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In 2020, we had an unusual start. But those troubles will not hinder the progress of technology and the exploration of the future. 2020 is bound to be the key node in the development curve of AI technology and industrial intelligence. Looking up at the pace of the starry sky with AI will not stagnate because of the slight delay of the epidemic.

This is like MWC2020 (World Mobile Communications Congress 2020), although the offline exhibition was suspended due to the epidemic, but it still did not affect this year's event to show us the future in more ways.

At 12:00 local time in London on February 25th, the technology industry's annual award ceremony, MWC 2020, awarded the GLOMO Global Mobile Awards. Huawei Atlas 900AI cluster, which is no stranger to Chinese technology enthusiasts, won the Future Technology Award (Tech of the Future Award).

GLOMO is also called "the Oscar of science and technology" by netizens, which aims to reward those technologies, products, enterprises and individuals who have outstanding performance in the mobile communication industry. The Future Technology Award is a new award set up by GLOMO for the first time this year to recognize technology that is ahead of time and enough to reshape the world. Doesn't that sound a little science fiction?

So the question is, why did this new award go to Atlas 900? Just "debut" half a year Atlas 900 won this honor, what are the implications for AI technology and intelligence industry? How will the technology recognized by GLOMO as enough to reshape the world eventually change our lives?

Let's personify it and imagine that the Atlas 900s are on the podium of the Technology Oscars. What kind of acceptance speech would Ta give?

This trophy is for the future only.

According to the usual practice, the winner should first thank the award and the meaning behind the award.

This topic leads to an interesting discussion: why GLOMO set up the Future Science and Technology Award this year. From the history of the development of the mobile industry, technology and product form has experienced a long stable cycle. No matter the operator system, the enterprise network system and the consumer system, they all iterate forward in the stable industrial logic.

However, when the hour hand points to the 1920s of the 21st century, profound and thorough changes are taking place in the mobile communication and pan-technology industry. Communication technology is deeply integrated with information technology and intelligent technology, more and more exchanges have taken place between C-end market and B-end market, and there is a profound convergence between technology systems. And this series of changes seem to bring the human technological world back to the exciting origin of the technological revolution: autopilot is on its way; AI is exploring the universe to measure genes; IoT devices will provide ubiquitous services for human beings; and the boundaries between the physical world and the real world are being eliminated.

At this moment, we have every reason to pay more attention to the future, to the technological revolution that will happen next, and to see how technological integration and innovation can reshape the world. So GLOMO, which is famous for its strict hard core, chose to dedicate the new award to the future and the technological spark that surpasses the times in 2020.

The GLOMO jury believes that the Future Technology Awards provide the industry with a platform to highlight dynamic innovation and technological progress, including, but not limited to, new technologies in fashion, healthcare, education, enterprise and consumer industries. The possibilities in these areas may still be endless.

So how does the first-time award-winning Atlas 900meet the three expectations of "surpassing the times", "reshaping the world" and "not as much as possible"?

Artificial intelligence technology is undoubtedly the main axis of technological convergence in the future, the core of changing production relations in various industries and fields, and the key for human beings to explore the future. And the limit of the development of artificial intelligence depends to a great extent on the limit of computing power. Therefore, the Atlas 900s, which can provide the maximum AI computing power, naturally come across the Future Science and Technology Award.

The jury's award-winning comment on Huawei's Atlas 900AI cluster was: "it uses the latest technology to provide incredible speed and performance with the lowest carbon emissions, creating a platform that can promote not only the mobile industry, but also industry-wide application development."

The self-introduction of a hard-core force.

The second part of the acceptance speech is generally a slightly humble self-introduction, as well as a review of previous work.

But even if you look at the record of the Atlas 900s from the most objective perspective, it is hard for the hardcore to be modest. The reason is also very simple, because similar large-scale AI cluster exploration is extremely rare, and as of the time of the award, Atlas 900is still the largest provider of AI computing power on the planet.

At HUAWEI CONNECT last September, Hu Houyi, vice chairman of Huawei, launched the world's fastest AI training cluster, Atlas 900. This AI cluster, composed of thousands of Huawei Teng 910 AI processors, integrates three high-speed interfaces of HCCS, PCIe 4.0 and 100G RoCE through Huawei trunking communication library and job scheduling platform, and can achieve AI training computing power of 256P~1024P FLOPS @ FP16, which is equivalent to the computing power of 500000 PC, and can be clustered and extended continuously.

In data set testing, Atlas 900 is the only computing carrier in the world that can complete Resnet-50 model training in 60 seconds, 15 per cent faster than second place.

In terms of clustering and network transmission, the Atlas 900 carries Huawei's massive technical achievements in the field of connectivity. It adopts three types of high-speed interconnection modes of "HCCS, PCIe 4.0G and 100G Ethernet". Based on the CloudEngine series of data center switches, it creates a 100 TB full interconnection and non-blocking exclusive parameter synchronization network, which can effectively reduce the network delay and reduce the parameter synchronization delay by 10% to 70%, making the training process of the Al model more efficient.

In terms of environmental protection, which is very important in the selection of GLOMO, Atlas 900has created a top cooling system in the industry. It adopts a mixed liquid cooling scheme and designs the strongest cabinet-level airtight insulation technology in the industry, supporting more than 95% of the liquid cooling ratio. The single cabinet supports ultra-high heat dissipation up to 50kW, achieving data center energy efficiency with PUE less than 1.1. At the same time, 79% of the computer room space can be saved compared with the 8kW air-cooled cabinet, which greatly reduces the user's TCO.

The AI processing capabilities of high computing power, efficient connection and low power consumption constitute the unique capabilities of Atlas 900s. What really fascinates GLOMO and countless followers is the display of these abilities in the real world.

When Atlas 900 breaks through its ultimate computing power and meets the opportunity of AI technology to solve human problems, an encounter to reshape the world begins.

I intend to soar the sky, so why not go to Qingyun?

When Atlas 900 holds an Oscar in the technology world, what the public wants to hear most may be what "new works" Ta will bring to us in the future.

In the industrial layout, national strategy and scientific research judgment of countries all over the world, artificial intelligence technology is undoubtedly the focus of this stage of development. The reason is that, as a low-level general technology, AI can effectively change the production efficiency of various industrial fields, and at the same time help solve the main problems in human development.

Such as autopilot, astronomical detection, gene decryption, can not do without AI technology, let alone AI computing. The fastest AI computing means shorter training time and more computing opportunities. The real meaning of Atlas 900is to provide mankind with a new key to solve the mysteries of the future.

For example, the Atlas 900 can shorten deep learning model training that used to take hours or even days to minutes or even seconds. The change in this capability has greatly improved the efficiency of AI fusion in very important areas, such as real-time oil exploration, accurate weather forecasting, autopilot, video image rendering, space exploration, gene sequencing, high-frequency trading, complex scientific simulation and so on.

On the date of its release, Atlas 900announced a partnership with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project to explore the universe. The SKA project began in 1993 to build the world's largest radio telescope. This project is expected to generate the amount of data of 600PB every year, which brings numerous redundant data analysis work. But with the help of Atlas 900, the speed of deciphering the starry sky has been greatly improved. The traditional manual method requires a senior astronomer to work for 169 days of star data, and Atlas 900 can be parsed in 10 seconds, which shows the reshaping value of Atlas 900 in these particularly important areas.

At present, Atlas 900 has begun to launch more and more industrial applications. For example, in November last year, Huawei and Pengcheng Laboratory jointly announced that the first phase of Pengcheng Yunnao Ⅱ will use Atlas 900AI cluster as the AI computing base to support all kinds of basic research and exploration in AI fields such as computer vision, natural language, self-driving, intelligent transportation, intelligent medical treatment and so on.

Taken together, Atlas 900s meet the core expectations of the GLOMO Future Technology Awards in three directions:

1. Based on Huawei's advantages of full-stack and full-scene AI, and the integration of Atlas products, Atlas 900 can give full play to the value of exploring AI applications in various industries and scenarios.

2. The maximum AI computing power to break through the limit, so that Atlas 900 can help AI exploration and research break through the underlying limitations, and provide the possibility for human beings to solve major problems with the help of AI technology.

3. Atlas 900, which is open to industry in various ways and actively carries out industrial exploration, can realize the generalization of AI technology, make AI computing fairer, make AI more environmentally friendly, and thus extend positive and important social values.

From the date of its birth, the positioning of the Atlas 900 has been destined to be extraordinary. Of course, extraordinary expectations should be accompanied by extraordinary actions, and it is natural to win extraordinary awards. We look forward to winning the "Science and Technology Oscars", Atlas 900 will be able to present more "works" to make science fiction a reality, to surpass the times and reshape the world.

I intend to soar to the sky, so why not go to Qingyun?

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