Alliance Partners
Welcome to the OCP Alliance Partners page!
The Open Compute Project Foundation believes that collaboration drives innovation and reduces equipment CAPEX, OPEX and time-to-market, as well as increasing sustainability and best practices. This includes the open collaboration that goes on in OCP Projects, as well as with other industry organizations that share the same values. We aim to work together with other like-minded communities to ensure there is no duplication of efforts in solving the growing challenges that face the IT industry. Truly, together we can go farther and faster than we can ever accomplish alone.
The OCP works with many organizations, and what follows is a list of OCP’s alliance partners with formal agreements used to bridge communities.
If you are interested in exploring an alliance with the OCP, contact alliances@opencompute.org.
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The Data Centre Industry has grown rapidly and generates a large volume of eWaste / WEEE. The current infrastructure for dealing with this waste is underdeveloped and consequently, there is a real and urgent need to address this now. CEDaCI will build a Circular Economy for the Data Centre Industry by bringing together stakeholders from all equipment life cycle stages to turn this waste into a useful resource and support the ongoing rapid growth of the DCI. https://www.cedaci.org/ |
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DMTF creates open manageability standards spanning diverse emerging and traditional IT infrastructures including cloud, virtualization, network, servers and storage. Member companies and alliance partners worldwide collaborate on standards to improve the interoperable management of information technologies. https://www.dmtf.org/ |
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Ecma International is an industry association dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems Ecma is driven by industry members to meet their needs, providing a healthy competitive landscape based on differentiation of products and services rather than technology models, generating confidence among vendors and users of new technology. https://ecma-international.org/ |
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Network disaggregation like Open RAN relies on trustworthy testing for conformance, interoperability, and end to end. We as a neutral lab run by a consortium of three operators and many strong partners are working hard to provide this foundation of network disaggregation. https://www.i14y-lab.com/ |
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IDA empowers the best scientific and strategic minds to research and analyze the most important issues of national security. The diverse mix of professionals provides IDA with the multidisciplinary talent and expertise it needs to respond the many challenges brought to us by our sponsors. The exceptional creativity and determination that our research staff brings to their work with IDA’s sponsors and each other is the foundation of IDA’s reputation for excellence. https://www.ida.org/ |
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OCP and iMasons established an alliance to expand the impact the two organizations have on our industry's greatest sustainability challenges. Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, nonprofit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all. https://imasons.org/ |
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The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) tests networking and data communications products. Since 1988, the laboratory has fostered multi-vendor interoperability while preparing students for careers in the industry. The laboratory has grown steadily into one of the industry's premier independent proving grounds for new technologies. https://www.iol.unh.edu/ |
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OCP collaboration with JEDEC brings together members from both the OCP and JEDEC communities to share efforts in developing and maintaining global standards needed to advance the electronics industry. The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is an independent semiconductor engineering trade organization and standardization body. https://www.jedec.org/ |
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At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, our mission is to expand the frontiers of knowledge and deliver solutions for science and humankind. Our six research areas, five national user facilities, and 22 research divisions each bring unique, world-class capabilities to our mission of delivering science solutions for the world. https://www.lbl.gov/ |
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The OCP collaborates with the Linux Foundation (LF), leveraging its hardware-software co-design strategy to accelerate the absorption of open innovations into the marketplace. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral, trusted hub for developers and organizations to code, manage, and scale open technology projects and ecosystems. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ |
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As Japan’s sole National Research and Development Agency specializing in the field of information and communications technology, NICT is charged with promoting ICT sector as well as research and development in ICT, which drives economic growth and creates an affluent, safe and secure society. https://www.nict.go.jp/en/ |
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This relationship will address the human capital deficit the Digital Infrastructure industry faces and the lack of educational platforms available. It will empower and inspire the younger generation through exposure to the underlying technologies that power their digital world. Both the Nomad Futurist foundation and Open Compute Project Foundation share the same vision: to ensure the talent gap in the Digital Infrastructure industry is bridged before it is too late. Both organizations are committed to the community and dedicated to giving back and creating pathways that will nurture the industry’s next generation of leaders. https://nomadfuturist.org/ |
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OCP collaborates with the OpenInfra Foundation to advocate for the compatibility adoption and integration of open infrastructure software with open hardware. The OpenInfra Foundation builds communities that write open source infrastructure software that runs in production for AI container native apps edge computing and datacenter clouds. https://openinfra.dev/ |
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OpenUK is the unique open tech industry body for the business of open technology in the UK. It spans the opens – software, hardware, data, standards and AI and is the convening point for the UK’s business, academic and contributing communities across open tech. Our work supports the UK’s journey to become “The State of Open”. Our organisation is run with the support of our volunteer community and their leadership in the tradition of open source delivering on three pillars: community, legal and policy and learning. https://openuk.uk/ |
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The community responsible for developing and maintaining the standardized approach to peripheral component I/O data transfers. PCI-SIG’s methodical approach to specification development yields a reliable, scalable solution for high speed I/O in numerous market applications. In fact, the PCI I/O expansion bus is today’s de facto interconnect between CPUs and peripherals—in computers to servers. https://pcisig.com/ |
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RISE is Sweden’s research institute and innovation partner. Through our international collaboration programmes with industry, academia and the public sector, we ensure the competitiveness of the Swedish business community on an international level and contribute to a sustainable society. Our almost 3300 employees engage in and support all types of innovation processes. RISE is an independent, State-owned research institute, which offers unique expertise and over 130 testbeds and demonstration environments for future-proof technologies, products and services. https://www.ri.se/en |
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To reach our Sustainability Goals by 2030 we need to systematically embed sustainability across the sector. This roadmap enables every industrial actor to connect, benchmark, and deliver sustainability within their segment of the Digital Infrastructure value chain. Through universal reporting, and an industry-led action plan, the roadmap is simultaneously a reporting and collaboration vehicle that ensures we achieve Sustainable Digital Infrastructure by 2030. https://sdialliance.org/ |
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OCP Collaborates with UEC to improve Ethernet performance for next-generation AI clusters and HPC deployments. UEC plans to develop enhancements to Ethernet, and the OCP has an active Community developing sustainable large-scale computational infrastructure for AI and HPC with Ethernet. Together, the OCP and UEC expect to collaborate on the integration of enhanced Ethernet for the next generation of OCP Community-delivered AI clusters providing the low latency connectivity needed for backend AI cluster fabrics. UEC's mission is to deliver an Ethernet based open, interoperable, high performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI & HPC at scale. https://ultraethernet.org/ |
OCP Accepted and OCP Inspired
OCP Accepted™ - A product can be recognized as OCP Accepted™ if it complies with an approved OCP specification AND design files have been contributed (Design Package Guidelines).
OCP Inspired™ - A product can be recognized as OCP Inspired™ if it complies with an approved OCP specification or other types of contribution; HOWEVER, no design files have been contributed.
OCP Accepted™ or OCP Inspired™ products have been demonstrated and meet 4 or more of the OCP tenets-efficiency, openness, impact, scale and efficiency.
All levels of OCP membership are eligible for OCP Accepted™ and OCP Inspired™ recognition.
OCP Ready
The OCP Facility Recognition program is intended to brand your facilities to be OCP Ready. Guidelines were created by our Data Center Facility Project Team and serve as a reference for data center operators and tenants who want to understand the fundamental facility requirements to deploy this gear into their IT space. Facilities that meet these guidelines and approved by the OCP DC Facilities Project receive the certification as an OCP Ready facility.