The motherboard Shifter showed off a pair of high-density rigs designed to run hotter, faster, and leaner — provided your power bill can take the punch. Both platforms lean heavily on AMD’s EPYC 9005 series chips and use OCP’s DC-MHS architecture, which apparently makes them more open and modular.

MSI general manager of enterprise platform solutions Danny Hsu said: “We are excited to be part of open-source innovation and sustainability through our contributions to the Open Compute Project.” He added MSI was all about “advancing open standards” and promised it could “rapidly develop products tailored to specific customer requirements.”

First up was the Open Compute CD281-S4051-X2, a 21-inch 2OU 2-node server kitted out with AMD’s latest silicon and capable of chugging away at 500W per node. It supports twelve DDR5 DIMMs, twelve PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives, and includes Extended Volume Air Cooling, or EVAC.

The other rig, the Core Compute CD270-S4051-X4, stuffs four nodes into a 2U frame, each with a single AMD EPYC 9005 processor, twelve DIMMs, and three NVMe bays. It features 400W cooling per node.

Both machines use the ORv3 48VDC power architecture, presumably so hyperscale data centres can save on cable thickness while running workloads hotter than a vindaloo.

MSI claimed it is still a proud OCP Solution Provider, which means it gets to slap “OCP Inspired” labels on a bunch of its boxes. Apparently, that reinforces its “ability to rapidly deliver custom solutions,” though how many hyperscalers are  biting remains unclear.