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Facebook, Open Compute Project Set Hardware Hackathon June 18

David Cohen — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:27:46 +0000

Facebook and the Open Compute Project will hold a hardware hackathon at the social network’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday, June 18, at noon PT, with the winners receiving up to $10,000 in seed funding and mentoring to groom their idea for pitching to venture capitalists.

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Open Compute Project Focusing On Connecting Networking Hardware

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:42:28 +0000

The Open Compute Project, a Facebook-started consortium aimed at making data storage more efficient, announced Wednesday that it is now working on a way to speed up innovation with regard to networking hardware. Facebook has partnered with companies such as Big Switch Networks, Broadcom, Cumulus Networks, Intel, Netronome, OpenDaylight, the Open Networking Foundation, and VMware to accomplish this.

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Facebook Confirms Altoona Data Center

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:47:50 +0000

A day after an Iowa newspaper reported that Facebook’s next data center would be built in that state, Facebook confirmed the plans. The data center in Altoona, Iowa (13 miles northeast of Des Moines) will be Facebook’s fourth owned and operated data center, and the third in the U.S. Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Jay Parikh described in a blog post why the company is building another data center.

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How Efficient Are Facebook’s Data Centers?

David Cohen — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:27:14 +0000

Facebook is going public with the results of its efficiency efforts at its data centers in Prineville, Ore., and Forest City, N.C., debuting two public dashboards that display real-time data for the data centers’ PUE (power usage effectiveness) and WUE (water usage effectiveness) levels.

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Open Compute Foundation Taps Cole Crawford As COO

David Cohen — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:36:51 +0000

The Open Compute Foundation welcomed a new chief operating officer: Cole Crawford, who has been involved in the open-source sector since 1992, holding positions at OpenStack and Nebula, as well as advising the Linux Foundation.

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A Tale Of Two Facebook Data Centers

David Cohen — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:18:08 +0000

This past April, Facebook began operations at its second data center in the U.S., in Forest City, N.C., which joined its already existing facility in Prineville, Ore. But how does the social network deal with the differences in climate between the two locations?

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Facebook Aims For Greater Water Efficiency At Data Center

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:12:02 +0000

About one week after releasing energy usage figures, Facebook showed how efficiently water is used at its data center in Prineville, Ore. The verdict? Good, not great.

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Facebook Holds Grand Opening For 2nd U.S. Data Center

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:55:14 +0000

Today Facebook held a grand opening for its second data center in the U.S., located in Forest City, North Carolina. continued…

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Tax Break: Facebook Forms Open Compute Foundation

Jackie Cohen — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:19:57 +0000

Amid the discussion of data center specifications and other high-tech arcana, Facebook announced the formation of the Open Compute Foundation to lead the development of energy efficient hardware infrastructure.

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