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Sep 11, 2026
Ramune NagisettyGUEST
And there's a lot of efforts to create standards in this space to promote this.
Ramune NagisettyGUEST
And some of these standards come through the Open Compute Project.
Ramune NagisettyGUEST
and the Universal Chiplet Interconnect, which is called UCIE.
Ramune NagisettyGUEST
And now a company, TenseTorrent, has released something called the OpenChip Atlas.
Trevor FreemanHOST
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Phil HarrisGUEST
Uh, uh, Cole Crawford, who was one of the early guys at, at Facebook before it became Meta, and was one of the leading voices in the Open Compute Platform movement, which is try and standardize how we do these things.
Phil HarrisGUEST
Cole is now the CEO of a company called VaporIO, and, and, and what he was really saying is it's 'cause it's so complicated and difficult to run data centers, let alone build them, the capital expense.
Phil HarrisGUEST
AI isn't just one thing.
speaker_0HOST
So let's look at your recent developments.
speaker_0HOST
So in May 2026, Castrol ON's PG25 direct liquid cooling fluid achieved the OCP-inspired recognition with, uh, immersion fluids like DC15 and DC20 following suit.
speaker_0HOST
Why is open ecosystem validation so critical for operators who are evaluating the risks of, you know, those thermal technologies?
Aida ElbouananiGUEST
Oh, this is, uh, obviously an honor for us to achieve these recognitions.
Aida ElbouananiGUEST
So we were recognized by OCP as OCP-inspired.
Aida ElbouananiGUEST
We also recently achieved the NVIDIA approval for Castrol ON PG25, and validation is, is very important for customers because this is, um, how they understand that our product is reliable.
Aida ElbouananiGUEST
Our customers today are making long-term infrastructure investments.
Matt VincentHOST
So what advantages does bringing together cabinets, bus bars, rack PDUs, and monitoring deliver compared with treating each component separately?
Garrett FurlongGUEST
As we've been seeing the shift to AI infrastructure and what that means specifically in all the changes, you've got open compute project, you've got rear door heat exchangers, you've got the rear bus bars that are DC, and even beyond that, you're moving into low voltage DC architecture.
Garrett FurlongGUEST
So you've got a lot of changes happening all at once, and it forces the facilities people and IT gear people to actually work together where typically they're just at each other's throats, right? You've got to make sure that all of these pieces are integrated and actually able to function properly well ahead of when you used to have to do that.
Garrett FurlongGUEST
If you had to make a last minute decision when ordering cabinet because you've got too many whips in the back of the cabinet, great.
Garrett FurlongGUEST
You've got to be thinking about those kind of decisions ahead of time now.
Garrett FurlongGUEST
when you're actually specking everything out in the first place.
Garrett FurlongGUEST
So the cabinets, the bus bars, and even if you're not doing open compute project and you are using rack PDUs, as those AI-dense deployments scale and you're looking at 100, 125 amp PDUs, the amount of room in the back of the cabinet really becomes critical space now.
Garrett FurlongGUEST
So those things all need to be thought of well ahead of time in conjunction with one another rather than just piecemealing it as you go.
Mike IsaacGUEST
There's a...
Mike IsaacGUEST
Or they built this software tool called PyTorch and gave that away for free, and they've sort of done this open compute project, sharing information on how to build, like, some hardware.
Mike IsaacGUEST
So, like, there is precedent that exists.
Mike IsaacGUEST
That said, like they were behind three years ago and did open source, and then they pivoted like a year ago when they were behind again to closed models, and now they're pivoting again.
Klaus StaffingerHOST
Now I joined the marketing team.
Klaus StaffingerHOST
So I spent countless nights in data centers and around data centers over the last twenty-one years, um, which I'm, I'm very happy about so because I, uh...
Klaus StaffingerHOST
Yeah, I did, I did a very long journey, actually.
Klaus StaffingerHOST
And there is, uh, a lot of changes that I've lived with and, uh, uh, yeah, was with my, with my, uh, with our clients and customers, um, to do this over the past twenty-one years.
Klaus StaffingerHOST
So that's the reason why, because in, in, in my eyes and in, in many of our customers' eyes, this is something that they have heard, may never have heard of, but it is definitely worth into exploring it a little bit.
Klaus StaffingerHOST
So let's start right away.
Klaus StaffingerHOST
So strategies for modern data centers, so OCP.
Klaus StaffingerHOST
Is it the future of a modern data center or not? In order to understand this a little bit better, um, we will also explore, so what is OCP overall? So what does it mean? What is it? Why is there a group of people, a big group of people talking about OCP? Um, why is AI accelerating this? So what is the impact on AI, specifically on OCP? What is that we can expect as changes, uh, in a data center caused by OCP? Um, and then, um, I, I guess and very interested-- interesting question for everyone, so will it affect my business? So do I need to prepare for it? What is it? What can I expect? What do I have to expect from OCP? And finally, as I said, so if I expect this, how, uh, can I prepare for it? And what is it that I could do or that I should do? Um, in order to start this, for me it is always very interesting to know at least if you-- It's very interesting for me if you have heard of it or not.
Marc AustinHOST
So one of the things I wanna start with is Network Automation Foundation, and part of that is because at Hedgehog we're an open networking company.
Marc AustinHOST
We're members of the Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Compute Project.
Marc AustinHOST
Tell us about the organization.
Marc AustinHOST
I think you were one of the founders.