Server/NIC

Welcome

Welcome to the OCP Mezzanine NIC subgroup under OCP Server Work Group. The goal of this subgroup is to form a healthy ecosystem in Mezzanine NIC space, under OCP framework.

Guideline

We are here to build a supportive, informative and inclusive community:

Supportive

- Support implementation questions

- Evaluate new use cases

Informative

- Share the latest topics and trends related to OCP Mezz NIC spec

- Share both challenges and opportunities

Inclusive

- Take community feedback and make iterations to proposal before submitting major revision to work group and IC

- Open to both adopters, and observers

Get Involved

Updates

3/24/2017 An improved version of survey template v02 is created. All NIC suppliers are strongly recommend to participate to influence Mezz 3.0. Inputs from System supplier and Hyper-scale/CSP are welcome as well.

3/22/2017

A survey of boundary condition of typical use cases is going on.

Detail see here

Please reply to mailing-list to share your boundary condition of Mezz3.0 or write to Jia Ning

3/14/2017

1. Video of 3/17/2017 OCP Server workshop talk - Mezz 2.0 and beyond

2. Slide deck of 3/9/2017 workshop

3. Visco file for placement study

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Find Archive of updates here

Find archive of mailing-list here

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Meetings

This project meets - 2 times a Month; Defaults to 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the Month.

Call-in info and source of truth @ http://opencompute.org/community/ocp-calendars (Time zone shown: Eastern Time)

This call is open to the public.

If there is a cancellation, we will try our best to cancel >24hrs before the meeting by the calendars above.

Meeting minutes is sent out in mailing list and can be found at archive

Events

2017/3/9

OCP Engineering Workshop Sessions https://ocpussummit2017.sched.com/event/9SAa/ocp-mezzanine-nic-20-and-beyond

More information about OCP events can be found at: http://www.opencompute.org/community/events/ocp-events-calendar

Communication

- Project communication is done through the opencompute-mezz-card mailing list.

- Please make sure following the steps until you receive confirmation email and welcome email from Opencompute-mezz-card@lists.opencompute.org.

Please check your junk box and unblock Opencompute-mezz-card@lists.opencompute.org if you have trouble getting confirmation email.

- To access the mailing list archives go to: http://lists.opencompute.org/pipermail/opencompute-mezz-card/

- For general discussion, please use mailing-list above by default; This is public domain and all discussion is archived

- Reach to Jia Ning if there is strong reason not to have public discussion

Specifications and Designs

All these accepted by the IC

Specification	Version	Submit Date	Contributor	License	Notes
OCP Mezzanine card v2.0 OCP_Mezz_2.0_rev1.00_20151215b_pub_release.pdf(2.2MB) OCP_Mezz_2.0_rev1.00_20151215b_pub_release_3D_package.zip (88MB) Mechanical 20151023_P1-P9_K1-K5 zip file (57MB)	V2.0-1.0	Dec 15, 2015	Facebook	OWFa 1.0	Added support for x16 (quad x4), NCSI, dual QSFP+, & Quad SDP+ Accepted by OCP IC 2/24/2016
OCP Mezzanine card v0.5, original standard Mezzanine Card (rev 0.5)	V0.5	Oct 8, 2012	Facebook	OWFa 1.0	Defacto standard for the original network mezzanine with a x8 PCIe Gen3 interface