The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a collaborative community that focuses on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure. It was initiated in 2011 by Facebook with a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the data center’s networking equipment, general purpose and GPU servers, storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs. The OCP Foundation is responsible for fostering, serving, and seeding the OCP Community to develop new open solutions that can meet the market and shape the future.

The OCP shares designs of data center products and best practices among companies, including Arm, Meta, IBM, Wiwynn, Intel, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Seagate, and many others. The OCP Foundation maintains a number of OCP projects, such as server designs, data storage, and mezzanine (NIC) . The OCP follows the spirit of software open-source communities adapted to hardware, and the members aim to share the best possible designs to answer modern needs with the most suitable solution.

It is important to note that OCP can also refer to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), which is a platform for developing and running containerized applications. However, in the context of the Open Compute Project, OCP refers to the collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure.