On October 14, the "Computing Power New Infrastructure Forum in the Big Model Era" hosted by the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Zhejiang Province was held at the 2023 World Digital Economy Conference. The theme of the forum is "Computing Endowment, Wisdom to Create the Future", which sounds very literary and artistic. Comrade Li Min, director of the department, personally attended the scene and turned into the protagonist of the forum, looking like a preaching, and delivered a speech.
Comrade Li Min said at the beginning that computing power has become the big brother of this digital economy era and an important foundation for everyone's digital intelligence. He also specifically mentioned that Zhejiang Province should implement the "No. 1 Development Project" of the digital economy, improve the new infrastructure of computing power perfectly, and coordinate the promotion mechanism to optimize computing network resources, so that all walks of life can eat the sumptuous meal of computing power. He also wants to promote the application scenarios of computing power to be broad and broad, so that the industrial ecology can prosper, and quickly build a new computing power center in the Yangtze River Delta to provide strong support for the construction of digital Zhejiang and make new contributions to the high-quality development of the economy and society.
Two bombshells were also released at the forum, "2023 Zhejiang Computing Power Industry Development Report" and "2023 Zhejiang Province Computing Power Facilities Typical Cases", which shocked the audience. I heard that these two guys have comprehensively demonstrated the development of the computing power industry in Zhejiang Province, which can be said to be both internal and external, which really makes people want to see.
What is even more surprising is that 13 computing power facilities sharing cooperation units actually signed the "Zhejiang Province Integrated Computing Power Service Platform Strategic Cooperation Agreement", isn't this a joke? Can so many units work together? However, I heard that they are in order to jointly use their respective technology accumulation and innovative applications to help Zhejiang Province maintain its leading edge in computing power, which seems to make some sense.
Finally, there is a powerful character who appears, Zheng Weimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The title of his lecture was "Several Questions to Consider in Building Computer Systems That Support Large Models," and it sounded profound. He said that the design of the infrastructure hardware architecture of large models should consider four problems: the balance of half-precision computing performance and double-precision computing performance, network balance design, memory balance design and IO subsystem balance design. To build a large-scale software ecology, it is necessary to do ten software well, including programming frameworks, parallel acceleration, communication libraries, etc., which make people dizzy.
However, there was another episode, and Comrade Yang Xiaoyong of the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology also took the stage to speak. He said that we are now standing at a new starting point from digitalization to intelligence, policy guidance to deepen information and innovation work, computing power to transform from science and technology to industrial "new infrastructure", cloud integration computing power is a new driving force for enterprise innovation. Hangzhou should build a complete technical system in accordance with the principle of "independent and controllable and industrial development", form an information and innovation industry ecology, accelerate the development of innovative industries, and build the computing power center of Zhejiang Province into an artificial intelligence innovation highland.