Huawei Cloud Inclusive AI Open Day "Planting Grass" Record: Get Close to 2012 Lab + MVP, Two "Group Favorites"

[51CTO.com original article] Let me start with a question: What is the most exciting moment when reading martial arts novels? In my opinion, there is a classic scene that must be among the top three - an elder with a sage-like appearance and long flowing beard (it can also be a kind woman here) nods slightly, and says earnestly "It's time for you to know the truth...", and then presses the mechanism on the table, and a secret door slowly opens, opening up a new world for the stunned (or possibly crying) protagonist, and he is reborn from then on... Recently, the reporter also experienced a similar scene.

On March 5, 2019, Huawei Cloud held the AI ​​Inclusive Open Day event. The reporter was fortunate to be invited to participate and visited the legendary mysterious "2012 Laboratory" and Huawei J5 exhibition hall. Not only did he learn about the business development achievements and vision of Huawei Cloud under the explanation of senior experts, but he also got to see the R&D and innovation strength behind Huawei Cloud up close. On the day of the open day, the reporter also witnessed the release of the "Huawei Cloud Expert Incentive Program" with Huawei Cloud MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and Cloud Sharing Experts, and had a clearer understanding of the future blueprint of Huawei Cloud's developer ecosystem.

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First close contact with Huawei 2012 Laboratory

During the open day, the reporter visited the Noah's Ark Laboratory and the Advanced Thermal Technology Laboratory of the 2012 Laboratory. In fact, the reporter has been interested in Huawei's 2012 Laboratory for a long time. This is Huawei's main force for exploring the unmanned area of ​​future technology. It integrates the latest technologies such as the new generation of communications, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. In the past, I only heard about it from Huawei people, but never had the opportunity to see its true face.

In the Advanced Thermal Technology Laboratory, experts explained to reporters the focus on high-integration packaging, high-density air cooling, high-efficiency liquid cooling/phase change, and demonstrated technologies such as low thermal resistance of devices, bionic heat sinks, phase change liquid cooling, acoustic noise reduction materials, and flow field visualization testing. For the first time, the reporter truly felt that the good reputation of each Huawei device actually condensed the hard work of countless technicians. Before leaving the factory, each device went through tedious testing links, and every detail was optimized by scientific researchers. Are there better heat dissipation materials? Can a larger heat dissipation area be designed? Can it operate normally in a more stringent environment? From chip packaging microelectronics heat dissipation to phase change heat transfer and high-efficiency liquid cooling, the laboratory's scientific researchers are striving to achieve high performance and high reliability while pursuing low noise and low cost, which is the core competitiveness of Huawei ICT.

Noah's Ark Lab is Huawei's AI R&D center. The highlight of this exhibition is the "demonstration of artificial intelligence capabilities", such as computer vision, voice assistant, and recommendation search of smart terminals; supply chain brain and question-answering system of smart enterprises. The research and development results of the laboratory have brought powerful technology supply to Huawei Cloud, and the release of Huawei's artificial intelligence chips and full-stack full-scenario AI solutions have enabled Huawei Cloud to achieve unique technological innovation in the new era of AI and accelerate AI-enabled digital transformation in all walks of life. In just one year since the release of Huawei Cloud EI, Huawei Cloud has implemented AI in more than 200 projects in 8 industries such as cities, manufacturing, logistics, and the Internet, and installed intelligent engines for various enterprises in vertical fields to help them accelerate their development.

MVP speaks out

In addition to visiting the lab, another highlight of the Open Day was the launch of a major expert incentive plan by Huawei Cloud: investing incentives to develop 1,500 experts and jointly building a Huawei Cloud developer ecosystem with cloud experts. Huawei Cloud also awarded the MVP and Cloud Sharing Experts who won the "2018 Outstanding Contribution Award" on site.

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　　Although Huawei Cloud attaches great importance to MVP, no matter how much we say, it is not as real as an MVP's actual experience. On the day of the open day, the reporter interviewed an MVP, Liu Yuan, who is the technical leader of the IoT platform basic service construction of Xi'an Shanshan Technology Co., Ltd.

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Xi'an Shanshan Technology is a company that provides information services for the water conservancy industry. Its staff members need to travel frequently to conduct business all over the country. In the past, when developing, the code hosting and project management system were all offline. Whenever someone was on a business trip, the development program had to be suspended, making collaborative development very difficult.

In May 2018, Liu Yuan attended a press conference for Huawei Software Development Cloud and found that many of its features were exactly what his company wanted, especially the mechanism of online code hosting on Huawei Cloud, which could solve the problem of collaborative development. Later, Liu Yuan discovered that Huawei Cloud had many more features that could help the company achieve more business upgrades, so the more features were used, the deeper the cooperation became.

"We later started using Huawei Cloud's DevOps products, mainly the use of automated testing platforms and containerized technology platforms." When Huawei launched the ModelArts platform, Liu Yuan found that it was exactly what the company wanted. He explained that Huawei Cloud's ModelArts platform can be used as a platform for deep learning engines, which is very useful in the field of image recognition. The company can also develop many smart water services, reservoir water level monitoring and other businesses. When foreign objects invade the water area or the water level mark is abnormal, machine vision images can be used for identification. Combined with sensor data, the accuracy of water area identification can be greatly improved, and dangerous situations can be predicted more accurately, greatly reducing the error rate of false alarms of dangerous situations caused by leaves blocking the camera in the past.

During the ten months of cooperation with Huawei Cloud, Liu Yuan has been very positive about it. If the reason for choosing Huawei Cloud in the beginning was more because of its brand, then the reason for the subsequent cooperation was that he was impressed by its technology and services. "Using Huawei Cloud services, we have never had any downtime. Problems found in our business were reported to Huawei and solved in less than a week. Most importantly, we have improved our work efficiency through the Git distributed code hosting platform."

At present, Xi'an Shanshan Technology has close cooperation with Huawei's Soft Cloud, Ocean Connect platform, and ModelArts platform. Liu Yuan revealed that in the future they hope to host all infrastructure applications, especially those that rely on high-performance computing, on Huawei Cloud, thereby saving more energy to focus on business and meet customer needs.

Of course, Liu Yuan was not satisfied with the current cooperation, and he also put forward his own needs. He told reporters that Huawei Software Development Cloud currently mainly provides image-based machine learning visual processing and applications, but there is no video-based service. Because many application sites in the water industry are based on video stream sensors, he hopes that Huawei Cloud can provide video stream-based image recognition and foreign body intrusion detection services as soon as possible, so that it can be more closely integrated with Xi'an Mountain Technology's business.

Liu Yuan's expectations actually coincide with Huawei Cloud's 2019 strategy: + Intelligence, see the future. The reporter hopes that in the coming days, more people like Liu Yuan can benefit from Huawei Cloud, and through new demands and feedback, continue to urge Huawei Cloud to improve its AI capabilities and empower the future of more industries.

MVP builds a bridge to allow more developers to enter the Huawei Cloud ecosystem

On the open day, Zheng Yelai, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud BU, emphasized that today's Huawei is not suitable to be a small and beautiful professional company, and can only rely on global service capabilities to become a large and strong business platform. For Huawei, in the future, it will need to use "innovation + speed" to respond to rapidly changing customer needs. For example, cloud service is a very good business model in the "speed" model. In the future, Huawei hopes to start from the bottom through cloud services and slowly share Huawei's 30 years of digital technology through the platform.

In 2018, Huawei spent a lot of time on the developer ecosystem. The reason for this is that the developer group represents advanced productivity and future technology direction, and five to ten years later, today's developers are likely to become the decision makers of the company's process IT architecture. "Only by having developers can we have the future," he said frankly. In addition to enabling developers and becoming the ecological fertile soil on the cloud, Huawei also hopes to better build a channel for co-creation with developers and enable talent training. Huawei's MVP development plan is to hope that everyone will grow with Huawei and jointly build the Huawei Cloud developer ecosystem.

Jia Yongli, general manager of Huawei Cloud BU EI Service Product Department, told reporters that MVP is a very important bridge between Huawei Cloud and its partners and developers. After a year of hard work, Huawei Cloud now has 94 MVPs, basically covering project management, basic applications, big data, blockchain, solutions and other aspects. In 2019, Huawei Cloud hopes that more MVPs can become experience officers of Huawei Cloud products. In other words, Huawei Cloud will give priority to MVPs to participate in product development and design, and ask them to give feedback on their understanding of the products.

In addition, HUAWEI CLOUD hopes that more MVPs can become technical evangelists of HUAWEI CLOUD and share their experience of using HUAWEI CLOUD in different industries and locations. Of course, HUAWEI CLOUD also welcomes MVPs to spread some content in their areas of expertise and help others better understand HUAWEI CLOUD's services from the user's perspective.

"Huawei Cloud will open up access to multiple core products to MVPs, including the one-stop artificial intelligence development platform ModelArts and the visual development platform HiLens, providing MVPs with more technical support and a platform to realize their own value."

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