Open Compute Project U.S. Summit 2015 – Facebook News Recap

This post announces Facebook's contributions and announcements at the Open Compute Project U.S. Summit 2015, highlighting the open-sourcing of all major physical components of their data center stack. Key announcements include the introduction of 'Yosemite', a modular chassis for high-powered microservers; the proposal of the 'Wedge' network switch spec to the OCP Foundation and its availability as a product package; the release of 'OpenBMC', an open software framework for system management; and the availability of the 'FBOSS Agent' for programming the Wedge switch's ASIC. The post also reiterates significant cost and energy savings achieved through OCP and related efficiency work.