail, but it's unclear how much that's happened either.
- formerly_proven 5y agoWhat exactly is the point of Open-19? Seems like yet-another type of blade enclosure, since you loose access to the back of the nodes, you loose a lot of flexibility for IO.
- wmf 5y agoOCP includes plenty of 19" equipment such as Microsoft's OCS and has for years. There's probably more 19" gear than 21" in OCP now.
- wtallis 5y agoAnd there are also a lot of OCP specs for components that don't care whether they're in a 19" or 21" system. Their specs for NICs and SSDs are relevant regardless of the rack size.