OCI also actively engages with the industry partners such as Rackspace, Microsoft, CPS Energy, Southwest Research Institute, and ProfitBricks to facilitate technology transfer and provide a novel platform for industry projects that will lead to state-of-the-art experiments, findings, and innovations.
WHAT OUR PARTNERS ARE SAYING:
AMD:
“We’re thrilled that the AMD Open 3.0 platform has gained Open Compute certification and is now being used in the first and only Open Compute certification lab in North America,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, corporate vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD. “This collaboration demonstrates AMD’s strong commitment to the open compute movement and open technologies.”
Mellanox:
“Mellanox has been an OCP supporter and contributor since inception,” said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Developing a meaningful and scalable compliance and interoperability charter is critical to the success of any open standard. We’re pleased to support and contribute to OCP C&I efforts at UTSA. Mellanox, with its end-to-end interconnect solutions, is well positioned to ensure C&I efforts extend to OCP Storage and OCP Network projects in the future.”
Quanta:
“The Open Compute Certification and Solutions Laboratory at UTSA is the next critical step in building out the OCP ecosystem,” said Mike Yang, general manager of Quanta QCT. “The work they are doing with their partners provides a reliable roadmap for enterprises and service providers seeking to deploy OCP solutions that meet rigorous and reliable standards, and Quanta QCT is honored to be an early and active supporter of this effort.”
Avnet:
“Avnet has a longstanding history in supporting educational efforts, and this was a perfect fit for us from the beginning,” said DaWane Wanek, director of strategic solutions enablement with Rorke Global Solutions, a business unit of Avnet Inc. (NYSE: AVT) Electronics Marketing group in the Americas. “Making OCP easier to consume for the next generation of engineers and enabling programs like the UTSA lab is a wonderful opportunity for us to contribute to the future of innovation, with untold payoff.”
Seagate:
“Seagate joined the Open Compute Project in 2012 to help develop and promote open scalable storage technology and solutions for cloud. The new Open Compute Certification and Solution Laboratory at UTSA will be paramount serving as a much needed proving ground for open storage technology contributions, research, and education, said Ali Fenn, senior director of Seagate advanced storage. “As adoption of open source solutions grow interoperability, quality assurance, and on-going education is critical. Seagate is excited the talent and expertise of the Open Compute Certification and Solution Laboratory at UTSA is now part of the OCP community.”
Mellanox Technologies:
“In virtualized environments, Mellanox InfiniBand and 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect solutions with RDMA and SR-IOV technologies accelerate hypervisor performance by offloading tasks that are critical for large-scale workloads,” said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “We are pleased to partner with The University of Texas at San Antonio and extend our research in the convergence of high-performance computing and low-latency cloud architectures to improve performance, efficiency and scalability.”
Edge-Core Networks:
“As a leading provider of open data center switches, Edge-Core Networks welcomes UTSA’s research into SDN and cloud infrastructures built on open hardware,” said Min Chou, president of Edge-Core Networks. “We are pleased to donate our 1GbE and 10GbE top-of-rack switches to the Cloud and Big Data Lab that will support a range of switchOS, SDN, and cloud orchestration software and infrastructure designs.”
AMAX:
“Currently, the most pressing technology demand across all major industries comes within the arena of cloud and data analytics, particularly meeting these application needs in the form of converged infrastructures,” said Julia Shih, director of strategic alliance, AMAX. “We are very excited to combine UTSA’s research capabilities with AMAX’s expertise in OpenStack converged cloud infrastructures to meet and exceed this demand, not only in the form of highly-efficient and modular data center solutions, but also with our Open Compute platforms integrated with GPUs designed for high performance parallel computing.”
Cumulus Networks:
“As a long-standing supporter of the Open Compute Platform, we are excited to see our initial contributions evolve and help lay the foundation for the first North American open computing testing laboratory,” said Reza Malekzadeh, vice president of business at Cumulus Networks. “UTSA’s work in conjunction with the OpenStack and Open Compute projects will help to standardize open compute hardware development, making it easier for companies to adopt these technologies within their own infrastructures while preparing students and engineers for the future demands in IT.”
Internet2:
“The University of Texas at San Antonio has done a magnificent job bringing together industry, higher education and the research community to create this open-compute lab as a research hub for high-performance computing,” said Steve Wolff, Internet2 chief technology officer. “This endeavor will provide unique services via OpenStack to advance research, scholarship and practice for health care and other sectors. The Internet2 community looks forward to using this new open-source resource for high-performance computing.”
