Experience of public procurement of Open Compute servers

21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics

物理学;计算机科学

Bärring, Olof^1 ; Guerri, Marco^1 ; Bonfillou, Eric^1 ; Valsan, Liviu^1 ; Grigore, Alexandru^1 ; Dore, Vincent^1 ; Gentit, Alain^1 ; Clement, Benoît^1 ; Grossir, Anthony^1

IT Department CERN, Geneva 23

CH-1211, Switzerland^1

关键词: Computing infrastructures;    Data centres;    Open hardware;    Open source software projects;    Public procurement;    Request for informations;    Request for tenders;    Standard hardware;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/664/5/052004/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/664/5/052004

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Open Compute Project. OCP (http://www.opencompute.org/). was launched by Facebook in 2011 with the objective of building efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. The technologies are released as open hardware. with the goal to develop servers and data centres following the model traditionally associated with open source software projects. In 2013 CERN acquired a few OCP servers in order to compare performance and power consumption with standard hardware. The conclusions were that there are sufficient savings to motivate an attempt to procure a large scale installation. One objective is to evaluate if the OCP market is sufficiently mature and broad enough to meet the constraints of a public procurement. This paper summarizes this procurement. which started in September 2014 and involved the Request for information (RFI) to qualify bidders and Request for Tender (RFT).