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A 10 year reflection on the Open Compute Project.   

Thursday, July 15, 2021 · Posted by Bill Carter, CTO & Interim Executive Director

As OCP was launching, working as an engineer at Intel, I met the Facebook mechanical engineers when they shared the details of a new rack design that solved many of the issues we had faced for years. It was evident that they were about to break the “glass ceiling” that the design communi (...)

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