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Calculate the trend of new industries and endow them with high-quality development. On August 18, the 2023 China Computing Conference, which is regarded as the authoritative information source and the weather vane of industry trend in China's computing industry, opened in Yinchuan, Ningxia.

As the world's largest provider of computing infrastructure and services, Lenovo was invited to participate in the conference. Liu Jun, executive vice president and president of Lenovo Group in China, attended the opening ceremony and the main forum and delivered a keynote speech. "We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, the intelligent revolution, which gives China the opportunity to overtake around the world through intelligent transformation, relying on the advantages of the industrial chain accumulated by reform and opening up," he said.

(Liu Jun, executive vice president and president of Lenovo Group China, delivered a keynote speech)

According to reports, based on the forward-looking layout of the intelligent transformation strategy, Lenovo has created AI embedded intelligent terminals, AI-oriented infrastructure and AI native program services, forming a full stack intelligent product and program service layout. At this conference, Lenovo Group fully demonstrated the products and services of "full stack intelligent layout" for the first time, at the same time, it released AI computing strategy and two new AI server products, and launched Lenovo Intelligent Computing Center solutions and service core products for the first time.

Liu Jun believes that China will accelerate the formation of an independent and complete AI ecology, and sincerely hopes to join hands with all walks of life to help China's intelligent transformation, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and promote China's high-quality development.

(Lenovo Group Pavilion attracts a large number of visitors)

Plus code breakthrough opens the "new era of AI" for the first time to announce the full stack intelligent layout multiplier, in order to build the foundation and empower with wisdom. At present, the general artificial intelligence technology, represented by ChatGPT, is triggering a new round of technological revolution, and the intelligent transformation of thousands of industries continues to accelerate. At the same time, national and local policies to support the development of artificial intelligence have been introduced intensively, focusing on key points and seeking breakthroughs. The continuous increase of technology and policy is pushing China into a "new era of AI".

(Liu Jun, executive vice president and president of Lenovo Group China, delivered a keynote speech)

Liu Jun believes that the independent and complete AI ecology that will be accelerated presents three major characteristics: first, the terminal has super intelligence, second, mixed architecture computing, and third, AI will be applied in the whole scene of the industry.

The terminal has super intelligence: first of all, the future terminal will embed super computing power; secondly, the interaction between the terminal with AI capability and the user will continue to evolve; third, the super intelligent terminal will cooperate seamlessly with multiple devices, and the end-side AI model will be fully combined with user data to coordinate various applications, thus becoming a super intelligent assistant for users.

Hybrid architecture computing: the training load of AI will sink further from the cloud to the edge and end, and the reasoning load will be reasonably distributed in the cloud, edge and end-to-side, thus forming a cloud / edge / end hybrid architecture. From the deployment model, public domain / private domain / individual can be mixed deployed according to different scenarios; at the same time, the deployment of the intelligent computing center is accelerating, which will form a mixed development pattern of intelligent / supercomputing / general computing power.

AI will be applied in the whole scene of the industry: the wide application of AI in the B side makes the enterprise efficiency improve exponentially.

Lenovo has widely used AI technology in its own intelligent transformation. Taking the production line scene as an example, he said: 80 per cent of the more than 100000 computers produced by Lenovo's Lianbao Technology every day are customized orders with a complexity of about 10 to the 160th power, which is between the complexity of chess and go. After using the machine to schedule production, the daily production scheduling time is reduced from 6 hours to 90 seconds.

Liu Jun said that the forward-looking layout of intelligent change made Lenovo a unique manufacturer of full-stack intelligent products and solution services, and announced the full-stack intelligent layout of Lenovo Group for the first time at the conference-AI embedded intelligent terminals, AI-oriented infrastructure and AI native solution services.

(Lenovo demonstrated its leading numeral products at the 2023 China Computing Conference.)

He specifically mentioned Lenovo's AI-oriented computing infrastructure, which not only leads in performance, but also fully covers cloud and edge computing scenarios, and meets the training and reasoning needs of AI large models and traditional models. In addition, Lenovo has actively applied advanced green technologies such as water cooling to improve the performance of the system by double digits, and the energy cost of the data center has been reduced by up to 40%. It has been applied in many scenarios, such as Shanghai Jiaotong University, Geely Automobile and so on.

According to reports, in the past few years, Lenovo has undergone transformational changes, and the 3s strategy has achieved phased results:

In the intelligent Internet of things business segment, Lenovo is the main global supplier of PC, tablet computers and mobile phones. With the development of intelligence, cloud computers, IoT and other terminal devices are also growing rapidly. In the intelligent infrastructure business sector, Lenovo has become the world's third largest provider of AI infrastructure and servers, with the fastest growth in the top three. In the field of high-performance computing, it has remained the first in the world and China for many years. In the solutions and services business segment, over the past decade, Lenovo has reconstructed the IT architecture and created Lenovo giant, an intelligent IT engine with cloud native / Taiwan, AI intelligence and ESG features. Relying on giant engine, it has helped more than 500 Chinese customers transform their intelligence since 2018, and became the second largest IT service provider in China besides operators last year.

Major release of AI computing strategy and new products comprehensively build AI-oriented infrastructure digital economy era, the impact of computing power as the "underlying driving force" on economic and social development is more extensive and profound, and intelligent computing has become an important development direction of computing infrastructure. Forward-looking layout, long-term strategy, in the "new era of AI", full-stack intelligent advantage needs to have a more solid landing, in order to further accelerate the intelligent transformation of Chinese enterprises.

During the 2023 China Computing Conference, Lenovo Group officially released AI computing strategy and two new AI server products-Lenovo WA7780 G3 AI large model training server and Lenovo WA5480 G3 AI training server.

(Lenovo launches new AI server products)

Chen Zhenkuan, vice president of Lenovo and general manager of the server division of the infrastructure business group in China, said that Lenovo's AI computing strategy is committed to building an AI-oriented infrastructure in an all-round way, with two major characteristics. The first is AI intelligence, that is, 100% computing infrastructure products support AI,50% infrastructure research and development in the field of AI, with comprehensive AI technology covering global AI applications. The second is green enabling, that is, comprehensive layout and leading liquid cooling technology, creating a beacon of liquid cooling cluster scheme, and using green computing infrastructure to promote the sustainable development of intelligent computing industry.

In terms of promoting AI intelligence, after several years of forward-looking intelligent layout reform, Lenovo has achieved global coverage of AI large model and super model training, AI small and medium model training, reasoning and AI reasoning, with parameters ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of billions. At the same time, there are more than 60 infrastructure products that support artificial intelligence applications, including servers, storage and so on.

Green enabling refers to the core goal of greening the computing power generated by increasing power consumption per watt. Lenovo has made a comprehensive layout and led the development and application of key liquid cooling technologies. At present, it can flexibly apply air-cooled mixing, full liquid cooling, whole cabinet liquid cooling and single-phase immersion mainstream liquid cooling technology. In the future, Lenovo will focus on the four major technological directions of kilowatt chip heat dissipation, memory liquid cooling coverage, cabinet energy efficiency and immersion liquid cooling, and will continue to innovate and lead the future liquid cooling technology.

(Chen Zhenkuan, vice president of Lenovo Group and general manager of China Infrastructure Business Group Server Division)

The two newly released servers are based on AI-oriented products that can help build a greener and more efficient artificial intelligence data center to meet customers' computing needs ranging from training to reasoning. Among them, Lenovo WA7780 G3 is a server specially built for AI model training; Lenovo WA5480 G3 AI training and push integrated server, which supports multiple computing power and rich ecology, and can provide extremely reliable computing power for AI model training and reasoning.

In the future, Lenovo WA7780 G3 AI large-scale training server and Lenovo WA5480 G3 AI integrated training server will be multi-directional empowered with Lenovo's other AI infrastructure portfolio.

Support for three types of computing scenarios mixed computing launched the core products of the intelligent computing center for the first time, with the accelerated construction of the intelligent computing center, hybrid architecture computing has become an industry trend. The relevant departments of the state have also made it clear that they will continue to empower scientific and technological innovation in the face of the need to strengthen computing support in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and big data.

At the press conference, Dai Wei, vice president of Lenovo Group and general manager of China Program Services Business Group, officially announced that he would support the hybrid computing needs of three types of scenarios (general computing, smart computing, and supercomputing) in three delivery methods.

(Dai Wei, vice president of Lenovo Group and general manager of China Program Service Group)

These three delivery methods include: hybrid Cloud, Computing Services 2.0 subscription and one-stop shop. The hybrid cloud will help build a multi-cloud management platform and a cloud-based multi-core management platform, subscription-based computing service 2.0 will help achieve fine delivery of computing power, and one-stop construction and services will provide the "turnkey project" of the intelligent computing center.

As the core component of Lenovo solution services, Lenovo xCloud Lenovo Hybrid Cloud provides comprehensive technical support for three types of computing and hybrid computing architectures, supporting "one cloud multi-core" and multi-dimensional in-depth services. Lenovo Computing Service 2.0 provides technical support for fine operations of cloud business management, as well as one-stop construction and services. Compared with 1.0, Lenovo Computing Service 2.0 adds domestic computing power and platform service capabilities, covering AI services, middleware services, database services and metacosmos services.

At the press conference, Lenovo Group launched Lenovo Intelligence Center solutions and service core products for the first time, including: three major types of solutions-Lenovo brain embedded solutions, Lenovo hybrid cloud solutions, Lenovo green low-carbon computing center infrastructure; two major types of services-end-to-end full-cycle Lenovo computing center services and on-demand subscription, flexible payment Lenovo computing service 2.0.

(Lenovo Group launched Lenovo Intelligence Center solutions and service core products for the first time.)

According to reports, the solution of Lenovo brain embedding is the grasp of the computing service of Lenovo Intelligence Center, which is widely used in finance, education, manufacturing, energy and other industries. Lenovo hybrid cloud solution is the cloud base that supports the intelligent computing center. It contains computing resources of universal computing, supercomputing and intelligent computing. It is a hybrid cloud solution for scheduling and unified deployment of hybrid computing resources. The infrastructure of Lenovo Green low-carbon Intelligence Center is committed to helping customers build a green and low-carbon Intelligence Center.

Among the two major services, the former provides end-to-end companionship services from consulting design to system operation around the construction of the center, while Lenovo's 2.0 service uses an innovative business model of on-demand subscription and flexible payment to help reduce the cost of investment in the center.

In addition, Lenovo has also established a strong service support system, which is currently equipped with more than 20,000 professional engineers and more than 3600 service stations across the country, providing 50,000 service delivery capacity every day.

In response to the national strategic layout to speed up the intelligent transformation of thousands of industries, Ningxia, as one of the eight major calculation hubs of the country, the landing of the project of "calculation of the East and the West" has naturally become a topic of widespread concern. In the process of continuously promoting intelligence, Lenovo, which aims at serving the country by industry, has never forgotten its mission.

At present, Lenovo has laid out green data center resources in computing hub nodes in western countries such as Ningxia, and has joined hands with many parties to create a number of industry benchmarking projects. Among them, the western part includes Zijinyun public high-performance platform located in Gansu and Lenovo computing service (Zhongwei) base in Ningxia.

Zijinyun public computing platform not only undertakes the collaborative hub function of the western and eastern regions, but also transports advanced computing power between the end-edge cloud networks in the face of the computing and storage resource needs of the northwest region. The peak computing speed of the first phase of the platform system reaches 2730 trillion times per second. This achievement is an important step for realizing the landing of the East and the West in Gansu.

Lenovo Zhongwei service base is the first Lenovo service base built by Lenovo, which has created a precedent for the subscription model of computing service. In this service model, customers can pay quarterly, monthly, or even according to the actual use of power, which also greatly reduces the financial pressure caused by the rapid growth of the demand for computing power.

(Lenovo Group showcases leading warm water-cooled servers)

At the same time, Lenovo Group actively promotes the application of warm water cooling technology in the construction of East and West math, so as to create a green, efficient and agile data center for customers. Lenovo Poseidon warm water cooling system can reduce the data center PUE to less than 1.1 and achieve more than 80% waste heat recovery.

It is understood that the existing data center layout of Lenovo Group is highly consistent with that of the East and West Computing Network Hub nodes, and has initially completed the layout of green data center resources in Ningxia, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other western regions. at the same time, in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area and other eastern regions, joint partners actively layout to constantly meet the needs of thousands of banks and industries in the process of intelligence.

In fact, with full-stack smart layout, as the main smart solution service provider in China, Lenovo has been able to provide a number of vertical industries and fields. including smart city, smart park, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent transportation, smart education, smart energy, smart finance and so on.

Today, Lenovo Group has formed an intelligent transformation framework, an intelligent maturity model, an intelligent transformation planning package (including maturity assessment, intelligent transformation training and intelligent transformation consulting) and a new IT stack full-cycle service (including new IT products, solution deployment, continuous operation and maintenance services). Comprehensively help the intelligent transformation of a wide range of industries.

(Lenovo Group Pavilion attracts a large number of visitors)

Lenovo Group focused on the display of the full stack of intelligent products and solutions services, but also presented a hard computing power feast, digital feast for the conference site. Among them, the intelligent terminals embedded in AI are intelligent PC, XR terminal equipment, intelligent robot, etc., and the AI-oriented infrastructure includes the just released 8-card NVLink AI server, edge computing devices supporting artificial intelligence applications, storage, etc. AI's native solution services include Lenovo brain, Lenovo hybrid cloud, intelligent computing center solutions, smart computing services, Lenovo computing services, as well as Lenovo solutions and benchmarking cases in vertical industries such as smart manufacturing, smart park, smart city, digital travel and so on.

Intelligence is coming, and AI ecology is speeding up. Lenovo will pay close attention to the future forward-looking technology and development trends, actively explore and lead the intelligent transformation, and jointly build an open and integrated AI ecology with a full-stack intelligent layout in the "new era of AI", so as to help Chinese enterprises to "overtake at the corner" on the intelligent transformation track.

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