China Computing Power Conference 2023: Unveiling the New Trends in Industrial Development
In recent years, the demand for computing power has surged with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), paving the way for rapid advancements in the computer network infrastructure. From scientific research to industrial production, computing power has become an indispensable component, permeating every aspect of our lives. At the China Computing Power Conference 2023 held in Yinchuan, Ningxia, new progress and developments in the computing power industry were unveiled, highlighting its crucial role in the digital and intelligent transformation of society.
The development of large-scale model algorithms has been a major driving force behind the growth of AI, resulting in a significant increase in the demand for intelligent computing power. To meet this demand, 130 trunk optical cables have been built around computing power hub nodes, greatly enhancing data transmission performance. This expansion in computing power has led to a global first in the production output of computer products such as servers and computers.
Jin Zhuanglong, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, shared the latest data during the conference. The total scale of data center racks in the country has exceeded 7.6 million standard racks, and the overall computing power has reached an impressive 1.97 trillion floating point operations per second (197 EFLOPS), making China second in the world. The output of computer products, including servers, computers, and smartphones, has also secured the leading position in the global market.
The development of large AI models has significantly fueled the demand for computing power, as highlighted by the “China Comprehensive Computing Power Index (2023)” released by the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology. The index reveals that overall computing power accounts for 74% of the current scale, with intelligent computing power accounting for 25%, representing a 60% increase compared to the previous year.
“The development of large models plays a vital role in advancing artificial intelligence computing power,” explained Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology. The optimization of China’s computing power structure indicates a substantial growth in demand for intelligent computing power.
Liang Hua, the chairman of Huawei, emphasized the rapid development of industries such as autonomous driving, life medicine, and intelligent manufacturing. The emergence of large-scale AI models and the consequent influx of extensive data have driven a continuous increase in computing requirements. Intelligent computing power, particularly for large-scale model training, has become the primary driving force behind the growth of computing power.
With the soaring demand for intelligent computing power, companies are focusing on increasing the supply of high-performance computing and accelerating the development of key technologies to enable AI advancements. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expressed its commitment to optimizing infrastructure plans and enhancing the top-level design of high-quality computing power facilities. Measures will be taken to bolster the planning of computing power resources, strengthen the supply of high-performance intelligent computing, develop reliable computer power networks, and improve efficiency and intensive use.
Notably, major telecom companies, such as China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile, are investing heavily in artificial intelligence research and development, with a particular emphasis on intelligent computing centers and infrastructure upgrades. For instance, Zhongwei City in Ningxia recently launched the “China Unicom Computing, Training and Promotion Construction of Zhongwei Hub Integrated Action Plan,” aimed at building an integrated hub for intelligent computing, training, and promotion. This hub will provide AI training and promotion services, thereby fostering the development of the intelligent computing industry in Ningxia and the western region.
China Mobile, along with other supercomputing centers, intelligent computing centers, and cloud service providers, have jointly launched the country’s largest “Baichuan” computer power grid connection operation. This platform enables access to four types of computing power simultaneously and facilitates collaboration with national supercomputing centers, authoritative smart computing bodies, and major cloud providers. Its computing power supply capacity exceeds 10EFLOPS.
Zhang Zhiyong, chairman of China Tower, emphasized the ascendance of computing power infrastructure construction and stressed the importance of peripheral computing power infrastructure. China Tower aims to improve public computing power settings, provide AI-based Edge intelligent computing software and hardware, and offer sharing services that expand computing power supply. The company’s mission is to realize ubiquitous computing power and omnipotent intelligence.
The computing power network plays a pivotal role in achieving “computing power everywhere.” Currently, China has built 130 trunk optical cables around computer power hub nodes, resulting in a significant improvement in data transmission performance. Investments in new information infrastructure, such as 5G and data centers, have seen a 13.1% increase during the first half of this year. Additionally, investments in new integrated infrastructure, including industrial Internet and smart transport, have risen by 34.1%.
As digitization, networking, and intelligence continue to accelerate in various fields, the demand for computing power services is growing exponentially. The optimization of China’s computer power network plan will further revitalize the country’s computing power resources and unlock the full potential of computing power, thereby propelling the digital economy to new heights.
Industry experts have identified computing power heterogeneity and software incompatibility as common challenges. By connecting existing computing power centers with different architectures through the network, it is possible to configure, share, schedule, and release more computing power, effectively lowering the application threshold.
Gao Wen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, highlighted the need to solve two technical challenges for computing power to have the maximum impact on GDP. Firstly, large-scale computing power centers across the country require direct connections to ultra-low broadband networks. Secondly, computing power scheduling needs to be addressed.
To address these challenges, China Mobile launched the largest “Baichuan” computer power grid connection operation during the conference. The platform enables access to general computing, smart computing, supercomputing, and quantum computing simultaneously, fostering collaboration with renowned supercomputing centers, authoritative smart computing bodies, and leading cloud providers. The platform’s current computing power supply capacity exceeds 10EFLOPS.
“We aspire to create a new computer power supply model and establish a unified computer power network, making computing power as easily accessible as electricity from a power grid,” said Wang Xiaoyun, China Mobile’s chief scientist.
As various sectors accelerate their digitization, networking, and intelligence initiatives, the demand for computing power services continues to grow exponentially. With China’s ongoing optimization of its computer power network plan, the country’s computing power resources will be revitalized, and the true potential of computing power will be unleashed. Ultimately, this will drive the digital economy to new heights.
AI has spawned an explosion in the demand for computing power, and the “highway” of the computer network has been paved faster -— From China Computing Power Conference 2023 to see the new trend of industrial development
The large-scale model algorithm promotes the development of artificial intelligence in a more general direction, driving a sharp increase in the demand for intelligent computing power; build 130 trunk optical cables around computing power hub nodes, greatly improving data transmission performance; the industrial chain continues to expand, and the output of computer products such as servers and computers is global First… Recently, the China Computing Power Conference 2023 held in Yinchuan, Ningxia revealed new progress and new trends in the development of the industry computing power, highlighting that computing power has become an important cornerstone for the digital and intelligent transformation of society as a whole.
From scientific research to industrial production, to food, housing and people’s transport, computing power permeates every aspect of production and life like water and electricity. In recent years, a series of important policy measures have been introduced by the central government to the local government, and a large number of major engineering projects have been implemented to promote the rapid development of the computing power industry.
Jin Zhuanglong, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, gave a set of latest data at the conference. So far, the total scale of data center racks used in the country has exceeded 7.6 million standard racks, and the total scale of computing power has reached 1.97 trillion floating point operations per second (197 EFLOPS), by come second in the world. . The computer power industry has begun to take shape, and the output of computer products such as servers, computers and smartphones is first in the world.
In particular, the development of artificial intelligence technology such as large AI models has driven further growth in the demand for computing power. According to the “China Comprehensive Computing Power Index (2023)” released by the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology at the conference, in the current computing power scale, the overall computing power scale accounts for 74%; the intelligent computing power scale accounts for 74%; for 25%, a 60% increase year on year.
“This reflects that the development of large models plays a very important role in advancing the computing power of artificial intelligence.” Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology, believes that my country’s computing power structure has been optimized, and the demand for intelligent computing power is showing explosive growth.
Liang Hua, the chairman of Huawei, also believes that industries such as autonomous driving, life medicine and intelligent manufacturing have developed rapidly in recent years, and the large-scale artificial intelligence models and the resulting huge data have increased continuous computing requirements. power, suitable for large-scale model training The intelligent computing power has become the main driving force of the growth of computing power.
The reporter observed that with the surge in demand for intelligent computing power, Duofang is further increasing the supply of high-performance intelligent computing, accelerating the development of key technologies, and driving the empowerment effect of AI computing power.
Jin Zhuanglong said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to optimize the infrastructure plan. Further improve the top-level design of high-quality development of computer power facilities, strengthen the overall planning of computer power resources, increase the supply of high-performance intelligent computing, increase the reliability of computer power networks, and improve the level of efficiency. and intensive use.
Enterprises have also increased the innovation of artificial intelligence and promoted the upgrading of computing power infrastructure.
In Zhongwei City, Ningxia, the “China Unicom Computing, Training and Promotion Construction of Zhongwei Hub Integrated Action Plan” was officially launched a few days ago. During the conference, China Unicom staff introduced that the first integrated hub node of intelligent computing, training and promotion in the west will be built here. After completion, it will realize the integrated service supply of AI training and promotion, and promotion the development of intelligent computing industry in Ningxia and the western region.
At the same time, China Telecom is strengthening the independent research and development of artificial intelligence framework, algorithm model and scheduling platform, building the Galaxy AI algorithm platform, and jointly developing large industry models and intelligent applications with partners. China Mobile System is promoting the integration and innovation of general computing, intelligent computing, supercomputing, and quantum computing, and is starting to build Asia’s largest single intelligent computing center.
“The construction of computing power infrastructure is in the ascendant. Accelerating the construction of national hub nodes and large data centers, the importance of peripheral computing power infrastructure is highlighted.” Zhang Zhiyong, chairman of China Tower, said that it will continue to improve the setting of computing power public and provide AI-based Edge intelligent computing software and hardware, and edge computing power sharing services expand the computing power supply and promote the realization of ubiquitous computing power and omnipotent intelligence.
The realization of “computing power everywhere” is inseparable from the support of the computing power network. Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Bureau of Statistics show that my country has currently built 130 trunk optical cables around computer power hub nodes, and the data transmission performance has greatly improved . During the first half of this year, my country’s investment in new information infrastructure such as 5G and data centers increased by 13.1%, and investment in new integrated infrastructure such as industrial Internet and smart transport increased by 34.1%.
Industry insiders believe that computing power heterogeneity and software incompatibility are common in practice. Connecting existing computing power centers with different architectures through the network can configure, share, schedule, release more computing power, and logically lower the application threshold.
“For computing power to achieve its maximum effectiveness and directly impact GDP, two technical problems must be solved: one is that large-scale computing power centers across the country need direct connections to ultra-low broadband networks and super-low; the other is computing power scheduling.” said Gao Wen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
During the conference, China Mobile joined a number of supercomputing centers, intelligent computing centers, and cloud service providers to jointly launch the country’s largest “Baichuan” computer power grid connection operation. According to reports, the platform realizes a map of the national computer network to sense access to four types of computing power at the same time: general computing, smart computing, supercomputing, and quantum computing, and cooperates with a number of of national supercomputing, authoritative smart. computing, and major cloud providers to achieve network integration Collaboration with CETC and Bose Quantum to complete the grid connection of optical quantum computing. Currently, the platform has a computing power supply capacity of over 10EFLOPS.
“We hope to provide a new computer power supply model and build a unified computer power network, so that the computer power network can be instantly obtained as a power grid.” Wang Xiaoyun, China Mobile’s chief scientist, said.
Industry insiders pointed out that the process of digitization, networking and intelligence in various fields has been accelerating, driving the demand for computing power services to grow exponentially, and expanding the rich variety of computer network development. As my country’s computer power network plan continues to be optimized, the country’s computer power resources will be further revitalized, and the computer power empowerment effect will be further released, pushing the digital economy to a new level. (Reporter Guo Qian and intern Bi Yixun)
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