Project Lead

Jim Harford

This workstream was originally formed under theFuture Technologies Initiative in 2019. In 2023, the workstream became the Cloud Service Model (CSM) workstream within the Hardware Management Project. In 2025, it was renamed to Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Management (SCIM) workstream, remaining within the Hardware Management Project.

Scope

The Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Management workstream will address hardware management of large data centers (100,000 nodes or more), creating documents in the following areas:

• Architectures, protocols, and data models that communicate hardware management information across data center networks;
• Analysis of existing communication mechanisms and interacting with standards bodies to improve the effectiveness of those mechanisms for hardware management at data center scale;
• Management challenges associated with new technologies (e.g. AI/ML, RDMA, PCIe/CXL, DDR, quantum computing); and
• Predictive models that forecast how anticipated aspects of hardware systems affect the financial performance of the data center.

OCP HM - Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Management

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