Huawei's Hou Jinlong: Grow together with global developers and win together in the new era of computing

On March 27, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Cloud), Huawei announced further measures for the "Fertile Soil Plan 2.0", which will invest $200 million in 2020 to promote the development of the Kunpeng computing industry. At the same time, Huawei and Tencent Games launched comprehensive cooperation in the Kunpeng field, and jointly announced the official release of the commercial version of the operating system based on openEuler with Kylin Software, iSoftStone Basic Software, Tongxin Software, and the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei Cloud and Computing BG, delivered a speech entitled "Growing Together with Global Developers and Winning in the New Era of Computing"

The following is the full text of Hou Jinlong's speech

Good morning, friends.

Welcome to the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Cloud). As a developer, I graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a major in computer science in 1992. I participated in the development of China's first generation of digital program-controlled switches. At Huawei, I was responsible for the research and development of China's first generation of digital communication systems (GSM). Over more than ten years, I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I remember that the best computer in the school laboratory had a computing power of less than 100 million times per second, but today, the small mobile phones in everyone's hands can achieve more than 400 times this number. If the NPU parallel computing part is added, the difference will be tens of thousands of times, which shows how fast the computing power changes. Today's developers are very happy. They can use the computing power in their hands to change the world and our lives with lines of code.

Developers are the force that changes the world

There is a classic line in superhero movies: With great power comes great responsibility. For us IT people, this line should be: With great computing power comes great responsibility.

In the digital age, developers are the force that changes the world. They are also the driving force behind corporate innovation and the soul of the industry. We pay tribute to all developers.

Computing power has become a new productivity and the driving force of the digital world

As we all know, "new infrastructure" has become a hot topic recently. We can see that its "new" lies in the transition of infrastructure construction from the physical world to the digital world. In the digital world, developers are the core, and computing, cloud, artificial intelligence and other capabilities are tools in the hands of developers, and the basis of these tools is computing power.

Computing power has become a new kind of productivity. We recently released a report on Ubiquitous Computing Power. From the report, we can see that per capita computing power is strongly correlated with a country's per capita GDP, and has become an important indicator for measuring the economic development of a country or region. More importantly, computing power investment will bring huge multiplier effects. For example, in the manufacturing industry, $1 of computing power investment can bring $10 of final output, which will promote economic development. We believe that electricity is the driving force of the physical world, and computing power is the driving force of the digital world.

The world calls for diverse computing power

We have entered the digital age. Moore's Law for single chips has slowed down. Traditional computing can no longer meet new demands. Computing has entered the golden age of architectural innovation. The world is calling for diverse computing power, which has the following characteristics:

Heterogeneous computing: From general-purpose CPUs to parallel and distributed computing with Arm, NPUs , and GPUs.

l Collaborative computing: 5G enables data to be more distributed at the edge and end, and computing power follows the data to achieve cloud-edge-end collaboration.

l "Brute force" computing: AI computing power is growing rapidly. It is estimated that by 2025 AI will account for more than 80% of the computing power in data centers.

l Ubiquitous computing: Computing power will be everywhere, covering "edge, end, cloud" and embedded systems.

At the All Connected Conference last September, Huawei officially released its computing strategy based on the "Kunpeng + Ascend" dual engine to provide the world with the strongest computing power. Kunpeng is a general-purpose computing processor, and Ascend is an AI processor. Today we will focus on Kunpeng, and tomorrow we will expand on Ascend.

　　The computing industry ecosystem has made significant progress

Our computing industry development strategy is "open hardware, open source software, and enabling partners". Now I would like to share with you our progress.

l Hardware openness: Huawei focuses on making chips, boards, and motherboards, enabling partners to prioritize the development of their own branded complete machines. Currently, 11 complete machine partners around the world have launched server and PC products based on Kunpeng motherboards, such as Huanghe, Changhong Tiangong, Ziguang Hengyue, Tongfang, Xiangjiang, etc., and have been launched in batches.

l Software open source: The openEuler open source community was officially launched in December last year, and the Long term support (LTS) version was officially released today. All partners and developers can use it for free. At the same time, the operating systems used in Huawei's own products are all obtained from the open source community. We will give priority to supporting partners to release commercial versions based on openEuler.

Today, we are very pleased to invite four partners, including Kylin Software, Puhua Basic Software, Tongxin Software and the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to share their experiences and achievements in cooperation.

ØHan Naiping, Executive President of KylinSoft, said: "As a professional operating system company, KylinSoft is a supporter and builder of the openEuler community. KylinSoft adheres to an open strategy, collaborates to build an industrial ecosystem, and provides customers with complete operating system solutions. At the same time, it has launched the Kylin server operating system based on openEuler, which is very suitable for key business and data load applications in multi-core heterogeneous computing scenarios."

ØLiu Hongqian, director and general manager of Puhua Basic Software Co., Ltd., said: "Puhua is the organizer, participant and contributor of the openEuler community. We participated in the early planning and planning of the community, submitted hundreds of community version system patches, and released the first commercial distribution based on openEuler, "Puhua Server Operating System (Kunpeng Edition)". We are willing to contribute our two flagship products, MATE desktop environment and virtualization management platform, to the community, continue to support the development of the community, and promote openEuler to become the world's top open source community as soon as possible!"

Liu Wenhuan, general manager of Tongxin Software, said: "deepinEuler V1.0 is a server operating system that supports Kunpeng processors and is released by Tongxin Software based on the openEuler kernel. It fully supports the new features of Kunpeng processors and has excellent performance. With the continuous upgrading of deepinEuler and the improvement of Kunpeng ecology, deepinEuler will be loved and used by more and more users."

Ø Zhao Chen, director of the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "The Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is deeply involved in the construction of the openEuler community and the development of operating systems. Today, it will officially launch the openEuler-based EulixOS 1.0 operating system distribution. Later, the Institute of Software will also launch the 'Open Source Software Supply Chain Lighting Plan' to help the high-quality and sustainable development of the openEuler community."

Thank you very much to the four partners for their wonderful sharing. Now we jointly announce the official release of the commercial version of the operating system based on openEuler.

l Enabling partners: We have launched more than 1,500 products and solutions certified by Kunpeng technology with more than 600 ISV partners around the world. This number is still growing rapidly. We also welcome more partners to join us to jointly create and share this new blue ocean of the computing industry. We hope to enable 90% of applications to run on Kunpeng in three years.

Huawei launches strategic cooperation and joint innovation laboratory with Tencent Games

The 5G era has arrived, and it will quickly drive the cloudification of mobile applications, such as cloud phones and cloud games. Cloud phones allow every application and every function of the mobile phone to run on the cloud, using the computing power of the cloud to enjoy a better experience. The trend of games is to move to the cloud. Users can use ordinary terminals to enjoy the better experience and picture quality brought by the powerful computing power of the cloud. Terminals are all based on ARM. Using Kunpeng in the cloud does not require instruction set conversion. The same structure of the terminal and cloud can bring a 40% performance improvement. Kunpeng's innovation is a very important opportunity for the game industry.

Today I am honored to announce that the strategic cooperation and joint innovation laboratory between Huawei and Tencent Games has officially started.

We are honored to have Mr. Ma Xiaoyi, Senior Vice President of Tencent Group, to share his views on the future development of the gaming industry.

Ma Xiaoyi, senior vice president of Tencent Group, said: "We are very pleased to reach a strategic cooperation with Huawei and establish a joint innovation laboratory. We will combine the advantages of both parties to promote cooperation in mobile cloud games, game engines and other aspects. In terms of mobile cloud games, we have created the Tencent Cloud Game GameMatrix platform. We will make full use of the powerful computing power of Huawei Kunpeng processors to build an industry-leading, high-quality and low-cost mobile cloud gaming solution."

Thanks to Steven, I believe that with Kunpeng's support, Tencent Games will run faster and faster. At the same time, I would like to thank all partners for their continued support for Huawei.

Established 15 Kunpeng Ecosystem Innovation Centers

At present, we have established 15 Kunpeng Ecological Innovation Centers, each of which is a capability platform to support developers to understand, learn, and develop applications based on Kunpeng. At the same time, we help developers learn and use Kunpeng by distributing free learning vouchers, cloud vouchers, and fee subsidies, and help partners gradually realize application migration.

Create "3 1s" and continuously iterate to create a smooth developer experience

In order to enable every developer to use Kunpeng and make good use of it, we have created "3 1s" for developers, namely 1 cloud development platform, 1 set of development tools, and 1 developer community. Developer friends are no strangers to them, and today I will introduce to you the new members of these three families.

l 1 cloud development platform: Huawei Cloud DevCloud provides developers with full-process software development tools, opens up Huawei's 30 years of software development experience to developers, and provides visual, customizable automatic delivery pipelines to make software development simple and efficient. More than 400,000 users have developed more than 500,000 projects on DevCloud. Today I bring you CloudIDE, a new member of DevCloud. It is lightweight, supports Kunpeng native, supports multiple languages, and connects the development state and the running state. I am very happy to announce that CloudIDE will be free for all Kunpeng instances throughout the year in 2020!

1 set of development tools: Last year at the Huawei Connect Conference, we also released the Kunpeng development kit, including compilers, analysis and scanning tools, code migration tools, and performance tuning tools. Today, our development kit also welcomed a new member: the Kunpeng acceleration library.

It includes five categories: basic library, compression library, encryption and decryption, storage, and multimedia. With less than 1% code modification, it can achieve a performance improvement of more than 10%, and in some scenarios, such as encryption and decryption, it can reach more than 100%. In the future, we will also provide more acceleration libraries to help developers continuously improve development and migration efficiency.

l 1 Developer Community: The goal of the Kunpeng Developer Community is to create a one-stop knowledge sharing platform centered on developers. It provides 24/7 expert online services, bringing together full-stack software and hardware knowledge, Kunpeng industry information, policy releases, certification inquiries and other information, covering the entire talent training process of "learning, practicing, training and testing".

Develop 5 million developers within 5 years, and there are already 1.6 million Huawei Cloud developers

Last year, we launched the Fertile Soil Plan 2.0, which aims to develop 5 million developers worldwide within five years. After nearly half a year of hard work, the number of developers has now grown to 1.6 million.

A developer-centric talent development system

We provide corresponding resource policies and activities and optimize the process in response to the different needs of developers in the stages of learning, training, building, and socializing. Next, I will share with you our latest progress and next plans in developer training.

l More than 50 universities have joined the fertile soil program to support university teaching and research: In order to enable student developers to master the development skills based on the Kunpeng platform, we have carried out Kunpeng-related teaching and research cooperation with more than 50 universities. For example, we have released 20 sets of written textbooks and more than 200 sets of online courses. In the future, more universities will join the fertile soil program and work with Huawei to cultivate Kunpeng talents.

l 24 types of Huawei certifications: We have currently released 24 types of Kunpeng-related professional certifications, which have been recognized by many companies and institutions. They are a prerequisite for becoming a Kunpeng partner and a strong credential for personal job hunting and promotion. I believe that developers with HCIE certifications will be in great demand in the workplace in the future.

　　The incentive details of the "Fertile Soil Plan 2.0" have been posted on the Huawei Cloud official website

Last year, we announced the Fertile Soil Plan 2.0, which will invest $1.5 billion over five years and cover four areas, namely universities, start-ups, developers, and partners. Today, all our incentive details are online. For example, start-ups can get cloud coupons worth up to RMB 750,000. You are welcome to scan the QR code and apply at any time. A total of $200 million will be invested in 2020.

Providing internship opportunities for college students is an important measure for Huawei to cultivate Kunpeng developers. Now, I announce that in 2020, Huawei Cloud and Computing BG will recruit 2,000 interns worldwide! At the same time, 200 challenging topics are open, and developers around the world are welcome to participate and have the opportunity to get the offer of "Genius Youth".

Two major developer competitions

Competitions are an effective way to help developers quickly master Kunpeng knowledge. Today I would like to introduce two competitions:

l "2020 Huawei Software Elite Challenge" for colleges and universities: This competition was officially launched in early March. Developers can not only win prizes, but also have the opportunity to get offers.

lHuawei Developer Competition 2020 (Cloud) Autumn Competition for Enterprise Developers: I hereby announce the official launch of the "Huawei Developer Competition 2020 Autumn Competition"! This year's autumn competition has a total of 13 tracks. In addition to receiving training, bonuses, cloud coupons and other resources worth RMB 600,000, the first-prize winners of each track will also receive Huawei's commercial through train, and Huawei will be responsible for the promotion and incubation of the winning solutions on Huawei channels.

Grow together with global developers and win the new era of computing

Computing power makes developers powerful, and developers make computing power more valuable. Developers are the soul of the computing industry. Huawei will continue to increase investment, grow together with global developers, and win a new era of computing. Finally, I wish you all a happy and enjoyable developer conference. Thank you!