[How to develop new quality productivity, how to move towards "new" (3)]
Original title: Gansu Qingyang Huizhi concentrates on promoting the accelerated construction of "Eastern Data and Western Computing", and Longdong Granary is committed to becoming "China's Computing Valley" - (Introduction)
Make green computing power an affordable and inclusive resource for enterprises (theme)
Workers' Daily-China Workers' Network reporter Kang Jin correspondent An Zhipeng
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Qingyang, Gansu Province, a place that once enjoyed the reputation of the granary of Longdong, is accelerating its rise and is committed to becoming "China's Counting Valley". Today's Qingyang has embarked on the road of development of a digital win-win future, and the new quality productivity with computing infrastructure construction as the core is accelerating its formation and benefiting the whole country.
The picture shows the exhibition center of the National Data Center Cluster (Qingyang, Gansu) "Eastern Data and Western Computing" Industrial Park. Photo by Russian Shaofei
The picture shows the computer room of Suihonghua Chuangzhi Computing Center. Photo courtesy of Qingyang Rong Media Center
Qingyang, Gansu Province, known as Longdong, is the only old revolutionary area in Gansu and one of the birthplaces of the early agricultural civilization of the Chinese nation. Today, this place, which once enjoyed the reputation of the granary of Longdong, is accelerating its rise and is committed to becoming "China's Counting Valley".
At present, digital technology is developing with each passing day, and has become the core engine for cultivating new quality productivity and promoting high-quality development in the new era. The most beautiful April day in the world, Longdong Qingyang is busy with construction, walking into the 17,000 acres of national data center cluster (Qingyang, Gansu) "East Data and West Computing" Industrial Park, machines roar, vehicles shuttle, cloud computing, big data projects are speeding up the construction, "China Computing Valley, Smart Qingyang" is about to come out.
Tens of thousands of "super brains" are running at the same time
On December 20, 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission and other four ministries and commissions approved the start of the construction of the national hub node (Gansu Qingyang) node and Qingyang data center cluster of the national integrated computing power network to provide computing power support for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other regions.
In the past two years, Qingyang has "broken the ice and tested the water" to gather elements, "surging with data" to expand computing power, and joined hands with leading enterprises in digital technology to build a "Eastern Data and Western Computing" data integration innovation demonstration zone, a red data resource agglomeration demonstration area and an artificial intelligence industrial base.
The Qinhuai Data Zero Carbon Data Center Industrial Base Project is the first batch of demonstration projects of the national "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, and it is also the first batch of projects for digital economy enterprises to land in Qingyang.
In recent years, with the explosive development of AI computing power and digital industry, the demand for power energy has also increased exponentially. As a result, Qinhuai Data Group, which is committed to building the best data center in Asia, and Qingyang, Longdong, which has the advantage of tens of millions of kilowatts of clean energy resources, have found the optimal solution, and the new concept and project of "zero-carbon data" have finally landed.
"With a total investment of 770 million yuan, the first phase of the project will start construction in June 2023 and complete the capping of the main project in November, becoming the first batch of data centers to be capped in Qingyang's 'Eastern Data and Western Computing' Industrial Park. Speaking of the magical construction speed, Li Zengzhi, the person in charge of the Qinhuai Data project site, is quite proud, "It is expected that all the projects will be completed by the end of June, and the completion and acceptance of the project will be completed in July, so as to make sufficient preparations for the delivery of the project's mechanical and electrical engineering."
Qinhuai Data Zero Carbon Data Center is the epitome of the rapid development of Qingyang's digital economy. In accordance with the model of "building a complete industrial chain and cultivating industrial clusters", Qingyang City has efficiently promoted the investment promotion and settlement of the digital economy, and has negotiated and docked with more than 1,800 domestic digital economy enterprises and signed a contract investment of more than 350 billion yuan, and 121 enterprises such as China Energy Construction, Kingsoft Cloud, and Qinhuai Data have registered and established subsidiaries in Qingyang.
Recently, with the stable operation of 1,000 GPU servers in Qingyang Computing Center, the national hub of China Telecom's "Eastern Data and Western Computing", the computing power scale of Qingyang Data Center, the hub node of the national integrated computing network (Gansu Qingyang), has reached 5,300P. This means that the computing power of the hub has increased dramatically.
According to the current theory, 10P is equivalent to the computing power of 5,000 high-performance computers, and 100P is equivalent to 1 billion calculations per second. The scale of computing power exceeds 5000P, which means that tens of thousands of "super brains" are running at the same time, which can support model training and inference of AI (artificial intelligence) super applications, and application scenarios such as autonomous driving, urban brain, smart healthcare, smart transportation, network security, intelligent digital design and construction, speech recognition, and natural language processing will be easily controlled.
"At present, three data centers of China Telecom, China Mobile and Yunchuang have been put into use, with a total of 15,000 racks and an average shelf rate of more than 80%. Qingyang Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology Director Chou Yifei introduced, the local also attracted Gansu Suihong, Han Monkey Technology, Kingsoft Cloud and other intelligent computing centers landed, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Zhejiang Zhonghe this year to start construction, the scale will exceed 200,000 racks.
At the same time, the Jingdong (Gansu) Digital Economy Industrial Park in Qingyang City was opened, and the "10 clouds" of Huawei Rendering Cloud, JD Logistics Cloud, Kingsoft Office Cloud, Telecom Tianyi Cloud, Alibaba Agricultural Cloud, Baidu Zhixing Cloud, Guoke Quantum Trusted Cloud, Tiger Industrial Cloud, Xuandu Time and Space Cloud, and Silk Road Ruyi Cloud were launched, gradually forming a new pattern of digital empowerment of thousands of industries.
Help green computing power into daily life
This is the "love song of mountains and seas" in the era of digital technology - Xiamen Hongxin Electronics Group has crossed thousands of mountains and rivers to "layout" Qingyang and established Gansu Suihong Huachuang Technology Co., Ltd.
On December 20, 2023, at the Green and Inclusive Computing Action Promotion Conference held in Qingyang City, Hongxin Electronics and experts and scholars in the field of artificial intelligence and computing technology from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xiamen University, Lanzhou University and other universities, as well as representatives of many digital economy enterprises such as Zhipu Huazhang, Baichuan Intelligence, Zero One Everything, JD Cloud, Kingsoft Cloud, Daguan Data, and Vector Stack, "ignited" a new upsurge of collaborative innovation in the integration of data, computing power and algorithms.
Relying on Qingyang's green energy advantages and the strategic advantages of "Eastern Data and Western Computing", Hongxin Electronics Group will integrate the main enterprises of the upstream and downstream chains to build a green intelligent computing center to help Qingyang build the first AI city in China.
At present, in the main building of China Telecom Qingyang Cloud Computing Big Data Center, Suihong Huachuang has quickly built an intelligent computing center with various characteristics such as open source, intensive and efficient, green and inclusive in 3 months, forming a high-performance computing power supply scale of nearly 3000P.
Walking into the Suihonghua Chuangzhi Computing Center, the black cabinets are neatly arranged, the data lines are staggered and horizontal, and the strings of beating bytes and lines of flashing codes mark that Qingyang's green computing power is continuously being transported outward.
"In the near future, green computing power will become an affordable resource for small and medium-sized enterprises, just like hydropower in daily life. Zhang Binhua, R&D manager of Suihong Huachuang R&D Center, said, "At present, we are intensively providing target customers with the deployment of the use environment of the imported H series, including daily equipment maintenance and safety supervision, to ensure the stable use of customers and to provide customers with efficient and safe green computing services." ”
Not only that, Qingyang City took the lead in building a zero-carbon industrial park integrating source, grid, load and storage in the country, promoted the comprehensive development and utilization of "big data center + new energy" and "zero-carbon" data center clusters, realized the transformation of resource advantages into industrial advantages, and actively attracted leading enterprises in the industry such as Easter, Huantai, and Tianneng, and accelerated the formation of energy storage production bases with five technical routes of zinc-based water system, hydrogen energy, all-vanadium liquid flow, lithium battery, and sodium ion.
At the same time, the cooperation between Qingyang City, Guoke Quantum and ZTE in the fields of quantum trusted cloud and quantum secure communication backbone network is accelerating, and Qingyang's competitiveness as the first initiative of the national "digital shield" system is being formed.
Constructing a "New Land-Sea Corridor in the West"
Today's Qingyang has embarked on the road of development of a digital win-win future, and the new quality productivity with computing infrastructure construction as the core is accelerating its formation and benefiting the whole country.
In April this year, Qingyang City, Zhengzhou City, and Hami City launched cooperation - Zhengzhou as the computing power consumption and transit distribution place, Qingyang as the green computing power supply place, and Hami as the auxiliary computing power supply place and Qingyang as a backup to each other, to jointly build an urban computing power network experimental field. Subsequently, it cooperated with big data trading institutions in Guiyang, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou and other places in the big market of shared computing power, data, and applications, and explored the construction of a "new western land-sea channel" in the field of data computing power.
In accordance with the idea of "computing resources take off from Qingyang and land in Zhengzhou", we will jointly promote the construction of urban computing power network in Qingyang-Zhengzhou High-tech Zone, rely on the innovative technology of "information high-speed rail" to build an integrated dispatching network for computing resources, cooperate to open up the industrial chain of computing power production and consumption, build an industrial system of "energy, computing power and market", and build the country's first intensive and systematic urban computing network.
As a result, a new pattern of "Eastern Data and Western Computing" has quietly started with the support of the computing power supply (computing power supply station) of the national hub node (Gansu Qingyang) data center cluster, the computing power demand (computing power demand consumption station) of the digital economy industrial cluster of Zhengzhou High-tech Zone as the relay, and serving major cities across the country.
Since the beginning of this year, Qingyang City has taken a multi-pronged approach to improve the digital economy talent pool, set up a high-end think tank led by 13 academicians and composed of 208 experts, set up a special talent fund of 16.9 million yuan, built a digital economy talent training base, and cooperated with universities in Lanzhou, Xi'an and other places to cultivate 2,700 digital talents every year.
Source: China Workers' Daily