Manager of designing equipment that amir Facebook Michael holds a component from a data reader to Facebook in Palo Alto, California, headquarters Thursday, April 7, 2011.Facebook makes the plans and mechanical drawings of its servers open source.(Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press)Facebook says it wants to help others to build startups more easily and more effectively by sharing the technology behind the servers that power's massive online social network. In turn, it wishes to take advantage of the innovations of others, too.
Facebook won't project silver Open Compute announced Thursday. On the contrary, in making plans, drawings and mechanical models of its servers available for everyone an open model source, the company hopes others will improve their. Facebook can then incorporate these advances into its own servers.
"The design of more efficient servers... is a large part of its build the things we build," said Frank Frankovsky, Director hardware design and supply chain to Facebook. The company has already opened the software behind the site so that developers can build applications on it.
Servers in data centers are the backbone of the Internet like Facebook services. They store and transmit billions of all external applications used by the members of Facebook, links, photos and status updates.
After the rental of space in California and Virginia data centers, Facebook has recently opened its own in Prineville, Oregon and is implementing another in North Carolina. He says the Prineville data center is 38 percent more efficient energy and 24 per cent cheaper to build data centers that had been using Facebook.
"Normally when we call many people here, we talk about products," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an announcement at the headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto. It is "easy to lose track of what all the requirements."
Facebook has stated that he is already working with manufacturers, including Dell Inc., who build server based on its design. Some servers are already available.
Intel Corp. has also helped develop Facebook server specifications, said Jason Waxman, General Manager of Intel for high density computing. He added that the design combined with the efficiency gains in the Facebook Data Center cut the cost of power to the computer user average of 60 per cent-a quantity huge whereas Facebook scale.
Waxman said offer open standards can help to grow the technology industry. By helping others develop more efficient data centers, "you expand the pie, and I think that everyone wins," he said.
Analyst in Forrester Richard Fichera said that Facebook of the merit of sharing its technology with the rest of the world, including competitors, even if the company is also motivated by less altruistic reasons. He stated in a blog that shares designs essentially creates a community of service providers and could help to reduce costs Facebook.
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