Quanta QCT, the Silicon Valley-based subsidiary of the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Quanta Computer, has launched a new line-up servers, storage and networking gear built using designs based on the open-source specifications by the Open Compute Project.

OCP is an open-source hardware and data center design community Facebook started two years ago, kicking it off by contributing designs of its own servers and data center mechanical and electrical infrastructure components.

Frank Frankovsky, VP of infrastructure at Facebook and OCP chairman, said, “Investments like this, from companies like Quanta, are exactly the kind of thing that is helping the OCP community make data center technologies more innovative, more efficient, and more sustainable.”

Quanta provided design, engineering and manufacturing support to Facebook as it developed its first servers.

The manufacturer's new hardware line is called Rackgo X. The company started accepting orders for the products Thursday.

The product line includes two servers, models F03A and F03C, a JBOD (model JBR) storage array and a 10G SFP+ networking switch (model T3048-LY2). A server motherboard option, Windmill F03, is also available.

Quanta said it will contribute designs for all products in the Rackgo X line back to the Open Compute Foundation, the non-profit that oversees OCP.

Quanta offers three reference architectures to help customers get their Rackgo X gear up and running quickly.

The X300 architecture is designed for compute-intensive workloads, while the X500 architecture targets storage- and bandwidth-intensive workloads. The X700 architecture is tuned for Hadoop and other, more balanced workloads.

The gear supports segregated-cold-aisle data center designs, the use of centralized power supplies and can fit in 21-inch racks – the non-standard rack width Facebook came up with for its own needs.

The F03A server is a high-density, 2OU (Open Rack unit), four-node server designed for compute-intensive workloads. An optional dual-port 10Gbps SFP+ card provides VGA redirection for on-site troubleshooting.

The second server, the F03C, is a 2OU three-node design.

The JBR storage system is based on Quanta's patented “hidden-shelf” design. It fits 28 hot-swappable 3.5-inch drives in a 2OU configuration.

The T3048-LY2 switch is designed for public and private cloud deployments with layer 2 and layer 3 networking topologies. It has dual-speed 1/10 gigabit Ethernet capabilities.

The Windmill F03 server motherboard option is a half-width, Intel Xeon ES-2600 product family motherboard that features dual CPU sockets and 16x DIMM slots for workloads demanding high performance infrastructure.