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Google and Rackspace co-develop open server architecture based on new IBM POWER9 hardware
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Rethinking data center design is happening out in the open here at Google. Today we're announcing that we’re working with Rackspace to co-develop an open server architecture design specification based on IBM’s new POWER9 CPU.
We also
recently joined
the
Open Compute Project
(OCP) and hope to submit this work to the OCP community. In fact, the POWER9 data center server specification is designed to fit in the proposed
48V open rack that we're co-designing with Facebook
.
We’ve been working on OpenPOWER since 2014, when we helped found the OpenPOWER Foundation and we’re now POWER-ready. This means the architecture is fully supported across our toolchain, allowing developers to target apps to POWER with a simple flag.
It won’t surprise anyone to hear that demand for compute at Google has been relentless and it isn’t slowing down any time soon. We’ve found 60 trillion web addresses so far, versus one trillion in 2008. To meet that demand, our goal is to ensure our fleet is capable of handling
ISA
heterogeneity, to achieve best-in-class performance and value.
We're committed to open innovation and to optimizing performance and cost in data centers, and look forward to passing these savings along to our internal users as well as our
Google Cloud Platform
customers.
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Posted by Maire Mahony, Hardware Engineering Manager at Google & Director, OpenPOWER Foundation
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