2017 Global Chaos Summit held Lenovo to intelligent supercomputing envision AI era
Song Jiayu 2017/6/30 16:16
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June 30 from the ISC 2017 reputation from the Lenovo Group in Beijing today held a grand "smart super" as the theme of the 2017 Lenovo Global Super Summit. Conference, Lenovo released a new independent research and development of the HPC cluster - Shen Teng 8810, and HPC + AI intelligent computing platform LiCO, open the era of artificial intelligence application of new journey. From the international and domestic well-known high-performance computing research and application experts, as well as 1000 from China's application and research areas of high-performance computing users participated in the event, to share high-performance computing technology in the AI era of application trends.
Prof. Chen Runsheng, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Sun Ninghui, Director of the High Performance Computing Professional Committee of the Chinese Computer Society, Chi Xuobin, Deputy Director of the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Secretary General of the China Computer Association High Performance Computing Professional Committee, Zhang Yunquan, Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences And senior vice president of Lenovo Group Data Center Group, China President Tong Fu Yao attended the meeting and speech.
At present, artificial intelligence has become the focus of the market. By 2020, the global AI market will reach 119 billion yuan, the annual compound growth rate of up to 19.7%, while in China, artificial intelligence market in 2020 the market size will reach 9.1 billion yuan, the compound annual growth rate is as high as 50%. As one of the three foundations to support artificial intelligence, powerful computing power gives artificial intelligence the vitality, while the HPC product is a great platform to provide superior computing.
Comprehensive layout AI Lenovo build products, talent and ecological advantages
As China's first, the world's second HPC manufacturers, Lenovo is currently increasing the development and application of artificial intelligence to help customers with artificial intelligence Dongfeng, doing business wisdom of the transition.
In the product, the deep Teng 8810 HPC cluster by Lenovo independent research and development, with a number of HPC and AI key technologies, including 46 national invention patents. The new HPC + AI intelligent computing platform LiCO, (Lenovo Intelligent Cluster Orchestrator), not only to strengthen the previous generation of LiCO's full functionality, but also in the HPC hardware and software platform integration support a variety of depth learning applications, integration of the mainstream artificial intelligence framework, such as Google's Tensorflow, Facebook Caffe, Microsoft MXNET and so on. In addition, LiCO distributed resource scheduling system, can help users calmly deal with a variety of depth learning training growing computing needs, such as: face recognition, natural language processing; its task template allows different types of users, such as beginners, experts , Data scientists, are able to quickly get started; and LiCO end-to-end solutions include data preprocessing, training, parameter tuning, process monitoring, testing, etc., allows users to focus on AI algorithms and business applications.
In the talent team building, Lenovo has a led by Dr. Rui Yong industry-leading experts in the composition of the AI R & D team. Dr. Rui is the 2016 IEEE Computer Technology Achievement Award winner, the world's leading AI experts, the future, his team will adhere to the user as the center, the development of industry-oriented artificial intelligence system.
In the ecological alliance, Lenovo to further strengthen cooperation with partners in various fields, to create a complete ecosystem of HPC + AI. In addition to the hardware level to continue to deepen cooperation with Intel, NVIDIA, Mellanox and other manufacturers, Lenovo is still active at the software level to open the ecosystem, to attract mainstream software vendors such as Redhat to join the league. At the same time, Lenovo venture capital also continue to explore the application level has the potential of science and technology innovation company, investment in Face ++, Galaxy water droplets technology, to faster speed to seize the commanding heights of AI. In addition, Lenovo and Kodak, such as flying, drop, today's headlines and other leading companies in the system and application of the depth of close cooperation, but also to help customers in voice, images, video, search, network and other aspects of the order of geometric application Performance improvement.
Deep accumulation + strong strength Lenovo HPC force native practice and AI application
As China started earlier HPC manufacturers, Lenovo in 2001 that set up a high-performance server business, began in the field of HPC exploration. In the just-concluded ISC 2017, Lenovo to 91 sets of high-performance computing system shortlisted global HPC TOP500 share list, for three consecutive years won the first in China, continue to reelect the world's second.
Not only share, Lenovo's products and technology has also entered the ranks of the world's advanced, became the leader in the field of HPC. Lenovo's x86 server product performance and quality in the world's premier, physical computing node reliability is more than ten times the competitor. It is worth mentioning that Lenovo's original 45 degrees Celsius warm water and water technology, compared to the traditional air cooling, the maximum reduction of 40% of energy consumption, energy consumption than other manufacturers of water technology is also low by nearly 20%. Through the association of water cooling can make the data center PUE value down to 1.1, which is far below the industry average of 1.8-2.0, can help customers save the overall investment, enhance the performance of AI computing. At present, Lenovo and the world's largest seven data centers in six reached a cooperation in the field of HPC continue to show edge. Last fiscal year, Lenovo to 17% growth rate to become the world's fastest growing HPC manufacturers.
At the same time, Lenovo HPC in the domestic industry applications are also increasing year by year for enterprises and institutions to create a fruitful results. In the field of scientific research, Lenovo for the Peking University to build China's first 45 degrees warm water and electricity super-center, for the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of HPC cluster computing power up to 1000 trillion times. In the field of high-end manufacturing, Lenovo built a total number of 1550 nodes for the space hospital, the calculation of more than 600 trillion times the HPC system for the core areas of aerospace research and development has played a key technical support. And the use of Lenovo HPC in the oil seismic data processing system to 120 nodes to meet the customer's demand for super computing power. In addition, Lenovo is a major supplier of AI GPU servers for many Internet companies, including BAT. In Jingdong, Lenovo optimized GPU architecture after the 5000 computing nodes, is supporting its consumer buying habits and other algorithms, services Jingdong 60 million customers. In addition, China's three major telecom operators, China National Petroleum, China Southern Power Grid and other public transport field giants, as well as many large financial institutions and China's mainstream Internet customers, are Lenovo HPC the most direct beneficiaries.
"In the future, we will enter an era of artificial intelligence research and application innovation concentrated, artificial intelligence only with the support of powerful computing power, and mature algorithms, large data combined, can really change the world." Tong Fuyao said that Lenovo will continue to play its own technical advantages in the field of HPC, and HPC customers to maintain a high degree of trust, through cooperation with customers, partners together to create in line with AI trends and customer intelligence business development needs of the HPC infrastructure and Business scene. |
