Facebook is leading an amazing project that could change tech hardware forever.
It will be to the data center and to hardware what Linux is to software and software development.
It's called the Open Compute Project and participants are creating a whole bunch of server, racks, storage designs and data center designs releasing them as open source free to anyone.
We've got an exclusive interview with Facebook's Frank Frankovsky vice president of hardware design about it here.
It all began when Facebook decided to stop buying servers and renting space in hosting centers and design all of that stuff itself. At first there were only three engineers working on Facebook's hardware and data center plans. One of them was Jay Park, director of data center design engineering.
"Jay woke up in the middle night, found a napkin and sketched out electrical system. We framed that napkin," Frankovsky laughed.
Here it is hanging on Facebook's wall. The caption reads:
"Nothing to draw on but a dinner napkin! Here is the middle-of-the-night design draft of the Prineville data center by Jay Park."
