At OCP Summit in San Jose, Microsoft announced a collaborative effort with AMD, Google, Meta, and NVIDIA to create OCP standard requirements for GPU management.
Standardizing allows suppliers to seamlessly collaborate with hyperscalers and enables them to host various suppliers in their datacenters within an accelerated timeframe. This new OCP initiative focuses on two models of accelerators and GPU cards: Universal Base Board and Discrete. Initial specifications have been driven via different OCP workgroups focused on GPU firmware update requirements, interfaces, and Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) requirements for hardware.
