Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance

Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure. To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a PCI Express (PCIe) card that can turn almost any commodity server into a time appliance. With the help of the OCP community, we [...] Read More... The post Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance appeared first on Facebook Engineering.
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