A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are reshaping the global economic structure. As the key base and core productivity of the digital era, computing power has become a key factor affecting a country’s comprehensive strength and international voice. It is also playing an important role in communications, transportation, finance, and energy. It has a real impact on the national economy and people's livelihood in thousands of industries such as commerce and industry. In the current context of the country actively exploring the path to balance the "double carbon" goal, the optimization of computing power efficiency is also closely related to green and low carbon... From many aspects, the engine role of computing power resources has become increasingly prominent.
As the key to the steady improvement of computing power, computing power infrastructure is the general direction of the country's next step in information infrastructure construction. As the largest operator, China Mobile faces the digital, networked and intelligent development needs of the whole society, seizes new opportunities for computing power development, and carries out important layout on the computing power network, focusing on computing as the center and network as the foundation. Create a new information infrastructure that "deeply integrates network, cloud, data, intelligence, security, edge, terminal, chain, etc. to provide integrated services". As a key player in China Mobile's computing power network chess game , Mobile Cloud faces new demands from all walks of life in terms of technology, architecture, and capabilities in the era of computing power. How to base on core advantages and innovate and empower is the key to accelerating itself. In the process of computing and network integration development, we need to constantly ask questions.
How to provide a more efficient, lighter, and higher-performance computing power foundation for the development of computing power is one of the core issues in the innovative development of computing power networks.
A new generation of integrated computing power base strengthens the “heart” of the computing network
Computing power infrastructure is the "heart" of the computing power network . Traditional computing power infrastructure usually has two major problems. First, it accounts for a high proportion of management overhead and is generally only suitable for the construction of large-scale public cloud resource pools; second, there are differences among manufacturers. Most of them are private interfaces and cannot be unified. As a result, applications running on the computing infrastructure also need to adapt to the interfaces of different manufacturers, and the cost remains high.
In order to solve the above problems and better adapt to the construction needs of a large number of small and medium-sized edge computing nodes in the computing network, the Mobile Cloud IaaS team launched a new generation of integrated computing base EKI-Plus based on cloud native technology . "High performance, standardization" and other aspects are remarkable.
(1) Lightweight: Three servers can build the smallest computing unit
Relying on cloud-native technology solutions and unified container deployment to realize virtualization, containers, storage, and network sharing hardware equipment, management costs can be controlled within 30% under the smallest three-node cluster . It supports flexible and rapid expansion to 20 nodes based on actual business needs, and can be deployed within 30 minutes as long as the hardware foundation is completed.
Lightweight technical architecture
(2) High performance: greatly releasing resources and achieving loss-free utilization
Based on Mobile Cloud's self-developed COCA (Compute On Chip Architecture) computing power framework, it realizes computing power-centered cloud acceleration and management capabilities for computing, network, and storage. By introducing dedicated hardware circuits to handle network and storage IO, the virtualization module can be offloaded to independent hardware carriers as much as possible, and more salable computing resources can be provided to solve the problem of virtualization overhead and greatly release the resource occupation of the host . , realizing resource loss-free utilization . Utilizes new user-mode technology to transparently transmit virtualization and container network IO data planes to back-end hardware acceleration processing, reducing the frequency of copying and processing of the data plane, supporting a maximum packet forwarding rate of 30 million, and 40Gbit/s intranet bandwidth , effectively Improve IO processing efficiency and provide stable and predictable ultra-high performance.
High performance computing power supply
(3) Standardization: unified interface, saving time and improving security
Adhering to the principle that everything is a container, Mobile Cloud abandons the traditional privatized interface design and fully adopts standardized interfaces based on K8s. Whether users create container computing power or virtualized computing power, create network resources or create storage resources, they can all pass the standard The interface is managed by adding a Yaml file, which not only saves adaptation time, but also provides the most basic guarantee for the free migration of applications in the computing power network, killing two birds with one stone.
Standardized computing power interface
In addition, compared with related products of similar types of cloud vendors, Mobile Cloud's cloud-native computing power base products have richer and more detailed functional points as a whole , which are reflected in elastic computing, cloud storage, cloud network, management and monitoring, etc. Provide strong IaaS capability support. Including providing diversified computing power based on GPU and ARM cloud hosts to better meet new business needs such as edge computing and cloud gaming, as well as providing tenant-level highly secure and isolated network environments , etc., with highly easy-to-use cloud capabilities. Meet the multiple scenarios and differentiated needs of users and lay a solid foundation for the development of computing power networks.
How to further promote the implementation of computing power network technology, stimulate the core resource role of computing power, and empower the era of computing power economy?
Judging from the above performance, Mobile Cloud's new generation of cloud-native integrated computing power base currently has relatively complete functions and excellent network performance. In the future, based on the self-developed cloud native technology platform for computing network natives and continuously integrating product capabilities such as cloud native database He3DB and cloud native data lake Lakehouse, Mobile Cloud will provide computing power networks with cross-domain hybrid scheduling, computing power encapsulation and other capabilities. Help break computing power barriers, revitalize computing power resources, realize ubiquitous computing power, and meet the diverse needs of customers with smart and green new service models.
In addition, Mobile Cloud will continue to introduce mobile cloud ESSD, SPDK and other technologies/frameworks to further strengthen computing network storage and other related capabilities. At the same time, it will focus on accelerating the adaptation of the integrated computing power base to the national technology stack to provide customers with efficient, convenient , and Safe and reliable computing power service.