OCP Partnership
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a collaborative community founded in 2011 to focus on redesigning hardware and software technology to support the benefits of open source and open collaboration within data centers and the IT industry. Expanding on the internal work initiated by Facebook in 2009, the OCP’s mission is to provide a structure where “organizations can share their intellectual property with others and encourage the IT industry to evolve.”
Pre-Owned OCP Servers
Through collaboration within the Open Compute Project (OCP), Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS) and Rack Renew have helped the industry gain accessibility to some of the most advanced and performant servers. Rack Renew, powered by the research arm of SLS, refurbishes and resells pre-owned OCP servers and equipment for use in less intensive workloads, typically Tier II and Tier III data centers and enterprise companies. What started out as an effort by the world’s largest hyperscalers is now being driven by numerous innovative and sustainably-conscious businesses.
High Performance Computing (HPC)
OCP servers are designed to be purpose-built, modular, and scalable and used in the most demanding environments. They are capable of supporting complex, high-demand computing tasks, which is crucial for workloads of massive datasets, such as AI training and big data analytics.
Rack Renew and Open Compute Project
Rack Renew, powered by SLS, is thrilled to partner with the Open Compute Project (OCP). Since 2020, we’ve been proud to work with OCP and we believe that our efforts can be instrumental in advancing and improving circular efforts in the industry. We recognize that you can do well in business, by doing good. Our partnership with OCP accomplishes that and also enables our end customers & clients to do the same.
Below is the initial partnership announcement. Since then, we’ve gone on to do wonderful things together. Learn more at https://www.opencompute.org/.
The Open Compute Project Foundation Welcomes Sims Lifecycle Services as a Platinum Member
Tuesday, October 06, 2020 · Posted by Dirk Van Slyke
The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today that Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS), a global leader in IT asset disposition, data center IT circularity and electronics recycling, is joining the OCP Community as a Platinum member.
The OCP is a rapidly-growing, global Community focused on sharing designs of data center products and best practices among companies. OCP encourages collaboration of ideas, specifications and other intellectual property, as a way to maximize innovation and reduce complexity in tech components for data centers.
SLS plays a key role in helping data centers manage ongoing technology shifts, and proactively develops solutions for emerging data center technologies. As a Platinum member of the OCP, SLS will contribute thought leadership, participate in knowledge sharing and will collaborate with hyperscale data centers to advance and extend the life of data center IT assets.
“As data centers around the world are powered by low carbon-producing energy sources, IT equipment represents a significant percentage of the overall carbon footprint. Recycling alone is not sufficient to reduce carbon released during the projection of this equipment. We must move quickly and embrace a circular economy that extends the useful life of the equipment. The Open Compute Project is already taking steps to do this. Having global partners on this journey is imperative to redistribute these assets. SLS will play a strategic role in this transformation to a circular economy and to reducing the carbon footprint of cloud computing,” stated Bill Carter, Chief Technology Officer for the Open Compute Project Foundation.
“We believe our work with hyperscale data centers around the globe can be instrumental in advancing and improving circular efforts in the industry,” stated Sean Magann, chief commercial officer for Sims Lifecycle Services. “As a Platinum member of OCP, our expertise will help identify opportunities to extend the usable life of IT equipment while ensuring necessary hardware and security requirements are fulfilled. Some of our work will involve building white box servers for data centers as a way to provide components to server buyers with less rigorous needs; and additionally, testing and identifying if hard drive wiping can be as effective as shredding for data security. These types of initiatives open the door to more reuse possibilities and we look forward to contributing to these efforts.”