OCP Summit 2016: Jay Parikh, Facebook & Urs Hölzle, Google - Keynote
Jay Parikh, VP of
Engineering and Infrastructure at
Facebook took the stage today to emphasize the importance of efficiency when it comes to
OCP. He talked about Facebook's focus on
NVM — non-volatile memory — to help increase storage capacity, and why we need to move fast in order to support tomorrow's innovations.
With
Intel, Facebook has worked on Xeon-D to use in
Yosemite, and now is working on NVM.
Read more on Facebook's
Code blog here.
Facebook contributed
Wedge 100 and 6-pack, their next-generation open networking switches.
OpenBMC software will now support
Lightning, its new NVMe-based storage platform.
By leveraging
NVIDIA's
Tesla Accelerated Computing
Platform,
Big Sur — Facebook's powerful AI hardware — is twice as fast as the previous generation, and can train twice as fast an
...