The new quality productivity represented by AI is bringing a new round of innovation revolution. At the 2024 media and analyst communication conference held by New H3C Group, a subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup, with the theme of "× AI", You Xuejun, co-president, chief technology officer and chairman of the technical committee of New H3C Group, said that intelligent computing will bring a leap in productivity and is the most certain technology trend and innovation opportunity in the AI era. Committed to becoming a "leader in digital solutions in the AIGC era", H3C will bring multiplied technology integration advantages and intelligent computing efficiency with "computing power × connection", focus on six major capability innovations to build a full-stack leading infrastructure, make AIGC applications play a greater role and efficiency, and work with customers to lead the innovation of the times.
You Xuejun, Co-President, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Technical Committee of New H3C Group
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"Unleashing Productivity in the AIGC Era with "Computing Power × Connectivity"
With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, AIGC technology has become a core enabler of productivity and creativity. You Xuejun pointed out that AI has become a symbol of new quality productivity, and the global demand for intelligent computing data centers has surged, which fully proves that the times are calling for "big computing power". At the same time, the rapid development of large-scale model technology not only creates greater imagination space, but also promotes the improvement of productivity and efficiency. In terms of energy supply, the new challenges faced by AI data centers require strict governance of energy consumption to ensure the high-quality and sustainable development of the computing power industry.
At this critical moment in the AIGC era, how to grasp the opportunity has become a common challenge for all walks of life. In this regard, H3C Group released the latest intelligent computing strategy, on the basis of continuing to deepen the "AI in ALL" and accelerating the "AI for ALL" strategy, give full play to the multiplier effect of "computing power × connection", optimize and cooperate with H3C's leading computing power and connection technologies, bring multiplied technology integration advantages and intelligent computing efficiency, amplify the value of intelligent computing resources, and give full play to the maximum potential of AIGC applications.
How to do a good job in the integration of the two? New H3C Group will start from two aspects: the diversification of computing power and the standardization of connections.
- In terms of computing power, H3C can provide diversified choices of CPUs and GPUs to meet the diverse needs of the market and customers, and strengthen the supply guarantee of the supply chain.
- At the connectivity level, H3C actively promotes connectivity standardization, standardizes internal and external GPU connections, realizes heterogeneous GPU intelligent computing clusters, reduces the cost of computing power deployment and application, and opens up intelligent computing silos through the standardization of software ecosystems, promoting resource sharing and common prosperity of the industry.
Through the in-depth integration of diversified computing power and standardized connections, H3C Group can break down various "invisible barriers" in the AIGC infrastructure, so that computing power can be more flexibly scheduled and released, bringing more efficient and stable support for model training and inference, and fully preparing for a changing future.
In this regard, driven by technological innovation, New H3C Group has upgraded the intelligent computing version of the digital brain and released the end-to-end full-stack leading Lingxi intelligent computing solution, which integrates new product launches and core technology upgrades, including key components such as the Lingxi application enablement platform, the "computing power × connection" series of new products and solutions, and the full-stack energy consumption management system. Among them, the Lingxi application enablement platform includes multivariate model portfolio management, AI agent development framework, and model services.
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"Unleashing the multiplier effect of "computing power × connectivity", all six capabilities are indispensable."
The development of AIGC has an obvious "barrel effect", and any shortcoming will restrict the application effect of AI. Focusing on the fundamental needs of the development of intelligent computing power, New H3C Group emphasizes "computing power × connection", is committed to optimizing and cooperating with computing power solutions and connection solutions, and focuses on six capability innovations to build a full-stack leading digital infrastructure, so that AIGC applications can exert greater potential and efficiency, and work with customers to lead the innovation of the times.
First, efficient and diversified computing power supply: Efficient computing power scheduling and management enablement platforms are required to efficiently exert computing power capabilities. H3C Alpha Computing Platform 3.0 will fully embrace "computing power as a service", combined with the G7 series of modular heterogeneous computing power servers, and provide surging computing power support for AIGC with the three advantages of diversified openness, embracing OAI, and separation of storage and computing, while meeting the needs of different AI workloads and business scenarios, and shortening the product development cycle and improving business efficiency through rich ecology and model adaptation.
Second, high-quality network connection: In order to meet more stringent intelligent computing requirements, the intelligent computing center network emphasizes the characteristics of openness, decoupling, and flexible expansion to enhance the carrying capacity of multiple heterogeneous computing power. The intelligent computing network solution launched by H3C focuses on openness and flexible expansion, improves network bandwidth utilization and reduces fault recovery time through load balancing and self-healing technologies, and provides the optimal choice for computing power connections of different scales. The core product, the H3C S12500AI, is designed for AI computing power scenarios, with strong ecological decoupling capabilities and excellent computing network performance, making it the best choice for heterogeneous GPU interconnection.
Third, parallel processing of massive data: The Polaris series of H3C's next-generation AI storage provides super storage performance for large model training, realizes the concurrency requirements of checkpoint write in seconds and intelligent computing of tens of millions of small files, provides intelligent prediction and suggested storage expansion suggestions, and improves data access efficiency through intelligent layering of hot and cold data. At the same time, based on the large language model, it provides Lingxi assistant to automatically adjust resources, simplify O&M, and optimize the management experience.
Fourth, active security: H3C's new generation M9000-X flagship firewall is the industry's first firewall with a built-in large model, redefining a new era of firewall. Through the built-in Lingxi assistant and the AIGC large model, natural language interaction and intelligent O&M are realized, and self-learning policy verification reduces O&M costs by 5 times. At the same time, the built-in engine can intelligently detect new malicious files and covert attack methods, significantly improving the overall security protection performance.
Fifth, intelligent O&M: The built-in Lingxi model reshapes O&M efficiency and experience. The built-in NAI native technology on the device side provides native AI functions on the device side, forming an AI layout for cloud collaboration, and helping to realize the value of intelligent O&M with network-wide collaboration, all-weather service, multi-dimensional insights, and scenario-based efficiency improvement.
Sixth, intelligent energy consumption governance: H3C's energy consumption governance solution focuses on end-to-end efficiency improvement per bit/watt in the digital journey. The AI energy consumption management engine can manage and connect various energy consumption governance methods and governance data in application scenarios from data centers, WANs to campuses, including digital energy cloud, liquid cooling system, optical module, campus Internet of Things, wireless sensing and other independent energy consumption solutions, to achieve visualization of energy consumption governance effects, infrastructure management and inspection, and automatic power-saving processing strategy management. Help all walks of life and all industries to fully realize "ALL in GREEN".
As a leader in digital solutions in the AIGC era, H3C Group will unremittingly implement the "AI in ALL" strategy, give full play to the multiplier effect of "computing power × connection", and drive innovation and wisdom to help the development of new quality productivity and social progress.