A few days ago, the "East Counting West Calculation" project was launched, setting off a new wave in the era of computing power in the country. It is understood that the "East Number West Calculation" project will affect the investment and direction of operators in network and data center construction, and will also drive the upstream and downstream investment of the industry to reach 400 billion yuan. According to the estimation of the National Development and Reform Commission, it can drive 400 billion yuan of investment every year, bringing unprecedented opportunities to the upstream and downstream of the computing power industry.
Seizing the opportunity of "East Counting and West Counting", Intel has proposed more industry-leading solutions in building computing power and network infrastructure. Zhuang Binghan, vice president of Intel's sales and marketing department and general manager of customer sales for operators in the Asia-Pacific region, told the communication world all-media reporter that Intel is willing to work with operators and industry partners to innovate, promote the sustainable development of data centers, and jointly overcome the important technical difficulties of computing networks, so as to help achieve the country's vision of the "East, West And West" project.
Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Intel
He is also the General Manager of Customer Sales for Operators in Asia Pacific
"Count East and West"
The unbalanced layout of computing power will be comprehensively improved
The "East Counting West" project is of great significance to promoting the rational layout of data centers, optimizing supply and demand, green intensification and interconnection. In China, the rack size of data centers continues to grow at a rate of more than 30% per year. Large computing power demand, such as Internet companies, are mainly concentrated in cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in the east, while the growth rate of computing power in eastern provinces such as Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Jiangsu is more than 60%, but these belong to provinces and cities with serious power generation. According to this trend, China's computing power demand will be limited by other resources, such as electricity, land, etc., affecting the country's economic development.
The strategic consideration of the "East Counting West Computing" project also lies in this, by promoting the orderly transfer of computing power resources to the west, promoting the solution of the imbalance between the computing power and power supply and demand in the east and the west, so that the western computing power resources can more fully support the eastern data operation, and then improve the unbalanced digital infrastructure layout. The goal is to reduce the total number of data centers in the east from 60% to about 50% by 2025, the proportion of data centers in the west from 10% to about 25%, and the proportion of data centers in the eight hub nodes to 85%.
The "East Counting West Computing" project will affect the investment and direction of operators in network and data center construction, build a green and intelligent data center, lay a low-latency network, and form a new computing power network with cloud-network integration, computing-network integration, and cloud-side collaboration. In addition, the "East Counting West" project will also drive upstream and downstream investment in the industry. According to the estimates of the National Development and Reform Commission, it can drive 400 billion yuan of investment every year.
With the power of four super technologies
Meet the challenge of "counting the east and counting the west"
"Counting things from the east to the west" and computing power networks are huge opportunities for Intel, but also bring many new technical challenges. Intel has many solutions for building computing power and network infrastructure. Intel is willing to work with operators and industry partners to innovate and achieve the country's vision for the "East Counting West" project.
In an era of exponentially growing computing power demand, Intel is addressing complex challenges through "four superpowers" including ubiquitous computing, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, ubiquitous connectivity, and artificial intelligence.
"For the 'East Counting West' project, it mainly faces three key technical challenges, namely the construction of energy-saving advanced green data centers, the construction of transmission networks and the construction of computing power networks. Intel has always focused on two of these key technologies to address its challenges. Zhuang Binghan said.
On the one hand, Intel has always been promoting the sustainable development of data centers and helping to build energy-saving advanced green data centers. With the development of the domestic digital economy and the proposed "double carbon" goal, in the "East Counting West Calculation" project, how to process data more green has become the top priority. The National Development and Reform Commission clearly stipulates that in the construction of data centers in the future, PUE needs to be below 1.3. This is a very strict requirement. Therefore, energy saving, greening, and reducing PUE have become development trends. Reducing PUE requires starting from both the aspects of refrigeration and power supply and distribution systems, which is a supporting and joint process of the entire industry.
Intel has just released its goal and milestone of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. In the sustainable development of data center, we have built a complete data center solution matrix, and accumulated solutions and practical cases in the three vertical fields of data center rack power supply design, advanced cooling technology and data center intelligent energy saving, as well as chips, servers, racks, and data centers. We are also working with upstream and downstream ecological partners in the industry to build industry standards, reduce implementation costs, and combine the characteristics of the Chinese market to help improve energy efficiency and reduce PUE, thereby promoting the construction of advanced green data centers and achieving green energy-saving development.
On the other hand, Intel is also continuing to discuss with operators how to jointly overcome the important technical difficulties of computing power networks. For the deployment and construction of computing power networks, there are requirements for different workloads for different architecture computing. Intel offers a variety of different heterogeneous computing power products, such as CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc. At the same time, Intel also provides a unified cross-platform programming framework OneAPI, so that customers' designs can be smoothly ported on a variety of heterogeneous computing power products, ensuring the reuse of customers' design assets.
Operators are making efforts to build an integrated intelligent scheduling system for cloud-network edges, realizing collaborative orchestration, unified management, integrated supply and flexible scheduling of network capabilities and multi-cloud and cloud-edge heterogeneous architecture computing power. Intel and operators discuss how to solve important issues in the construction of computing power networks based on Intel's programmable network product technologies, such as P4, IPU, Barefoot programmable switching chips, etc., and develop new forms of equipment such as computing power routers and computing gateways. Intel's hardware and software technologies will enable operators to implement a new information infrastructure that integrates services.
Three aspects of force
Seize the opportunity of "counting the east and counting the west"
"Counting east and west" is a direction that Intel has paid special attention to this year. Whether it is for the industry or Intel, "counting the east and counting the west" means a lot of opportunities. In order to seize these opportunities, Intel will focus on the following three aspects:
The first is talent and investment. One of the goals of "Counting East and West" is to make fuller use of western energy, which also coincides with Intel's goals of energy conservation and emission reduction and PUE reduction. Intel recently released its goal and milestone of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, and set up a special working group for green data centers to respond to the national "double carbon" policy while providing better products and services for enterprise customers, including operators.
The second is product technology innovation. Intel will continue to innovate products and technologies, providing a variety of computing chip product portfolios, open source software and solutions, and accelerating the development of final products for customers and partners. From the release of the Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) last year to the first SOC product released this year during the Mobile World Congress (Barcelona), the Xeon D processor and the recently released Arc series of GPUs, Intel continues to challenge itself in terms of innovation.
The third is ecological cooperation. The broad ecosystem is one of Intel's core competencies. Intel will continue to vigorously promote cooperation with operators, equipment manufacturers, integrators, and cloud service providers, and work with partners to build a diversified ecosystem to jointly seize the huge opportunities brought by the "East Counting West" project and driving the development of the digital economy.
Create a high-quality computing power network
Technological innovation and ecological construction focus on force
For the industry, whether it is technological innovation, standard formulation or ecological construction, it is an important "power point", and only by strengthening coordination and cohesion can all parties build a high-quality computing power network that truly meets the needs of the development of the digital economy. Zhuang Binghan said that Intel will focus on the two aspects of technological innovation and ecological construction of "East Counting and West Counting".
In terms of technological innovation, Intel is driving the shift to software-defined and fully programmable infrastructure through a comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software solutions, accelerating the innovation and application of emerging technologies to drive the construction and development of digital China. For the networking space, Intel has created a new type of computing device, the Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). As a programmable network device, IPUs can flexibly distribute workloads with software to improve data center utilization, and enable cloud operators to move to fully virtualized storage and network architectures while maintaining ultra-high performance, as well as strong predictability and controllability; Intel also triples vRAN capacity and supports high cellular density for 64T64R massive MIMO through a new 5G-specific signal processing instruction enhancement feature unique in the Saphire Rapids core , which allows users to have greater flexibility and more optimization points in the process of network transformation; Intel is also driving innovation through software tools like oneAPI. Based on a cross-platform, open programming model, oneAPI enables developers to optimize performance across multiple heterogeneous computing platforms.
In terms of ecological construction, through full-line cooperation with the industrial chain, Intel has gradually built a rich ecosystem with operators, equipment manufacturers, integrators, and cloud service providers. For example, Intel and China Telecom Tianyi Cloud jointly launched Tianyi Cloud ECX (K8S management node), Tianyi Cloud edge node (if the control surface is deployed separately) and 5G private network all-in-one machine platform, which not only realizes the unified management and scheduling of Tianyi cloud nodes and Tianyi cloud edge nodes, including image management and application distribution, but also achieves edge integration, cloud-network integration, builds cloud-native network elements, and realizes cloud-side collaboration. Intel also exchanged and discussed with China Mobile, ZTE and Danghong Qitian on the "end-to-end guarantee of computing power and network for strong computing services", hoping to jointly create Intel technology-based solutions for computing networks and metacosms to promote the development of intelligent enhancement technology and continuously inject new momentum into the entire industry and ecology.
In addition, Intel and China Unicom have jointly empowered 5G edge computing to accelerate multi-scenario incubation of AR applications. As a long-term partner of China Unicom, Intel provides a series of advanced hardware and software products such as Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel SG1 server GPUs, Intel Scalable video technology, and OpenNESS for 5G MEC edge cloud, enabling it to obtain stronger processing power in workloads such as codec, rendering, and AI, and helping it build unified and flexible application management capabilities. In turn, it provides a good foundation for China Unicom to explore and practice in the ar field with various partners and end customers. As an important player in the fields of 5G, MEC and AI, Intel will also further cooperate with China Unicom to drive more industry applications that need to carry out cloud-network integration with innovative software and hardware products and technologies, thereby creating greater advantages in the edge environment close to the front line and promoting the overall improvement of industrial efficiency.
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Author: Cheng Linlin
Editor-in-Charge/Layout: Fan Fan
Review: Shen Qing
Producer: Liu Qicheng
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