Maker Beijing 2020 Kunpeng Application Innovation Special Competition briefing session to answer questions and enhance contestants' awareness of the competition!

At 2:30 pm on July 28, 2020, the Maker Beijing 2020 · Kunpeng Application Innovation Special Competition briefing session was held online as scheduled. During the 50-minute briefing session, Liu Haitao, COO of Beijing Kunpeng Joint Innovation Center, one of the organizers of the competition, shared with online netizens the original intention of Beijing Kunpeng Joint Innovation Center to support the competition and introduced the value of Kunpeng to localization. In the Q&A session, the host answered in detail many questions from the contestants about the "Maker Beijing 2020 · Kunpeng Application Innovation Special Competition" and practiced the registration process. In the last part of the live broadcast, the person in charge of Kunpeng Computing OpenLab introduced to netizens how to pass the Huawei Kunpeng ZHANGCHING certification and become a Huawei Kunpeng ZHANGCHING partner. More than 500 netizens, including Beijing ICT practitioners, signed up to watch this live broadcast.

Using competitions to train and build a Kunpeng industry ecosystem

According to Liu Haitao, COO of Beijing Kunpeng Joint Innovation Center, in the era of digital economy, people need to build new infrastructure such as data, computing power, and artificial intelligence to meet the needs of digital economy. The foundation of digital economy is chips. In addition to general processor chips, there is also a need for artificial intelligence chips, management chips, network card chips, hard disks, and memory chips. Currently, only the Kunpeng technology system in China can provide all five "cores".

On the basis of large-scale commercial use, Huawei works closely with basic hardware and application software partners to build an open, cooperative, and win-win Kunpeng industry ecosystem to enable the construction of the digital economy. In the fields of operating systems, virtualization, middleware, big data, storage, data management, high-performance computing, etc., Huawei continues to strengthen cooperation with partners to empower the prosperity of the digital economy. "This competition is a good opportunity to practice through competition. The Beijing Kunpeng Joint Innovation Center hopes to cultivate more Kunpeng talents in the competition and help partners create more innovative solutions." Liu Haitao said, "Everyone is welcome to sign up and create more innovative applications based on Kunpeng."

Kunpeng Application Innovation Competition Rules Q&A

In view of the fact that many participants had questions about the competition registration rules, competition process and other related matters during the early registration process, the host gave a concentrated answer to these questions at the briefing:

Can one company have multiple teams participating in the competition?

——Yes, but you need to register a Huawei Cloud account separately and use different works to participate in the competition.

Can I participate in the competition without a Kunpeng certification?

——You can register first. Before submitting your entries, complete the Kunpeng certification and output the online test report, and submit it together with your entries.

Are there any restrictions on the scope of the demos for the entries?

——The demo should include product demonstration and function demonstration.

During the migration and tuning process, how can I apply for openlab server resources such as servers and bare metal?

——You can contact local innovation centers or Huawei account managers and apply on the Openlab official website.

How will I participate if my work enters the finals?

——The final will be held in Songshan Lake, Guangdong Province. The organizer will provide free tickets and round-trip transportation tickets for one person from the qualifying team;

After the Q&A session, the host gave a detailed explanation of the competition system, competition questions, selection process, and award-winning benefits, and walked through the registration process, explaining various precautions from registration to team formation, and encouraged netizens to actively participate.

Welcome to join the Kunpeng Partner Program

The head of Huawei Kunpeng Computing Openlab introduced that the Kunpeng Wings Partner Program is a partner program launched by Huawei in the Kunpeng computing field around the TaiShan series of servers. By sharing Huawei's technical resources and brand resources, it brings business opportunities and benefits to partners, creates a win-win ecosystem, and brings commercial success.

The Kunpeng Partner Program is divided into four levels: registered member, certified, preferred, and leading, and different levels have different rights and interests. Technical certification is also divided into Compatible, Mutual Compatible, Validated, and Kunpeng Compatible technical certification for new products. The person in charge of this seminar showed everyone in detail how to pass the various stages of certification.

The registration for this competition will close on August 15. Developers in Beijing who have not registered yet can seize the last chance and participate actively. If you want to learn more about the competition, you can watch the video review of the presentation and view the detailed introduction: http://live.vhall.com/510870074. Players can also scan the QR code below to join the competition QQ communication group, exchange ideas with peers, and get relevant updates from the competition organizing committee.