A Revolution of Open Infrastructure in Lisbon at OCP Regional Summit
Portugal is an interesting place from a historic perspective. You could say that they peaked early, delivering the fastest ships in the Age of Discovery and carving a passage to India opening up the spice trade. This brought wealth and a colonial empire, and world influence to this small country, but as society advanced, other powers leapfrogged Portugal with maritime innovations of their own. In the 20th century, Portugal was a footnote on the history books becoming a military dictatorship until a democratic revolution freed the country 50 years ago this week. And its in this landscape that the Open Compute Project, an organization knowing a lot about the value of innovation, lands on Portuguese shores for its Regional Summit. How befitting of OCP to choose this location for arguably the most disruptive period in the history of data center computing, as we see AI place exponential performance demands on infrastructure and as infrastructure vendors feel the pressure to innovate or risk being disrupted to the footnotes of computing history.
The TechArena is delighted to once again be a media sponsor of OCP’s 2024 Summits, and we’ll be reporting this week on the latest innovations in open hardware configurations. I’m excited to engage with industry executives and leading operators about how OCP designs are influencing everything from balanced system performance across compute, memory and I/O, advances in cooling technologies to help operators deploy dense AI training clusters, and how a broader array of organizations beyond the largest cloud providers are leveraging OCP designs to advance their infrastructure. I’m also keen to see how European operators are navigating challenges of high energy costs and data regulatory restrictions and if we see any unique insights on the shaping of infrastructure and solution requirements flowing from European customers.
Watch this space as we report from the Summit, and please reach out if you’ve got specific questions you’d like answered from the experts assembled in Lisbon.