News & Analysis
Comment
timbo_test
Its good to see articles on events like this, but a realy pity that the ...
rick.merritt
Facebook's Prineville, Ore. facilities manager worked on a Bluetooth link to ...
Slideshow: Hanging out at a hardware hackathon
Rick Merritt
1/29/2013 7:01 AM EST
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The pizza, trail mix and sodas flowed freely as nearly 100 engineers joined a hardware hackathon at the Open Compute Summit here Jan. 16, hammering out creative ideas to solve data center problems.
The group above was a mix of consultants and students, many of whom met for the first time at the event. They showed team spirit, insisting all members get included in a photo of their multidimensional server temperature sensor.
The winning team developed ideas for a distributed sensor network to monitor a data center. The Open Compute Foundation that hosted the event offered them a prize of subsidizing the costs of filing for a patent on the work or help bringing the product to market.
From left, Andrew Taber, Bruce Gottlieb, Rob Stephenson, Dave Rauchwerk, Eric Max and Joel Franusic show their multidimensional server temperature meter.
|
|
|
|
|
Navigate to related information
rick.merritt
1/29/2013 11:48 AM EST
Is this the flavor of innovation the data center needs?
Sign in to Reply
chanj
1/31/2013 1:59 AM EST
Very interesting slideshow. Is there any more details? I'm particularly interested in the "Servers get unwired".
Sign in to Reply
rick.merritt
1/31/2013 10:29 AM EST
Facebook's Prineville, Ore. facilities manager worked on a Bluetooth link to report stats from an individual server.
But a more ambitious effort--that won the prize--worked on a sensor network to report details from many servers. I have no other info on it, though.
Sign in to Reply
timbo_test
3/12/2013 3:47 AM EDT
Its good to see articles on events like this, but a realy pity that the 'featured comments' have been placed to obscure some of the pictures!
Sign in to Reply