Open Cloud Project testing is a ‘complete and total joke’
July 7, 2015
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Chris Mellor.
Facebook’s Open Compute Project testing is sub-standard and doesn’t follow well-established industry procedures, according to The Register’s sources. The Open Compute Project (OCP) was formed in 2011 and involves the Facebook-initiated design of bare-bones computer equipment that can supposedly be built, installed and operated at a lower cost than branded servers. A product certification lab was opened at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in January 2014. There is another lab at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. UTSA said it would:
- Conduct OCP certification and deliver the certification logo
- Develop OCP certification quality assurance tools and methodologies
- Research, build and publish OCP-based cloud and Big Data reference architectures
- Support Open Compute events by providing educational opportunities…
The AMD Open System 3.0 and Intel Decathlete with high memory capacity were the first systems to receive the OCP-certified logo from UTSA’s laboratory. We’re informed that UTSA is comparatively new, meaning it’s probably not the best choice for a major testing centre. Its engineering department is not even in the top 100 ranking for US engineering schools…
Read more from the source @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/07/complete_and_total_joke_of_ocp_testing/