Future Technologies Initiative
The OCP Future Technologies Initiative's temporary co-leads are Dirk Van Slyke and Cliff Grossner.
Scope
The OCP Future Technologies Initiative (FTI) is a formal effort within the Foundation to build a future-focused Community within OCP to serve as a forward-looking funnel for ideas and technologies two-to-five years into the future.
FTI brings into the OCP Community academia, industry researchers, startups, venture capital and analyst firms to solve future challenges facing the industry, and accelerate productization.
Focused on building pipelines of talent to work on specific problems, the OCP Future Technologies Initiative will ultimately hand off promising efforts to OCP Projects, with the ultimate goal of commercialization.
Workstreams
The Future Technologies Initiative will focus on specific technical areas, in alignment with the OCP Foundation Steering Committee and Foundation leadership.
Each focus area will be led by an expert in the field, and will call on volunteers and expertise from a range of member companies, academia, and related standard bodies. Current FTI workstreams include:
- Bill Martin, SSD I/O Standards at Samsung at Samsung has been selected as Technical Chair of the Data Centric Computing workstream along with Jason Molgaard, Storage Device Architecture at Solidigm.
- Bobby Lu, Prinical Engineer at Lightelligence, and Ron Swartzentruber, Director of Engineering at AMD, will lead the Short Reach Optical Interconnect workstream.
- Boniface Yogendran, CD, PEng, and Jonathan Burnett, Deputy Director of Research at NQCC will lead the Data Center Integration of Quantum Information Infrastructure workstream.
- Kyle McCrindle, CTO at Denvr Dataworks; Jonmichael (JM) Hands, CEO at FarmGPU; and Yann-Guirec Manac'h, Office of CTO at Scaleway, will lead the Scaling AI Clusters at Neoclouds workstream.
We would like to thank Murugasamy (Sammy) Nachimuthu, lead cloud solutions architect and Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, who successfully led the Cloud Service Model workstream to graduation from FTI, now within the Hardware Management Project. Likewise, we thank Weifeng Zhang, Corporate VP, Head of Labs at Lenovo Research, who served as Technical Chair of the AI HW-SW Design workstream which also graduated to a Subproject under the Server OCP Project.
This marks the third successful FTI workstream transition, after the initial transition of the Software Defined Memory workstream to create a new OCP Subproject, now called Composable Memory Systems.
Get Involved
There are several ways to get involved in the OCP Future Technologies Initiative:
- Join the conversation in the FTI LinkedIn Group.
- Join the FTI mailing list to connect with the FTI team and the community, give advice and contribute.
- Join the OCP Future Technologies Symposium.
OCP Future Technologies Initiative Calendar
The calendar displayed here is updated nightly from the project's Groups.io Calendar
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