On April 21, the "First Ultra-Internet New Computing Power Industry and the 3rd China IDC Industry DISCOVERY Conference", co-hosted by Zhongguancun Ultra-connected New Infrastructure Industry Innovation Alliance and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Big Data Research Institute, and undertaken by VNET and Internet Technology, was successfully concluded in Beijing. This is a top-level ideological feast with the theme of "Three Lives and All Things, Doing Rules", focusing on the combination of new computing power and new trends in AI. More than a dozen heavyweight guests, including academicians, scholars, star entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, stirred up wisdom, attracting more than 500 visitors to the venue, and the on-site exchange atmosphere was warm.
AI computing power is an important starting point for "counting from east to west"
It has been more than a year since the official launch of China's "East Data and West Calculation" project, and the global digital economy has also advanced at an unprecedented speed. At the beginning of 2023, the popularity of generative AI has come out of the circle, accelerating a new round of global scientific and technological paradigm changes brought about by large models, high computing power and massive data.
Zheng Weimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out in his speech that AI computing power is an important part of computing power infrastructure and a key task for new infrastructure construction and the national "East Data and West Computing" project. It is estimated that by 2025, the total amount of AI computing power in mainland China will exceed 1800EFlops, and AI computing power will account for more than 85% of the total computing power. This means that computing power will usher in an era of rapid expansion.
In the process of building a national computing power network and forming a chess game of east-west coordination, the urban computing power network is a decisive entry point. At the same time, the computing power required in the AI era is no longer traditional computing power, but "intelligent computing power" and new computing power.
At the conference, Chen Sheng, chairman of Zhongguancun Ultra-connected New Infrastructure Industry Innovation Alliance, systematically elaborated the blueprint of "ultra-interconnected new computing power", which not only fits the strategy of "building digital China", but also brings new ideas to the development of the industry. The so-called ultra-interconnected new computing power is a distributed computing power network with universal benefits built and operated by everyone participation, everyone construction, everyone operation, and everyone ownership on the new information infrastructure integrated with the chain network. Based on the vision of "City as a Computer", the new computing power of hyper-interconnection will not only weave a computing power network on the chessboard of "East Data and West Computing", but also drive the development of computing power chips, AI technology, communication networks, green energy and other related high-end industrial clusters.
Dou Dejing, partner and director of Boston Consulting Group, chief data scientist in China and adjunct professor of electronic engineering at Tsinghua University, said that although there are still shortcomings in the current technical implementation, he is still optimistic about the market size and application of generative AI.
Excitingly, the new computing power of hyper-connectivity can achieve technological breakthroughs. From a technical point of view, the new computing power of hyper-interconnection uses a series of open architectures, standards and protocols to effectively integrate and schedule computing power resources with different geographical distribution and property rights, which can provide sufficient computing power supply for a new generation of artificial intelligence application scenarios and large model training tasks.
The new ultra-connected computing power focuses on AI computing power clusters
Under the background of the million-fold demand for AI, especially large models, the existing computing power supply model will undergo major changes. At the meeting, Zhang Jianzhong, founder and CEO of Moore Thread, pointed out that the superposition of the dual outlet of "big model + meta-universe" has accelerated the explosive growth of computing power. Luo Jinhai, CEO of the quantum school, believes that computing power is a low-entropy body, an ordered arrangement of particles, and a canonical quantum field. From the perspective of the development stage of computing power, 2140 will be the limit year of computing power.
It is worth noting that the new computing power of ultra-interconnection focuses on AI computing power clusters, serves AI large models, and takes cooperation and co-construction as the concept and approach, which can create an AI computing power cluster network with rapid growth capabilities. At the same time, the new computing power economic model of hyper-interconnection operates according to the mode of use right, income right and ownership tokenization, constructs a collaborative sharing economy production relationship, and effectively drives the investment of social capital, so as to achieve abundant computing power supply on the supply side.
The views of Zou Chuanwei, chief economist of Wanxiang Blockchain, verify the forward-looking nature of the new computing power of hyper-interconnection to a certain extent. Zou Chuanwei believes that distributed business solutions have many advantages: for example, providing fair and sustainable incentives for builders, operators and maintainers of distributed computing networks; Develop a new financial mechanism for network infrastructure construction.
In order to further promote the development of the country's new generation of digital infrastructure and deepen the implementation of new computing power of ultra-interconnection, VNET Group signed strategic cooperation with industrial chain ecological partners based on its advantages of nearly 30 years of deep cultivation of data centers at this conference. VNET and Huawei Digital Energy have reached strategic cooperation in data center infrastructure, source-grid-load storage, and low-carbon data center construction. Based on the vision of the industrial metaverse, VNET Group and Zhongjiang Digital Construction have carried out in-depth cooperation in the application and implementation of joint solutions in smart parks, smart building scenarios, and jointly developed a series of intelligent products to reach strategic cooperation. VNET and Lenovo's new computing power plan to give full play to their respective advantages and jointly build an "intelligent computing power center" in the field of computing power.
"AI+Cloud Computing" helps the deepening development of technology and industry
All things - data, algorithms, and computing power will reshape thousands of industries, and the industrial ecological map and technology paradigm will face profound changes. Wei Qing, chief technology officer of Microsoft China, pointed out that in the era of disappearing certainty, the biggest problem in thinking is that the problem of uncertainty can be solved according to the deterministic method.
Indeed, as more and more cloud computing companies begin to embrace artificial intelligence, the "AI + cloud computing" model helps deepen the development of technology and industry.
Wu Jian, CEO of Internet Technology, said that with the rapid development of Web 3.0 technology and the explosive application scenarios of large models, infrastructure will usher in a new round of reconstruction, and future cloud computing will be decentralized, computing power scheduling and co-construction infrastructure.
If the "new computing power of hyper-interconnection" is the grand blueprint of the future digital economy era, then from a more micro level, with the intelligent innovation and digital transformation of all walks of life, higher and more complex requirements are also put forward for enterprise IT support. At the conference site, Internet Technology released a global managed cloud service solution. The solution can complement the advantages of public cloud and private cloud, and cooperate with multiple cloud vendors to meet the user's convenient use of cloud without losing security and controllability; At the same time, it unlocks the new model of one-stop IT service for enterprises and truly realizes global managed services under hybrid IT architecture.
Driven by new technologies and models such as AIGC big model, Web 3.0, and metaverse, computing power has become the core competitiveness of the intelligent era. Three lives and all things, the line comes. Through the third conference, we continue to gather people of insight in the industry, with a beautiful belief in the future technological evolution and social development, and forge ahead. We hope that in the collision of ideas one after another, we will unite the forces of all parties, promote the development of the industry, jointly build a new infrastructure of ultra-interconnected computing power, and create a new generation of digital economy consortium.