Past Symposium Events

• 2023 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, Prague
• 2022 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
• 2021 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose
• 2020 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (Virtual)
• 2020 OCP Future Technologies: (Re)Designing Collaboration
• 2019 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, Amsterdam
• 2019 OCP Future Technologies Symposium, San Jose

AI/HPC and Data Center Sustainability

Future Technologies Symposium

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 OCP Future Technologies Symposium awards!

OCP Symposium Best Paper  ($10.000 USD) :  DWDM photonics for optical compute interconnects, Alan Liu, Quintessent

OCP Symposium Track Best Paper (Meta Portal +) 

• Network Track : DWDM photonics for optical compute interconnects, Alan Liu, Quintessent 
• HPC Track : Thermal feasibility of the OCP HPC module, Çağatay YILMAZ, Ender Demirel, Allan Cantle, Lande Rack Cabinet Design, Simulation Technologies, Nallasway
• Data Center Efficiency : Low-Profile High-Efficiency 6kW 400V/48V Three-Phase LLC with Integrated Planar Magnetics, Rimon Gadelrab, Fred Lee, Virginia Tech
• Systems (Server, Storage, Switches, Power) : Use Cases for Software-Defined Tiered Memory and Memory Snapshots, Yue Li, MemVerge

Future Technologies Symposium presentations:

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 OCP Future Technologies Symposium awards!

OCP Symposium Best Paper ($10,000 USD) : Pushing the Boundary Conditions of Data Centers Facilitates Innovative Circular Economy Approaches, Leonie Banzer et al, Cloud & Heat

• Click here to read a blog the Cloud & Heat Technologies team put together explaining their paper!

OCP Symposium Track Best Paper (Ray-Ban Stories) :

• DC Sustainability Track : Cloud & Heat Technologies (Leonie Banzer): Pushing the Boundary Conditions of Data Centers Facilitates Innovative Circular Economy Approaches
• Hardware Performance & Acceleration Track :  ProteanTecs (Alex Burlak): Reliability of Cloud Scale Hardware Through Performance and Health Monitoring Using On-chip Telemetry
• Power Delivery & Efficiency Track :  Princeton University (Jaeil Baek & Youssef Elasser): Vertical Stacked 48V-1V Voltage Regulator for Ultra High Current Microprocessors
• Networking Track : Avicena Tech (Robert Kalman): Wide and Parallel LED - Based Optical Links Using Multi-Core Fiber for Chip-to-Chip Communications

Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 OCP Future Technologies Symposium Best Paper Award ($10.000 USD):  Ahmed Nabih, Qiang Li and Fred C. Lee from the Center of Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech.

• 3kW Power Supply Design with Easy Manufacturability for 48 V Bus Power Architecture - Poster, Brief

2020 OCP Future Technologies Symposium: Selected Topics

• Industrial Tech Research Institute: Container-based NFVI Platform with Network Performance Analysis and Tuning for Mobile Edge Private Network - Poster, Brief
• Alibaba Group: HPCC: High Precision Congestion Control for High-Speed Networking - Poster, Brief 
• University of Waikato: Using Faucet to Validate Hardware OpenFlow Implementations - Poster, Brief
• Osaka University: Feasibility study of liquid immersion technology for cooling network equipment - Poster, Brief
• AIST: Development of Fast Control Plane for an Optical and Electrical Hybrid Switch Network - Poster, Brief
• University of Toronto: Toward Intelligent Interconnect Fabrics - Poster, Brief
• University of Southampton: Programmable integrated optical circuits using the open-access CORNERSTONE platform - Poster, Brief
• UC Berkeley: Hybrid and Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters: Achieving Ultra Efficient and Compact High Step-Down DC-DC Power Conversion for Datacenter Applications - Poster, Brief
• Alibaba Group: Distributed Shared Memory Architecture Poster, Brief
• Inphi Corp: 2.5D Heterogenous Silicon Photonics Light Engine with Integrated DFB Lasers and Electronics - Poster, Brief
• Industrial Tech Research Institute: Reconfigurable Array of Inexpensive Batteries Architecture - Poster
• University of Penn./University of Colorado Boulder/Stanford University/University of Central Fl.: Towards peta-bit/s optical links - Poster, Brief
• Princeton University: LEGO-PoL: A Family of Extreme Performance Miniaturized Point-of-Load Converters for High Current Microprocessors - Poster, Brief
• Samsung Electronics: Zoned Namespaces: From Archival to I/O Predictability - Poster, Brief
• Virginia Tech: 3kW Power Supply Design with Easy Manufacturability for 48 V Bus Power Architecture - Poster, Brief
• Stanford University/Inphi Corporation: Coherent Co-Packaged Optical Interfaces Enabling Next-Generation Data Center Switching - Poster, Brief
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Wide Voltage Range High-Efficiency Sigma Converter 48V VRM With Fast Transient Response - Poster, Brief
• Alibaba Group: Towards AI-assisted Video Compression - Poster
• UC Santa Cruz: ReFlex4ARM: Supporting 100GbE Flash Storage Disaggregation on ARM SoC - Poster, Brief
• HPE/Intel/University of Florida: Near Data Processing Workload Acceleration - Design Space Exploration on Current Architectures and Workloads 
• Lightbits Labs: Always Available Clustered High Performance Storage with LightOS - Poster
• Industrial Tech Research Institute: PCIe Network as an Open Inter-Accelerator Interconnect - Poster
• San Jose State University: A 48-V Point of Load LLC Converter for Data Center Applications using Hybrid Control Structure - Poster
• Juniper Networks: Manufacture and Test of Photonics within the Electronics Ecosystem - Poster
• Princeton University: Stochastic Model and Scaling Factor of Differential Power Processing for Hard Disk Drive Servers - Poster
• North Dakota State University/University of Dayton: A 99.5% Efficient Switched-Capacitor Resonant Converter for Data Center Application - Poster
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: High Frequency Isolated Transformer Design for Medium Voltage AC to Low Voltage DC Power Conversion - Poster
• University of New Hampshire: Validating the Open Compute Project NIC 3.0 PCIe Bifurcation Mechanism - Poster
• Forced Physics DCT: Cool with Ambient Air to Reduce Cost and Climate Risk - Poster
• SkyCool Systems: Reducing Data Center Energy and Water Usage Through Passive Radiative Cooling - Poster
• University of Washington/Columbia University/Microsoft: Integrating Data Center Battery Storage with the Grid: Participation in Frequency Regulation Markets - Poster

The OCP Future Technologies Symposium team held an interactive experience: (Re)Designing Collaboration on October 6th, 2020 at 9 AM PT. Attendees heard keynote presentations from people in academia and industry on lessons learned, effective remote collaboration and practices to respond to crises.

Event objectives:

1. Learn - to know how others are adopting and solving the crisisrelated challenges due to Covid
2. Inspire - to be aware of the existing solutions and models to apply in your organization
3. Collaborate - to understand how our COmmunity members can cooperate to solve the future IT challenges together

Event Materials:

• Kick-off : Allan Smith, Facebook: Video, Slides
• Meeting the Challenge with Spartan Spirit at Silicon Valley’s Public University - David Parent, SJSU: Video, Slides
• Academia Panel: Video
  • Arvind Krishnamurthy, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
  • David Woolf, UNH Inter-Operability Laboratory
  • Tian Gu, MIT
• 30 Global Workstreams: Designing Return to Office for Facebook, Inc in 6 Weeks - Allan Smith, Facebook: Video
• Migrating In-Person Events to Virtual - Jeremy Muir, FNTECH: Video, Slides
• Conversation with Bill Carter, OCP CTO: Video
• Pivoting Quickly in a Virtual World - Mitch Glaser, AirBnB: Video
• Wrap-up - Allan Smith, Facebook, and Lesya Dymyd, 2CRSi: Video, Slides

• Congratulations to the winner of the 2019 OCP Symposium Best Paper Award (Awarded an Oculus Rift.)
  • MIT - Tian Gu - High-performance Polymer Optic and Photonic Devices for Chip-scale Optical Interconnects - Poster
• Osaka University - Poster 1, Poster 2
• Princeton - Poster
• Northwestern - Poster
• Smith College - Poster
• UC Berkeley - Poster
• UC San Diego - Poster
• UC Santa Barbara - Poster
• UC Santa Cruz - Poster
• University of Manitoba - Poster
• University of New Hampshire - Poster

• Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 OCP Symposium Best Paper Awards (Both were awarded an Oculus Rift.)
  • University of Southhampton: Opxen Access Silicon Photonics Foundry - Brief
  • UT Austin: Collaboration between CPU and Near-Data Accelerators for ML Training - Brief
• 2crsi: Towards Industrialized Performance and Quality control - Brief
• High Efficiency Data Center PSU - Brief
• LiquidBrain: Massively Parallel Liquid Cooling for AI Supercomputing - Brief
• Osaka University & Fujitsu: Experimental evaluation of cooling performance for liquid immersion - Brief, Video
• Northwestern University & NCHC: Clonezillafor ONIE - Brief
• San Jose State University: Computation Aspect of Memristor Memories - Brief
• Telescent: Automated, Open Meet-Me-Room - Brief
• IBM: Open Tape for Open Compute - Brief, Paper