BEDMINSTER, N.J., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Compute Project (OCP) launched the OCP Experience Center in November 2021 to accelerate collaboration among the OCP community through a hands-on environment to view, evaluate and learn on OCP Accepted™ and OCP Inspired™ hardware in a facility that is certified OCP Ready™. Since then, various members of the OCP community have created eight centers of expertise in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. Today, OCP is pleased to announce the latest addition, and the first OCP Experience Center in North America, to be hosted by Arm, an OCP Platinum Member since 2018.

The flood of data is driving the need for more heterogeneous computing and has accelerated the rise of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud-native technologies. However, these technologies perform best when the underlying computation is purpose-built for data processing at scale. Data centers, cloud and telecom providers benefit from standardized equipment in their racks for their daily operations. This requires a common set of widely accepted industry standards and certifications that can be applied to a heterogeneous computing infrastructure.

"It is exciting to see Arm increase its commitment to OCP with the launch of the first OCP Experience Center in North America. The new Arm-hosted OCP Experience Center is an example of how the community is seeding emerging markets by providing access to open technologies." said Steve Helvie, vice president of channel for OCP. With the launch of this new center, Arm has also become a Certified OCP Solution Provider, highlighting its ability to accelerate the delivery of OCP and Arm SystemReady solutions to market."

Headquartered in Bedminster, New Jersey, the OCP Center of Experience aims to share the OCP community's best practices for server and data center technology. Arm, in collaboration with Tech Mahindra, has committed to supporting this initiative by aligning the Arm SystemReady™ program with OCP requirements, customers have a clear path to deliver Arm OCP Ready™ based servers and workstations. Arm SystemReady is a widely adopted industry standards-based initiative, accompanied by a suite of conformance tests, specifications, and a certification process to ensure software only works on Arm. Companies such as ADLINK, AMI, Ampere and Wiwynn have already delivered Arm SystemReady certified devices and are key initial partners collaborating alongside Arm in the OCP Center of Experience.

"As a platinum member of OCP, Arm is committed to supporting the growing demands for computing infrastructure and we share OCP's mission of empowering openness and collaboration," said Imran Yusuf, Hardware Ecosystem Director, Infrastructure Business Line, Arm. . We expect the OCP Center of Expertise to accelerate the deployment of Arm-based data center, cloud and telecom hardware."

OCP is on a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near, and around data center networking equipment, general purpose servers, and GPUs. , storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs. Beyond the data center, OCP's collaboration model also helps advance the telecommunications industry and edge infrastructure. By working with Arm on the new OCP Center of Expertise, we are able to accelerate innovation and collaboration across the Arm ecosystem and the OCP community to build a highly efficient, OCP-optimized infrastructure for cloud-to-edge environments.

As an Official OCP Certified Solution Provider, Arm will help drive OCP Accepted™ and OCP Inspired™ hardware innovation among Arm's ecosystem of partners for the cloud, telecom and edge markets. To learn more about the new Experience Center and ways to collaborate with Arm and OCP, click here.

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"In close collaboration with Arm and Ampere, we are proud to have brought to market the first Arm-based COM-HPC reference system, the AVA Developer Platform, which delivers outstanding performance per watt," said Alex Wang, Senior Product Manager at Ampere. ADLINK Computing on Modules Product Center. Arm SystemReady SR certification not only ensures that most standard aarch64 Linux distributions can work right out of the box, but also that the full range of existing software can be applied with little or no modification."

"Ampere champions open ecosystems through our hardware contributions to the Open Compute Project, as well as software projects spanning open firmware, the Linux kernel, and open source cloud-native applications," said Sean Varley, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Ampere. As we build the next era of cloud computing, one that is cloud-native from processor to applications, we enthusiastically support open access to resource centers like the new OCP Experience Center for communities to use. develop, collaborate and validate the entire cloud-native platform at Ampere."

"AMI is delighted to be part of the new Arm-hosted OCP Experience Center. As an OCP Platinum member and a current member of the Arm SystemReady certification program, we are committed to supporting our partners seeking certification for their Arm-based platforms." said Zachary Bobroff, senior director of AMI's product office. "We believe this new center of expertise will enhance collaboration and help us better serve the needs of our partners. We look forward to continued success in our partnership with Arm."

"OCP is preparing its community-led operations to address critical industry concerns. Tech Mahindra, in collaboration with Arm, is pleased to host OCP's North American Center of Expertise," said Rohit Madhok, Global Head of Engineering Services. Tech Mahindra Digital. "As a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, business reengineering services and solutions, and one of the industry's leading systems integrators and engineering R&D partners for communications technology providers, we look forward to bringing our longstanding partnership with Arm and demonstrate our industry expertise and technology capabilities to the OCP Community."

"Wiwynn is committed to workload and power optimized IT solutions from the cloud to the edge. We have proven the increased efficiency and lower total cost of ownership of Arm's architecture on our SV328R server based on Ampere Altra for cloud data centers," said Steven Lu, Senior Vice President at Wiwynn. We are delighted to join the new Arm-hosted OCP Experience Center to further drive Arm SystemReady standards and build flexible, scalable and optimized hardware platforms for the OCP community."

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About the Open Compute Project Foundation

The core of the Open Compute Project (OCP) is its community of hyperscale data center operators, joined by telecom and colocation providers and enterprise IT users, who work with providers to develop innovations that, when incorporated into the product, are deployed from the cloud to the edge. The OCP Foundation is responsible for fostering, serving and seeding the OCP Community to develop new open solutions that can satisfy the market and shape the future. To shape the future, OCP will continue to invest in strategic initiatives that prepare the IT ecosystem for big changes, such as AI and ML, optics, sustainable data center solutions, advanced cooling and power management techniques , composable silicon and sustainability. More information available on the website www.opencompute.org.

Media ContactDirk Van SlykeOpen Compute Project FoundationVice President and Chief Marketing Officerdirkv@opencompute.orgMobile: 1 303-999-7398(CTZ/CST/Houston, TX)

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