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"now is the era of profiteering computing regardless of any cost, extensive development at the same time everyone is scrambling for GPU, this must be unsustainable in the future."

"the first thing to provide computing services is to help customers analyze these complex application scenarios clearly, and on this basis, help customers build a hybrid architecture with an optimal cost structure."

"Smart computing scenarios will continue to promote the upgrading of computing requirements."

"Intelligence used to pay more attention to big data, but now it is more and more clear that it can be defined as an artificial intelligence-driven industry model."

"in the process of the construction of the intelligent computing center, the mixed architecture model has become an industry trend, and the intelligent computing scenario will continue to promote the upgrading of the demand for computing power. The leading technical framework and accompanying services throughout the process have become the key to the construction of the intelligent computing center." At the 2023 China Computing (Infrastructure) Conference held on August 18, Dai Wei, vice president of Lenovo Group and general manager of Lenovo's solution Services Business Group in China, aimed at the core issues related to hybrid computing at the conference, a large number of forward-looking views in the industry have been exported.

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

As a new productive force in the era of digital economy, computing power has become an important support for the high-quality development of economy and society. At present, high computing chips such as large model training and reasoning continue to iteratively upgrade, multivariate heterogeneous computing technologies accelerate the popularity, and intelligent computing scenarios continue to emerge, which pose a severe challenge to the supply of high-performance computing power. The computing problems encountered in the process of intelligent transformation of enterprises are also becoming more and more prominent.

Dai Wei pointed out: "now is the era of violent computing regardless of any cost, extensive development at the same time everyone is scrambling for GPU, this must be unsustainable in the future." Whether it is the digital transformation of traditional enterprises or a new generation of artificial intelligence startups, the race track is still in its early stages. In order to train the model and allow applications to land, there are bound to be countless pits. Time, manpower, investment and other multiple costs are difficult to predict. Enterprises need full stack services related to computing power to solve urgent needs, while Lenovo is based on its own long-term accumulation in the process of digital transformation in the field of industrial Internet. Always play the role of such service provider.

The calculation power deepens the ability to do all kinds of industries, and the "3x3" delivery model solves the difficult problem of transformation.

Based on the pain points of the current intelligent transformation of enterprises, Dai Wei released a new "3D3 delivery model" at the meeting: "Lenovo solution services will support the hybrid computing needs of three types of computing scenarios (smart computing, hypercomputing, and general computing) in three delivery modes (hybrid cloud, Zhonghua service 2.0 subscription and one-stop)." At the same time, the meeting also announced the extensive needs of three types of hybrid computing power, including public and private clouds, domestic chips and general chips, general computing and scientific computing and intelligent computing, in the construction of intelligent computing centers, relying on the "end-side-cloud-net-intelligence" new IT architecture and intelligent IT engine "Qiantian" to create end-to-end intelligent computing center solutions and full-stack full-cycle services.

"in the past, Lenovo has not released both blockbuster products and new solutions at a press conference." Dai Wei stressed that this time Lenovo has made an exception for arithmetic, which also shows the importance of arithmetic for Lenovo and the industry. Lenovo became the second largest IT service provider in China after operators last year, and this achievement also stems from Lenovo's deep insight into the pain points of the intelligent transformation of enterprises.

"many of the customers we come into contact with are not only smart computing needs, but also general computing requirements or even supercomputing requirements, how to build a hybrid architecture, and how to manage a multi-cloud-managed platform. are the challenges faced by enterprises in the process of intelligent transformation. In addition, the customer's computing pool will certainly have a number of foreign and domestic heterogeneous chips in the future, and the collaborative management between them is also a very complex problem. To provide computing services, we should first help customers analyze these complex application scenarios clearly, and on this basis, help customers build a hybrid architecture with an optimal cost structure. " Dai Wei pointed out the core reason behind the launch of the "3x3 delivery model". The reason for being able to understand customer pain points so thoroughly is that Lenovo is the "demand side" itself. "We are faced with the problem of coordination between domestic public clouds and foreign public clouds, and how to achieve unified management of multiple clouds is also a problem that we have to solve," Dai said. So under endogenesis and externalization, the hybrid cloud service platform provided by Lenovo almost covers the mainstream public cloud, which can solve the problem of customer cloud native and multi-cloud management. "

Not long ago, Lenovo Group said it would invest more than 7 billion yuan in research and development in the next three years, a considerable part of which is invested in software, according to Dai Wei. With this wave of changes in intelligent computing power, Lenovo's positioning is no longer just server manufacturers, in the long-term layout of all services, Lenovo is also through "endogenesis and externalization" to help enterprises continue to increase the number of intelligent transformation.

Intelligent computing power has become a new engine of growth, and endogenesis and externalization will open a new chapter of intelligent computing.

Data show that the total scale of computing power in China has maintained an annual growth rate of about 30 percent, and intelligent computing power accounts for more than half of the new computing facilities, making it a new engine of computing power growth. 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. Dai Wei also expressed his views on this, saying: "the intelligent computing scene will continue to promote the upgrading of the demand for numeracy." Lenovo is also continuously upgrading the intelligent computing service capability of the iterative Lenovo solution service for intelligent computing scenarios through the strategy of "endogenous externalization".

Lenovo hybrid cloud solution, as the core of Lenovo Intelligence Center solution, is a typical endogenous and exogenous product. Dai Wei said: "now the whole group hybrid cloud is based on Lenovo hybrid cloud solution platform, including research, production, supply, marketing, service and so on. At present, its main application scenario is intelligent manufacturing. Lenovo's complex supply chain system formed by more than 30 factories around the world, with the help of hybrid cloud platform, has improved its overall efficiency by 50%, greatly shortening the time of the supply chain."

In addition, thanks to this hybrid cloud platform, Lenovo's application of AI in many scenarios has been realized, such as customer service. It is understood that Lenovo's domestic online server traffic is about 15 million, but there are less than 400 manual seats, and more than half of the workload is handled by intelligent robots. Another example is supply chain scheduling. Take PC as an example, Lenovo's notebook scheduling can achieve a minimum of 5 orders, all thanks to the strong Lenovo hybrid cloud platform supporting intelligent computing scenarios represented by AI. In response, Dai Wei said: "now Lenovo's intelligence from end, edge, cloud and network to the top has formed a relatively perfect new IT technology framework. In the past, the intelligence here was more focused on big data, but now it is more and more clear that it can be defined as an artificial intelligence-driven industry model."

At the externalization level, according to Dai Wei, Lenovo helped Geely create the "Star Smart Computing Center Intelligent Simulation platform", setting a precedent for the combination of supercomputing and xCloud cloud computing, so that supercomputing can help business applications more flexibly, opened the road of "smart building" of vehicle simulation design, and created the largest simulation scientific computing cluster built at one time among the known automobile manufacturing enterprises in China. Since 2018, Lenovo solution service has helped more than 500 Chinese customers achieve intelligent transformation, accumulating a lot of representative successful cases.

Recently, Lenovo Group announced the results of the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 to June 30, 2023. Lenovo Group SSG solution Services business revenue maintained strong growth, an increase of 18% compared with the same period last year, with an operating profit margin of 21%. As a practitioner and enabler of enterprise intelligence transformation, Lenovo solution Services is continuing to help Chinese enterprises open a new chapter in smart computing through the core competence of full-stack intelligence. Press the acceleration key of digital China construction together with the customers of Qianhang Baiye.

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