Intel and Facebook announced at the Open Compute Project Summit in the US a collaboration to develop a new server design for OCP. The Facebook-contributed design uses a server card based on the new Intel Xeon processor D product family, the first Xeon SoC and first Intel Xeon processor based on 14nm manufacturing. Facebook said it had been working with Intel for 18 months already on the 'Yosemite' project. The SoC compute server is expected to increase dramatically speed and more efficiently serve Facebook traffic.
At the OCP summit, Facebook also confirmed the contribution of specifications for its Wedge top-of-rack network switch to the OCP Foundation. Facebook is working with Accton, Broadcom, Cumulus and Big Switch to create a Wedge product package for the OCP community; Accton will begin shipping Wedge in the first half of 2015.
