2023 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the overall layout plan of digital China, deepen the strategy of cloud-to-digital transformation, and inject intelligence and empowerment for the construction of a network power and digital China, China Telecom will hold the sixth digital conference from April 26 to 28, 2023. China Construction Summit • Cloud Ecosystem Conference.
The conference focused on the field of cloud computing, released the latest technology and application achievements of China Telecom, especially key core technologies such as intelligent computing power and computing power scheduling, and comprehensively presented the staged results of technology, applications, services, and channel cloud ecosystem construction.
As a close partner of China Telecom, Intel and China Telecom have jointly demonstrated the extensive innovative cooperation between the two parties based on processors, smart network cards, smart edge, computing power networks and other fields, and joined hands with many partners to present Intel from chip to cloud Deployment of solutions in related industries and fields to help the construction of digital China.
Zhuang Binghan, Vice President of Intel Marketing Group, General Manager of Data Center Sales in China and General Manager of Carrier Sales in China, said that Intel has the unique ability to integrate software, chips and platforms, packaging and manufacturing processes, and large-scale manufacturing for customers. Cloud cooperation is even more complementary. Intel will continue to provide a stronger and smarter computing power platform and more sustainable product solutions, assist Tianyi Cloud to continuously improve the competitiveness and innovation capabilities of cloud business, and jointly expand the development opportunities under the wave of digitalization.
From end to cloud:
XPU tamps the cornerstone of computing power
In the era of diversified digital and data with explosive demand for computing power, Intel has proposed a brand-new XPU strategy, providing customized computing power solutions for different businesses and application scenarios by providing CPU, GPU, FPGA, IPU and other heterogeneous products The solution achieves higher efficiency in a more flexible way and with lower energy efficiency, and is more adaptable to the new era of diversified computing power.
Taking the public cloud scenario as an example, e-surfing cloud and Intel's customized fourth-generation Intel® Xeon® scalable processors tailor and optimize relevant indicators according to the characteristics of operator business and public cloud business, and help e-surfing cloud improve Market competitiveness of relevant product solutions. Based on the fourth-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor, Tianyi Cloud has released the eighth-generation elastic cloud host, which can support large-scale instances of 128vCPU and 8-channel DDR5 memory, and its performance has been greatly improved compared with the previous generation. Compared with the previous generation models, the eighth-generation elastic cloud host has achieved 50%, 60% and 30% performance improvements in integer computing, floating-point computing, and parallel computing scenarios. At the same time, using the fourth-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor built-in DLB (Intel® Dynamic Load Balancing Accelerator) acceleration technology, it also solves the problem of IPSec business elephant flow.
Good steel is used wisely, and CPU resources should be fully utilized. Intel Smart NIC assisted Tianyi Cloud in the innovative research and development of cloud computing cutting-edge technologies such as heterogeneous computing/IPU to improve the virtualization efficiency of Tianyi Cloud host. For operators, network-intensive applications are also the focus of attention. The Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-CQDA2 provides innovative and versatile features to optimize high-performance server workloads, with throughput up to 100Gb for this model.
Not only in the cloud, innovation around the intelligent edge is equally important, but low ROI and excessive investment often limit the expansion of cloud service providers on the edge side. In addition to the OTII 1U and OTII 2U product forms, Intel and its partners have launched the OTII-E reference architecture for edge-side elastic expansion scenarios. Through modular design, it provides network element fusion capabilities and can be flexibly configured for high-density computing and high-density storage. IO high-density equipment, adapting to different needs of the edge.
At the scene, Wingtech showed a 1U rack-mounted edge server E310T6 based on the OTII standard. The product is based on the third-generation Intel® Xeon® D processor design, adopts a unique high-precision clock synchronization design, and perfectly supports 5G BBU application.
Network infrastructure requires end-to-end flexibility from edge to cloud. The Intel® Tofino™ P4 Programmable Ethernet Switch family offers processing capabilities from 1.8Tbps to 12.8Tbps, providing scaling flexibility and program-optimized power consumption for workloads spanning the entire edge-to-cloud range. In the cloud era where new services and new demands are constantly emerging, enterprise cloud migration is the only way for digital transformation. SD-WAN has become one of the most concerned wide area network technologies. Intel, together with Taiyi Xingchen and Xinghan, made related demonstrations. The products are based on the Intel Atom platform, taking into account market architecture expectations and providing sufficient network technology capabilities to meet SD-WAN fast networking, multi-link entry switching, and basic networking. Secure computing power requirements.
With the continuous development of cloud computing and fiber optic networks, cloud computers, as intelligent products in the cloud era, can help users easily build a secure digital workspace, meet the needs of mobile office and other scenarios, and improve the security and continuity of business access.
At the scene, Intel demonstrated a cloud computing solution based on the Intel® Data Center GPU Flex series. This solution has no additional GPU virtualization licensing costs, supports 1GB to 16GB of video memory for each user, and supports office, education, and video application acceleration. At the same time, Intel's "entry" also provides more options for GPU-based VDI.
Innovative computing power network:
Facilitate the implementation of the strategy of counting from the east to counting from the west
"Digital from East to Computation from West" is the country's fourth largest cross-regional resource allocation super project, which is of vital significance to the sustainable development of my country's digital economy.
China Telecom fully implements the strategy of "counting from the east to counting from the west" and builds a "2(2)+4+31+X+O" resource pool with cloud-network integration as its core feature. But how to flexibly match and dynamically schedule the distributed computing and storage resources with the needs of industry users, and provide users with flexible supply of computing power support with the service model of computing power resources integration. Among them, based on the new computing power routing technology, the computing power gateway, which plays a central role in the collection, arrangement and distribution of computing power information, is undoubtedly crucial.
Intel and China Telecom have developed and designed a computing power gateway based on the Intel® XPU solution. Introduced Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor as its computing processing engine to cope with the computing load required to build a computing power routing table; introduced IPDK technology to realize the management of infrastructure such as CPU, IPU, and Switch, and provide a cross-platform solution Deployment and performance acceleration.
At the same time, the solution also introduces a data plane development kit to effectively offload data packet sending and receiving load and optimize gateway performance. For the development of the computing power gateway, Intel and China Telecom Research Institute jointly compiled the "White Paper on Computing Power Gateway" to elaborate in detail.
China Telecom has joined hands with partners such as Intel to carry out innovative attempts of "counting from east to west" in Gansu, Jiangsu and other places. Practice has shown that the application of computing power gateways helps to integrate and provide integrated services of cloud-network integration, effectively improving resource utilization. Efficiency, reducing the waste of network resources and computing resources, reducing overall energy consumption, and helping the implementation of the strategy of "calculating from east to west".
AI Empowerment: Practicing Sustainable Development
Helping the digital transformation of thousands of industries
In today's society, green development is the general trend. Ke Ruiwen, chairman of China Telecom, said in a signed article published by China Netcom recently that China Telecom adheres to the green development model and solidly promotes the low-carbon transformation of digital information infrastructure.
Affected by high demand for computing power and data elements, it is imperative to decarbonize data centers. Based on this, Intel upgraded the green data center technology framework from 1.0 to 2.0, which greatly reduces the energy consumption of the data center's overall life cycle.
At the exhibition, Intel joined forces with Foxconn Fii and Inventec to demonstrate high-performance high-density immersion modular servers and single-phase 48U immersion cooling solutions. Among them, the liquid-assisted air cooling solution jointly developed by Intel and Inventec based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor can save about 70% of the cost compared with the water cooling solution.
Since the beginning of this year, the emergence of ChatGPT has completely ignited AIGC. Wang Rui, senior vice president of Intel and chairman of Intel China, pointed out that regardless of the development of ChatGPT or industrial digitalization, the requirements for computing power will increase exponentially. As the most basic provider of computing power, Intel will be able to serve all walks of life It can provide better computing power and better empowerment.
At the scene, Intel demonstrated the AIGC solution based on the Intel® XPU architecture. As the most popular AI drawing open source model, Stable Diffusion allows users to use simple text to generate and modify drawings, and it also serves as an auxiliary tool to improve the drawing efficiency of professionals. Intel BigDL-Nano seamlessly integrates various hardware and software accelerations, making Stable Diffusion applications run more efficiently on Intel platforms.
Intel demonstrated the innovative applications of its partners in cloud gaming, medical imaging, smart pathology, enhanced display and other fields. Taking the medical imaging scene as an example, based on the third-generation Intel® Xeon® D processor and relying on image deep learning technology, Huiyi Huiying makes medical imaging digital, mobile, and intelligent, and completes screening, diagnosis, and treatment decisions. Closed loop supported.
Travel fast alone, travel far together. As Zhuang Binghan said, facing the sea of stars in digital transformation, Intel will continue to provide stronger and smarter computing power platforms and more sustainable product solutions to assist Tianyi Cloud to continuously improve the competitiveness and innovation capabilities of cloud business, and jointly expand digitalization Development opportunities under the wave.
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