Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

In recent years, with the rise of a new generation of artificial intelligence technology represented by ChatGPT, it opens the prelude to the practical application of general artificial intelligence AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) in the industry. The rush of AGI also brings people more thinking: behind the popularity, will AGI go deep into industry applications from the public domain? Is there any regularity in the infiltration and transformation of various industries by AGI? What kind of mathematical basis is needed for the development of AGI?

With the above questions, on November 20, Lenovo's first digital and live dialogue program "AI Talk" was officially launched, and Lenovo Vice President Chen Zhenkuan's "Digital split" and "in the Frontline" Lao Liang launched a debate about "how will AGI affect our work and life?" To jointly explore the future wind direction of the AGI era.

* the digital human model is trained by Lenovo ThinkSystem ST650 V2 server.

AI Awakening: stepping into reality and reshaping the Future

Throughout the history of the development of human science and technology, every major breakthrough in science and technology will bring about profound changes in productive forces and great progress in human society. General artificial Intelligence (AGI) is an artificial intelligence system that can think, learn and perform a variety of tasks like human beings. Compared with the current popular artificial intelligence technology, AGI is a more comprehensive, general and independent artificial intelligence, which may reach the level of human intelligence.

Chen Zhenkuan believes that "the 'awakening' of artificial intelligence and the emergence of intelligence will once again completely change the mode of production of human society, and even completely change the way human beings live. Artificial intelligence will eventually become something like water and electricity, the underlying engine of all industries, but this is a long-term process."

Chen Zhenkuan, vice president of Lenovo Group, "digital avatar"

In the initial stage of the development of general artificial intelligence, AGI will achieve breakthroughs in industries and enterprises from two directions, replacing basic work, releasing human resources and improving the level of human application of artificial intelligence. The improvement of the whole level of human intelligence, coupled with the release of a large number of manpower, has formed the basis for a new round of great development of human society.

Behind this change, computing power, as the core support of artificial intelligence technology, its demand is also showing a diversified trend. On the one hand, the traditional single computing architecture has been difficult to meet the needs of artificial intelligence technology. With the complexity of the algorithm model and the increase of the amount of data, new technologies such as heterogeneous computing, edge computing and quantum computing have become a trend. On the other hand, different scenarios and different enterprises have different requirements for the architecture and accuracy of computing power.

In the face of diversified demand for computing power, IDC predicts that by 2026, China's intelligent computing power will have a compound annual growth rate of 52.3 percent, which is three times the growth rate of general computing power. Behind the surging winds and clouds is AGI's huge demand for computing infrastructure.

Focus on "Green" and "Intelligence" to build a Green Digital Foundation

This year, China issued the Action Plan for the High quality Development of Computing Infrastructure, which puts forward the quantitative indicators of the development of computing infrastructure by 2025 from the four aspects of computing power, carrying capacity, storage capacity and application enablement. In terms of computing power, the scale of computing power exceeds 300EFLOPS, and the proportion of intelligent computing power reaches 35%. In terms of storage capacity, the total storage exceeds 1800EB, and advanced storage capacity accounts for more than 30%. Based on this, China's computing industry urgently needs to be prepared to meet the explosive rise in the demand for computing power in the AGI era.

Intelligent applications require matching intelligent computing power, while AI computing infrastructure designs and optimizes computing power structures according to the characteristics of data and algorithms. In this regard, Chen Zhenkuan said that Lenovo's AI computing strategy, starting from the two major characteristics of "AI intelligence and green empowerment", comprehensively build an AI-oriented infrastructure, improve the overall layout of Lenovo's intelligent infrastructure with Lenovo server dual brands, and promote the realization of "Puhui" computing power in the future. The "AI intelligence" of Lenovo's new AI computing strategy is to enable 100% computing infrastructure products to support AI. In the process of achieving this goal, 50% of infrastructure research and development is invested in the field of AI, and AI technology covers global AI applications.

In addition, the outbreak of general artificial intelligence applications not only brings the shortage of computing power supply, but also brings extremely high power consumption. In the face of the current trend of low-carbon transformation in the computing industry, Chen Zhenkuan said that the goal of "double carbon" is not only a concept of environmental protection for the computing industry, but also requires technological empowerment.

Lenovo leads the all-round development of liquid cooling technology with more than ten years of technology accumulation and innovation ability, and actively distributes it into the products, using green computing infrastructure to promote the low-carbon development of the computing industry. Lenovo's liquid cooling technology covers air-liquid cooling mixing, whole liquid cooling, whole cabinet liquid cooling, single-phase immersion liquid cooling mainstream liquid cooling technology. At the same time, Lenovo continues to develop and lead the future liquid cooling technology to solve the future kilowatt chip heat dissipation problem, improve memory liquid cooling coverage efficiency, and explore the ultimate energy efficiency.

In practical application, the Poseidon warm water cooling technology independently developed by Lenovo reduces the PUE to 1.1, and the heat dissipation efficiency can be as high as 98%. In the field of education and scientific research, Lenovo uses warm water cooling technology to help the "Siyuan No. 1" high-performance computing cluster built by Shanghai Jiaotong University, the computing density is 5 times that of the general computing center, and the required computer room area is only 1.1 times that of the general computer room. In the field of meteorology, Lenovo joined hands with the Beijing Meteorological Bureau to help the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games by building 800 high-performance computing systems for water temperature and water cooling to achieve a higher standard of weather forecast in the history of winter Olympic events with accuracy to the minutes and 100 meters. It is worth mentioning that at the recently concluded "2023 Super Computing Conference", Lenovo ranked first in China's HPC TOP100 share for the ninth time and won the "2023 China Mathematical Power Leader" award; in the latest global HPC TOP500 list released by SC2023, Lenovo ranked first for the 12th time with 169sets of shares, proving the strength of the industry with leading technology.

At present, the construction of computing network continues to speed up, and computing infrastructure, as the digital "base" of the future development of AGI, presents two major development trends of intelligence and green, promoting the development of China's artificial intelligence industry to a new stage. Chen Zhenkuan said that Lenovo, as the world's leading provider of computing infrastructure and services, will be based on the AI era, deepen AI intelligence and green empowerment, accelerate the landing of intelligent technology in various industries, and help China's artificial intelligence industry to achieve intelligent and green development.

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