Research PaperNO. 2026-WS-01

OCP Hardware Management Workstream Meetings

Recent meetings from the OCP Hardware Management project workstreams including RAS API, Hardware Fault Management, DC Diagnostics & Debug, and OpenRMC-DM. Watch recordings and review summaries of key discussions shaping the future of open hardware management standards.

Meetings
12
Last 6 months
Workstreams
4
Active projects
Latest
Mar 2026
OpenRMC-DM

Active Workstreams

OpenRMC-DMHardware Fault Management / DC Diag & DebugRAS APIHardware Fault Management
OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call
OpenRMC-DMMar 24, 2026

OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call

This is the most recent verified meeting in this set. It appears to be the latest regular OpenRMC-DM session, and in the context of OCP's rack-management goals it likely served as a progress review on standardized rack-domain monitoring, control, and datacenter integration, with OpenRMC-DM acting as the practical implementation bridge between device-level interfaces and rack-scale operations.

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OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call
OpenRMC-DMFeb 24, 2026

OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call

This appears to be the February OpenRMC-DM check-in, continuing the rack-management line of work. The most reasonable reading is that the group was iterating on implementation details and management-plane behavior for rack-level monitoring and control, likely with an eye toward making rack managers interoperable with the broader OCP manageability model rather than yet another isolated controller stack.

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OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Project call
Hardware Fault Management / DC Diag & DebugJan 30, 2026

OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Project call

This is one of the more informative indexed videos: the available snippet says the goal is to create specifications that allow operators to diagnose and debug problems at the component and node level within the datacenter. That makes this call especially relevant to the DC Diag and Debug and broader hardware fault-management side of the project, where the group is trying to define not just what faults are, but how they should be surfaced and worked operationally.

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OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call
OpenRMC-DMJan 27, 2026

OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call

This looks like a follow-on OpenRMC-DM working session as the rack-management effort continued into 2026. Given the OpenRMC charter and related summit material, the likely emphasis was practical rack-level manageability: how to monitor, aggregate, and control rack resources in a scalable way so datacenter operators can treat rack management as a consistent service layer rather than a collection of vendor-specific tools.

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OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call
OpenRMC-DMDec 9, 2025

OCP HM - OpenRMC-DM Project call

This seems to be one of the first recent indexed meetings for the OpenRMC-DM effort, which sits under the rack-management side of Hardware Management. Based on the project name and nearby OCP HM content, the likely focus was on how a rack manager or rack-domain manager should expose standardized manageability for multiple OCP platforms installed in a rack, bringing firmware, monitoring, and remote control under a common OCP-prescribed interface.

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OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call
RAS APINov 19, 2025

OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call

This meeting appears to be the next weekly RAS API checkpoint after the November 12 session. While the title alone is sparse, the context from adjacent RAS videos suggests the call was part of an ongoing push to turn RAS from ad hoc vendor-specific behavior into a more standard, queryable interface that can support interoperable telemetry, fault history, and fleet-level analytics.

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OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project call
Hardware Fault ManagementNov 14, 2025

OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project call

This looks like a status-and-specification call for the fault-management sub-project, likely focused on how systems should behave when hardware errors are detected and what baseline management requirements ought to be standardized. In the context of OCP Hardware Management, that probably means aligning low-level debug and diagnostic expectations with broader operational goals like preserving service levels, improving recoverability, and making failures easier to isolate and remediate across a fleet.

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OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call
RAS APINov 12, 2025

OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call

This appears to be another iterative RAS API design session, probably centered on progressing the interface definition after the October meetings. Since the workstream's stated mission is to standardize fault monitoring, reporting, and analysis in a platform-agnostic way, this meeting was likely about tightening semantics and ensuring that implementations can carry the same meaning across different hardware vendors and management stacks.

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OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project call
Hardware Fault ManagementNov 7, 2025

OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project call

This looks like a continuation of the Hardware Fault Management sub-project's effort to define common operational behavior under failure conditions. Given the broader sub-project charter and nearby indexed material, the likely theme was turning abstract fault-management goals into more concrete requirements for diagnosis, debug workflows, and service restoration expectations in production data centers.

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OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call
RAS APIOct 29, 2025

OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call

This meeting seems to have gone deeper into data modeling, with one indexed snippet explicitly calling out that a platform ID must support tracking platform-level error history across the fleet. That strongly suggests the session was focused on core schema and identity questions: how to preserve fault history, correlate events over time, and make RAS data usable for fleet-wide reliability operations instead of only per-device troubleshooting.

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OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project call
Hardware Fault ManagementOct 24, 2025

OCP HM - Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project call

This appears to be a working session inside the Hardware Fault Management stream, which is oriented around baseline requirements for handling hardware failures and standardizing system behavior when faults occur. In practice, this kind of call is likely where the group refines requirements for diagnosis, debug, error handling, and service-level expectations so failures can be managed consistently at component, node, and fleet scale.

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OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call
RAS APIOct 22, 2025

OCP HM - RAS API Workstream call

This looks like an early regular RAS API workstream session focused on standardizing how reliability, availability, and serviceability data should be modeled and exposed. Based on adjacent RAS snippets and the workstream's stated purpose, the likely emphasis was on defining a vendor-neutral interface for reporting and analyzing hardware faults in a way that works consistently across platforms and fleets.

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