The core of the third day of Huawei HC (Full Connect Conference) is the "developer".
The theme of this year's HC conference is "Create new industry value together". From a developer's point of view, regardless of changes in the external environment or industry changes, such as cloud, large and mobile 5G, there have been many changes this year. How to create new value under new conditions and new eras is a question facing every developer.
From this perspective, this HC Developer Forum summarizes Huawei's "Kunpeng" and "Shengteng" strategies on the one hand, and this is to give developers an answer sheet; on the other hand, it is an "ecological strategy" to start the new year. , Reiterate how to win the new era in the new computing environment.
The following uses dry goods to sort out.
Kunpeng: Adhere to open hardware and open source software
The core of Huawei's computing is Kunpeng and Shengteng. One is general computing power and the other is the core of the AI era. In order to make these two cores move toward ecological prosperity and empower the industry, Huawei insists on "hardware open software open source enabling partners" strategy.
In this conference, Huawei announced the latest developer ecological achievements: more than 300,000 developers, more than 1,000 partners, more than 3,000 solution certifications, and development kits, communities, 18 ecological innovation centers, 200 million A series of services and support plans such as funding support in US dollars .
Based on Kunpeng's computing power and ecology, Huawei has developed 12 hardware partners and promises to give priority to partners. This year, the Kunpeng main board has been upgraded to 2.0, and it is fully open through the basic board plus expansion board, so that the partners' complete machine products have more differentiated competitiveness.
Screenshot from Huawei's official website
In the basic software layer of Kunpeng's full stack, the operating system openEuler and the enterprise-level open source database openGauss are open sourced as scheduled, and several community versions have been launched successively, adding new functions and features. You can pay more attention to the direction of openEuler, which is the core software layer that releases the computing power of the hardware layer and the key to the ecosystem.
At the same time, the BoostKit Kunpeng application enablement kit was opened, and the best practices in 8 scenarios were added; the Kunpeng DevKit Kunpeng development kit was opened to improve the efficiency of the whole process development.
Shengteng: A comprehensive upgrade of the core architecture
The opening of Shengteng's full-stack AI ecosystem is also being upgraded in all aspects.
Screenshot from Huawei's official website
The heterogeneous computing architecture CANN is upgraded to 3.0, and it has the functions of reasoning + training, and end-side cloud collaboration. The three major innovations are: enabling full-scene hardware, enabling efficient development, and enabling surging computing power.
Three major innovations of MindSpore 1.0 help all-scenario AI applications: fully automatic parallelism, all-scenario collaboration, and full-process minimalism.
MindStudio 2.0 has a full-process development tool chain, from operator development, model training, model inference, application development to deployment.
Upgraded MindX 1.0 "2+1+X", minimalist AI application development. 2 refers to two components, deep learning component and intelligent edge component; 1 refers to a model library; X refers to industry enablement.
Surprise: from the era of distributed and diverse computing
Huawei believes that it is currently entering the era of distributed and diverse computing. On the one hand, more and more distributed computing power represented by cloud and HPC, on the other hand, the emergence of diverse computing power represented by Kunpeng, Shengteng, x86, GPU, etc., the two are merging.
As a result, developers face five problems: high-density computing power applications, multiple computing power acceleration, application parallel performance, unified scheduling management, integrated application development, etc. These five issues run through the entire business process of development.
Therefore, Huawei has released a distributed and diverse computing software suite this time, with the purpose of unlocking the potential of computing power and helping value creation.
From bottom to top, the lower layer is cloud infrastructure, including various computing power hardware operating systems (CPU, GPU, NPU, etc.), and unified computing power cloud platform (ESC, database, security, etc.).
The middle layer is the three key components.
The ultimate performance acceleration library with diverse computing power includes two areas: basic acceleration library and domain acceleration library, covering distributed and diverse computing scenarios, docking with mainstream distributed application ecology, and improving the performance of distributed systems. At the same time, the breakthrough and innovation of the CCAL algorithm that can be processed has increased the scale of processing data and the acceleration of various computing powers.
A unified scheduler for diversified computing power & diverse loads, and a scheduler for distributed and diverse computing, full-scenario, large-scale, high-efficiency, and cloud-side resource coordination, breaking through large-scale distributed technology and key scheduling algorithms , A breakthrough in multi-load fusion scheduling.
The distributed parallel application development framework based on functional computing allows every developer to enjoy a single-machine programming experience on large-scale distributed systems, and makes the construction of distributed parallel applications as fast as building blocks. Simply put, it encapsulates the complex hardware and algorithm architecture, etc., allowing developers to focus on pure "programming".
Constantly presenting new value
The above is the essence of this conference, how can I comment?
From a technical point of view, Huawei is going deep into the track of "Kunpeng" and "Shengteng", with these two as the core, fully release the computing power in the new era, and actively face 5G, edge computing, cloud, and big data. Wait for the data flow of the new era. The first response to this response is the full-stack technology, from the lowest hardware platform, the most core algorithms, operators to the most core software, databases, and security, all upgrades.
Only by standing technically can we fully embrace the “win-win” ecosystem. This is why at this conference, Huawei Computing spared no effort to promote the details of the upgrade of “Kunpeng” and “Shengteng”. With more details, development becomes more and more smooth.
Moreover, Huawei Computing also provides a series of development components and tools from the perspective of developers, such as performance acceleration libraries, unified schedulers, and development frameworks. According to Huawei's consistent point of view, shielding and encapsulating complex processes, improving code reusability, allowing developers to focus on the business itself and each scenario itself, is the core of allowing developers to use their wisdom.
Whether it is publishing a series of professional teaching materials or co-founding a "smart base" production-education integration collaborative education base with universities, Huawei aims to build a talent ecosystem based on technology, activate the continuous vitality of the industry, and make new competitions. Dao's technology can be accepted by future professionals from the beginning, so as to achieve the purpose of popularization and active ecology.
This road is not easy. Fortunately, in the past two years, Huawei has achieved a series of achievements, the emergence of ecological prosperity, and the positive feedback of “technology nurturing developers and developers feeding back technology” are emerging. At the same time, Huawei’s new The track is bringing new impetus to the entire computing industry, and it also makes developers more confident to face new challenges in the new situation.
From an industrial perspective, the value of Huawei’s new computing power is to fully release its computing power, actively respond to challenges in the new situation, and help various industries enter the digital age; for developers, development is simpler and Less cost, more energy saving, focusing on the business itself; for the industry, with the participation of emerging forces, it will inevitably activate more levels of ecology and strength, and jointly face future trends.
This is the mission of the next phase of the new track of Huawei Computing "Kunpeng", "Shengteng" and "Distributed Diversified Computing".