The Open Compute Project (OCP) Regional Summit was hosted in Lisbon, Portugal last month, the 5th (and largest) regional summit the group has hosted.
Whilst I wasn't able to make it in person, I’d be remiss if I didn't write a (very) quick summary about the conference, and pertinent updates to scaling digital infrastructure in a sustainable way.
The hot topic continues to be GenAI, such that OCP has created a new track for Artificial Intelligence, and a strategic initiative for Open AI Systems (no, not THAT OpenAI), promoting open rack-level systems comprising of hardware, firmware, management and validation.
Next-gen Cooling updates
Of course, the man in red, Rolf Brink (Promersion) was going to feature in this section, and continuing to forecast the maturity of immersion coming in the next 2-3 years, with cold plate well and truly in place today, supporting many large production workloads.
Liquid cooling is well over a $1B market.