Open Compute Project (OCP)
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a community that develops open, interoperable hardware designs and operational best practices for data center infrastructure—spanning compute, storage, networking, racks, and power. OCP work is driven by real deployment requirements and is designed to enable multi-vendor platforms for cloud, AI/ML, and high-performance environments.
SNIA and OCP formed an alliance to connect vendor-neutral data, storage, and memory standards with open hardware platform specifications. The goal is to make it easier for platform teams and solution builders to combine OCP designs with interoperable storage and data services—without locking into a single vendor ecosystem.
Areas of Collaboration
1) Storage device specifications and verification
- • Collaborate on OCP storage device specifications (for example: Datacenter NVMe SSD, SAS/SATA platforms) and associated test/verification frameworks with relevant SNIA storage standards.
- • Improve interoperability and consistency across implementations by promoting common terminology, profiles, and measurable behaviors where applicable.
2) Composable memory, fabrics, and system interoperability
- • Align composable system requirements (pooling, disaggregation, serviceability) with SNIA interoperability efforts across memory and storage subsystems.
- • Support modern platform architectures that combine accelerators, interconnects, and high-throughput storage paths.
3) Networking integration for data services
- • Collaborate on open approaches that improve data center efficiency and performance for distributed data pipelines—especially where storage, memory, and network behavior intersect.
4) AI infrastructure and data services
- • Connect SNIA’s StorageAI™ work with Open Systems for AI initiatives to support high-performance, low-latency data services across AI training and inference environments.
