 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast. I'm Jamie Scott of Cataya and here joining me today. My good friend Mr. Bill Carter. He is from the Open Compute Project Foundation or as many of you know it, OCP. Bill, welcome to JSA TV. Hey, thanks for having me, Jamie. And thanks for being here. So much exciting stuff coming up on the calendar. First week of March must attend in San Jose. Can you tell our community a little bit more about the series events OCP has planned? I'd love to. Big week for us. This entering the 10th year as an organization. We've learned over the years that it's really best to try to, you know, do a lot of things in a week and rather than have a bunch of things throughout the year. So we filled up the week. We start off March 2nd and 3rd with a hackathon. It's sponsored by LinkedIn. It's on the LinkedIn campus. The hackathon is on Sonic. It's one of our open source projects. Sonic is a network operating system originally launched and contributed by Microsoft. Now we have hundreds of developers and collaborators on that and you're going to hear about Sonic throughout the week. But today hackathon at LinkedIn. March 3rd, we actually have kicked off a symposium we called the OCP Future Technology Symposium. This is an opportunity for people to really see the type of research that's going on in the universities and the research organizations around the globe. So if you're, you know, a hyperscaler, you probably have people that are already communicating with those research organizations. If you're not, this is a great time to hear about that research and connect with the individuals. And this is really important to create that connectivity and we think it is an organization that's one of our roles. That's March 3rd. It's in the San Jose Convention Center. If you attend the summit, you're actually invited to also attend the symposium. This year we're doing it in conjunction with the symposium on SDM research, another research organization. Again, we're co-located together on March 3rd. We had about 40 abstracts submitted for that. We narrowed it down to the top 30 or 35. You're going to hear from researchers and projects going on within Princeton University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Clara, just to name a few. And what's really nice is that we're seeing universities participate in that they really have deep expertise in certain subjects. Virginia Polytech, very well-known institute on power delivery and power research. They have a couple of papers they're presenting. University of New Hampshire, again, very deep in networking. They'll be there. We also have some private sector companies that are participating. Alibaba has their own research organization. They're going to present a Jupiter network, same thing. ITRI, this is the Taiwanese Research Institute they're presenting. So again, we're seeing global interest in participating in our future technology symposium. That's on March 3rd. And then March 4th, we kick off the summit. March 4th and 5th, it's our global summit. And this year's theme is open for all. So the hackathon, the symposium, then of course your global summit to end on that 4th and 5th. Is there an overall theme connecting these series of events? There is. The theme this year is open for all. We really feel that as an organization and as an industry, and this is, I want to speak for the industry, and this includes a lot of other open source organizations. We've matured to the point that open sourcing benefits everyone, regardless of the size of your country, the size of your company, or what country you're from. So we think that our work we're doing is applicable to every size of company and anywhere in the globe. So hence our theme, open for all. I love that. And so fitting for you. Additionally, we have to just pay tribute to your dynamic speaker lineup. You really have some amazing companies, speakers from those companies coming out to speak to us. Can you tell us a little bit sneak peek there? Yeah, so every year we kick off our keynote lineup on day one early in the morning or it's in the morning day one. So we'll have Rocky and in our chairman of our board, Mark Renick, we'll talk about the foundation news, give us some forward thinking direction on strategy and talk about various partnerships. And then we have five keynote speakers that we selected this year. The leadoff speaker is Catherine Schmidt from Facebook. She's going to walk us through that journey we've been on. We started with disaggregation of network hardware, disaggregation of server and rack designs. We got involved in the support of a circular economy. Very, very important that we do that. And then she's going to walk us through the future challenges as more slot slows down, we have a lot of different opportunities to galvanize the industry and do it in a collaborative open fashion. So, you know, some of those technologies will include domain specific accelerators high speed interconnects, co packaged optics on the firmware side it's you know get into security and and firmware sourcing and telemetry monitoring. So there's some of the topics that she'll hit on. We then have an international speaker in spur very large ODM out of China, and really servicing the entire globe now has been a great partner for for the foundation, working with not just the companies but but also the companies around the globe and providing open source hardware, they're going to talk about some of the customer enabling work that they're doing and the collaboration that work that they're doing. And similarly, we another international speakers from Samsung. Senior Vice President Samsung memory will talk about the work they're doing on an open storage platform and again, they're doing that in a collaborative fashion so we'll get to hear from him. And then we wrap up with two other speakers that are also members of our board. And then we have Max van board member from Intel talk about the work that they're doing on delivering solutions really from the cloud, all the way to the edge and we'll hear from Jason and a lot of different activities that Intel has underway. And then we wrap it up with a great keynote from Yosef Khalidi from Microsoft, he's going to talk about Sonic and Sonic started out as a network operating system for the traditional top of that switch and, and it's really delivering that work features and it's really now part of the switch architecture, including, you know, not just top of rack but the backbone of networking within the facility and we're going to hear about those those features that they're working on and and all the companies that are that are participating in delivering features for that so great lineup that we have in the morning and then we go into the afternoon with, again, a lot more talks available as we open up the Expo hall. Yeah, that that's so mind blowing to me the OCP global summit day one morning just includes logos like Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung in spur. So, clearly, a lineup not to be beaten just you have to attend. Now, moving over to OCP on the community side, just to get your, your insight here a little bit. Bill, if you don't mind, what are some of the innovations and solutions that are coming from our open collaboration and how are they solving industry challenges. Well, you know, we know that we have an industry challenge around power consumption on a global scale the data centers are consuming more and more. More and more of the total available power and, and so we want to be conservative on power consumption and one way to do that is to operate our facilities most efficiently. So there's a couple of things going on there on that on that side one is is just making sure that power distribution, you know, from the facilities to the rack to the it equipment is as efficient as possible. The years ago, the hyperscalers had their own proprietary designs. We have created a solution called open open rack and that that's been widely adopted. And what where we're at today is we're taking that base design and we were evolving it to include some of these the features of some of these other designs and it's it'll be an again another open source architecture. It's our third generation of open rack and we can some really big names that are participating that collaboration. Similarly, we have some harmonization work that's going on with liquid cooling, whether it's immersion or cold play or rear door heat exchangers liquid cooling solves a problem and it can do so. And, you know, cooling and data center very efficiently, as well as solving the problem of, you know, how do you cool a rack that may have 50 kilowatts or 100 kilowatts of power. So what we're doing is working across the industry and across the solution providers to come up with some harmonization, so that we create, you know, interchangeable solutions and can deploy those solutions as quickly as possible, and as widely as possible. So a lot of really interesting work going on there on the it equipment side, a lot of work going on around AI infrastructure. We have a couple of projects around AI infrastructure, and we've taken a modular approach to that so we have some AI platforms that are modular you're going to see a lot of that in the show, you're going to hear about that during the keynote. We did a project last year with the network interface card the Nick 3.0 spec, again, a wide adoption of that that creates modularity. It really also extends the life of some of those components. And more recently we're doing the same thing with with harmonization of solutions for edge deployment so as the cloud has moved from the traditional walls the data center out to the edge. You know, we're, we're offering, you know, a harmonization of the hardware there's so there's a lot of work that goes on there. I just love it. So for organizations, you want to know more about open collaboration, particularly on power distribution liquid pool and getting to the edge modularity AI infrastructure all of all of those amazing buzzwords these days. Where can they go to find out more and to be part of your efforts. Yeah, so we have a really nice web portal it's open compute.org. From there you can click on the events tab that you sign up to attend the global summit the regional summit other workshops that go on throughout the year, not just here in the US but globally. Find those events there. We have a project page if they want to get involved with projects. We have weekly calls some projects that weekly calls some have monthly calls. Again, all that information is available they can sign up right from the website and join mailing list, participate in project calls, you know attend these, these workshops that we have throughout the year. I love to go to open compute.org just for your blogs you guys are doing daily content that's extraordinary. So I find so much education just just in your blog site alone. But I should tell folks also check out the events OCP global summit and the whole the whole week of events from the hackathon and symposium as well. I'm glad head to also learn more and register open compute.org. Bill, thank you so much for your generous time and insight we look so forward to seeing you in a month's time. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcasts. Happy networking. Thank you, Jamie.