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August 18 - 19,2023 China Computing (Infrastructure) Conference was held in Yinchuan, Ningxia. With the theme of "leading the trend of new industries and empowering high-quality development," this conference focuses on the cutting-edge technology field of computing power, displays the application achievements of computing power integration, and promotes the accelerated development of computing power industry. As a representative manufacturer in the field of computing infrastructure, Inspur Information attended this conference and demonstrated a batch of innovative product technologies of data center including modular intelligent computing center, liquid cooling cabinet, G7 new generation computing platform, converged architecture, one cloud and multiple cores, etc.

Inspur Information Appears at 2023 China Computing Conference

Computing power is productivity, and computing power affects the quality and efficiency of digital economic development.

In the age of wisdom, computing power is productivity. Like water and electricity, computing power has penetrated into all fields of production and life. It is injecting new kinetic energy into the digital transformation of all walks of life in a new form of productivity and becoming an important driving force for the high-quality development of economy and society. Its development speed and quality will directly affect the quality and effectiveness of the development of digital economy.

In recent years, the scale of China's computing power industry has grown rapidly, and the hierarchical optimized computing power supply system has been initially constructed, which strongly supports the rapid development of digital economy. According to the 2022-2023 Global Computing Power Index Assessment Report, the overall server market scale in China will still maintain a positive growth rate of 6.9% in 2022, with shipments of 3.768 million units and sales of USD 27 billion, accounting for 25% of the global market, ranking second only to the United States. Under the action of computing power, productivity has been released unprecedentedly, and the value of computing power in expanding new space for economic development and promoting sustained growth of economic aggregate is undoubtedly prominent. For every average increase of 1 point in the computing power index, the country's digital economy and GDP will increase by 3.6‰ and 1.7‰ respectively. Computing power capital can form complementary and synergistic effects with traditional capital. Increasing investment related to computing power in a country or region can bring about economic growth, and this growth is long-term.

Release the diversified value of computing power, fusion architecture is the key, one cloud and multiple cores are the starting point

In the era of digitalization and intelligence, computing power is playing an increasingly important role in the fields of production organization, scientific and technological innovation, social governance, improvement of people's livelihood, etc. However, with the closer integration of digital technology and physical world, the computing scenarios of real production environment become more and more diverse, and the computing architecture becomes more and more complex. For example, scientific research requires extremely high computing accuracy and requires high-performance and strong logical computing power. Artificial intelligence has relatively low requirements for computational accuracy, but it has higher requirements for parallel computing performance; large data requires near-data computing, and the demand for storage and computing integration is stronger. Diversification has become an important trend in the development of computing power.

However, the diversification of computing power faces multiple challenges in terms of technology, ecology and business in actual implementation. From the technical point of view, it is necessary to solve the problem of interconnection and intercommunication of different computing resources, realize efficient integration and flexibility of multiple computing power, and make computing power really available on demand like water and electricity; from the ecological point of view, it is necessary to solve the dilemma of ecological dispersion and lack of standards of chip industry, get through the "last kilometer" from chip to computing power, and realize high-quality computing service through standardization of computing power; From the business point of view, preventing supply chain risks requires increasing the sources of computing power supply, but how to resolve the system risks brought by the integration and even integration of multiple computing power and ensure business continuity is the top priority.

Zhang Dong, chief scientist of Inspur Yunhai, believes that to release the value of multi-computing power, we should vigorously develop the integration architecture of scene-driven "hardware reconstruction + software definition" from the overall thinking of "application-oriented and system-centered," realize efficient integration and scene definition of multi-computing power through highly collaborative optimization of software and hardware, promote innovation of various digital businesses and promote high-quality development of digital economy.

A cloud with multiple cores leads the development of computing power

At present, Inspur Information has made breakthrough progress in the development of converged architecture. The newly released converged architecture 3.0 prototype system has completely decoupled and pooled core IT resources such as computing resources, storage resources, memory resources and heterogeneous acceleration resources with groundbreaking system architecture design. It supports asynchronous upgrade of pooled resources, supports fine-grained multi-host sharing with high concurrent storage, sub-microsecond remote memory sharing access and other characteristics."One set of system, N-type application" can be realized through software definition, accelerating the integration of cloud, digital, intelligent, edge and end digital technologies.

As the core of the fusion architecture software definition system, Inspur Information has completed a number of key technological breakthroughs of "one cloud and multiple cores" on the cloud operating system, which can realize the unified pooling of computing resources such as general computing power, heterogeneous computing power and dedicated computing power as well as storage and network resources, and realize highly automatic distribution of computing power and load scheduling through architecture adaptive perception scheduling. At present, Yunhai OS has completed the industry's first SPEC Cloud benchmark test for a cloud multi-core scenario. In the cluster test of mixed deployment of three processor nodes, indicators such as relative scalability and average instance configuration time have reached the global leading level, verifying the high efficiency, high performance and high scalability of Yunhai OS under the cross-processor architecture scenario of business applications.

Zhang Dong said: "One cloud multi-core will become a key link in the IT industry chain. The nano tube adapts to various chips and operating systems at the bottom, is compatible with various types of virtual machines, containers, databases and middleware, and supports the operation of various cloud native applications and software. It is one of the core capabilities of the future cloud computing platform. It is not only the integration of core and cloud, but also the collaboration of platform + ecology." "

Three concepts continue to lead the development of one cloud and multiple cores

A cloud multi-core usually refers to an integrated cloud computing architecture that uses a cloud operating system to manage hardware service clusters such as different types of chips, architectures, interfaces, and technology stacks, encapsulating hardware into standard computing power, and providing customers with consistent cloud computing services. The ultimate goal of a multi-core cloud is to support low-cost or free switching of user services between processors of different architectures. Therefore, Inspur Information advocates the development concept of "application-oriented, system-centered,""layered decoupling, open standard" and "iterative innovation and continuous evolution" to promote the continuous innovation and popularization of one cloud and multiple cores.

On the design side, Inspur Information is application-oriented and system-centered, realizing scene-driven software and hardware collaborative design, covering application, system, hardware design, etc.

On the technology side, Inspur Information emphasizes the "layered decoupling" of resource layer, platform layer and application layer, so as to realize independent scalability of each layer regardless of architecture. At the same time, adhere to the open technology route, through standardized protocols, APIs, services, to achieve interoperability and interoperability of resources.

On the product side, Inspur Information takes three steps of "have-good-excellent" to realize the continuous evolution and ecological prosperity of one-cloud multi-core products. The first stage is to realize mixed deployment, unified management and unified view to solve the problem of "yes"; the second stage is to realize business traction, layered decoupling and architecture upgrading to solve the problem of "good"; the third stage is to realize calculation standard, full-stack multi-core and ecological co-construction to solve the problem of "excellent".

Zhang Dong said that the current development of multi-core cloud is moving from the first stage to the second stage, and the second and third stages are still in the exploration period. Under the background of current industrial chain restructuring, promoting the concept of multi-core technology in one cloud is not simply a product landing, but requires chip manufacturers, complete machine manufacturers, cloud service providers and users at the application end to understand and practice this concept, and finally form an ecological standard recognized by the industry to jointly achieve the ultimate goal of multi-core technology in one cloud.

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