I just attended the Facebook Open Compute Project tech talk and I was very impressed. I am located
in Santa Clara for this week whilst attending #mysqlconf and
thought to swing by Facebook and attend this talk, partly because
I wanted to find out more about their server
infrastructure.
The Open Compute Project is driven by Facebook as a way to
innovate in datacenter excellence for all.
Tom Furlong, Director of Site Operations and Jay Park Head of
Datacenter Design highlighted the Facebook 2.0 DC which
includes
- fully custom servers
- fully custom cooling for the datacenter
- completely new power distribution within the datacenter
Facebook have multiple DC's around the USA and use Akamai to
serve content locally …