ONE MAJOR RESULT OF THIS VISIONARY COLLABORATIVE APPROACH IS THE LEVEL AND CHOICE OF HIGH- POWER DENSITY AND COOLING NOW READILY AVAILABLE AT ALL LEVELS IN THE DATA CENTRE COMMUNITY . weigh 500kGs to 1500 kGs , and 47U in height . The workloads can be anything from 6.6KW to 36kW and beyond .
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Ready entails colocation data centres already working with the OCP to achieve compliance against their rigorous criteria for power , cooling , IT technical space layout and design , facility management and control and facility operations .
It allows prospective hyperscale and enterprise customers to identify colocation facilities where OCP IT equipment can be installed without complications . Because the programme ’ s standards are open-source ( like some software ), the data centre
“ operators will also know in advance what a given customer rack needs to do in terms of size , capability and power before it arrives onsite , and ensure the design and layout is ready to support this class of equipment .
The majority of Open Compute hardware is deployed as a fully populated rack . OCP-Ready data centre facilities must be able to easily accommodate racks of these weights and dimensions and be able to deploy multiple racks of such equipment at scale . As a minimum the rack sizes can
ONE MAJOR RESULT OF THIS VISIONARY COLLABORATIVE APPROACH IS THE LEVEL AND CHOICE OF HIGH- POWER DENSITY AND COOLING NOW READILY AVAILABLE AT ALL LEVELS IN THE DATA CENTRE COMMUNITY . weigh 500kGs to 1500 kGs , and 47U in height . The workloads can be anything from 6.6KW to 36kW and beyond .
In addition , the density of compute to meet scale demands and efficiency goals raises the bar for power and cooling specifications for racks . Cooling of the racks will require potentially a range of solutions – immersive , chilled water / air , chip cooling . For the higher densities the expectation is for PUE to be sub-1.1 .
In summary , driven by the demands of hyperscalers for design excellence , predictability and certainty , the ongoing standardisation of IT hardware and supporting infrastructure is also a positive leap forward for enterprise companies as they migrate workloads from on-premise facilities to colocation and the cloud . It provides peace of mind with access to hyperscaleclass infrastructure , allowing easier deployment of HPC equipment and the ability to scale quickly and reliably in any geographic region . �
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