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Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

In a groundbreaking move, Facebook has launched the Open Compute Project, aiming to create the most efficient computing infrastructure at the lowest cost. This initiative results in data centers filled with vanity-free servers that are 38% more efficient and 24% cheaper to construct and operate than traditional designs. By breaking the unwritten rule of keeping server designs secret, Facebook is encouraging openness and collaboration, allowing competitors to leverage their innovations and create more energy-efficient data centers. The project's success relies on community engagement and improvements to shared hardware designs.

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Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

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  1. Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets By Martin Nenov Date: 04/18/11 Source: Technology Review MIT

  2. What is the ‘Open Compute Project’? • TheBig goal: To build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. • The result : Data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers.

  3. Facebook breaks the Rules “The company is breaking a long-established unwritten rule for Web companies: don't share the secrets of your server-stuffed data warehouses.” Technology Review MIT

  4. Ethical Issues: • Company privacy & corporate secrets revealed ! • Other major online companies may cherry pick elements from Facebook's designs. • The most energy-efficient data centers ever built will be available for competitors replicate ideas and take advantage of their technology innovations etc.

  5. The motives of • Most of those secret servers rely heavily on open source or free software. Facebook`s Idea is to do the same for the hardware…WHY $? • "Mark [Zuckerberg] was able to start Facebook in his dorm room because PHP and Apache and other free and open-source software existed," says David Recordon, who helps coordinate Facebook's use of, and contribution to, open-source software. "We wanted to encourage that for hardware, and release enough information about our data center and servers that someone else could go and actually build them.“ MIT

  6. The Conclusion is : Openness • The Goal is to develop servers and data centers following the model traditionally associated with open source software projects. • 1st Step- releasing the specifications and mechanical drawings • 2nd Step- working with the community to improve them. Let`s Work together to make the world more efficient through technology

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