2026-10-12
Meta launches liquid-cooled rack, new network fabric at OCP Summit 2026
At the 2026 OCP Global Summit, Meta says it introduced IcePack, its first liquid-cooled network rack, alongside the IceCube 102.4T switch platform, the Flattened Planar Fabric for GPU networking, and an open-source transport protocol called MetaRoCE, per engineering.fb.com.
What else the source says
- IcePack is described as Meta's first liquid-cooled network rack
- IceCube is a 102.4T switch platform
- Flattened Planar Fabric (FPF) is a multiplane backend scale-out fabric for GPU networking
- MetaRoCE is an open-source AI transport protocol
- Announcements were made at the OCP Global Summit 2026
Why it matters
Meta is pushing open hardware standards to keep pace with AI infrastructure demand.
Source. engineering.fb.com
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- First seen Oct 12, 2026, 2:31 PM PT
- Published Oct 12, 2026, 4:34 PM PT, 2.1 h after first seen
- Source engineering.fb.com (Press)