Boundaries are meant to be broken. See how Huawei's intelligent computing accelerates enterprise transformation!

[51CTO.com original article] On May 31, Huawei's "Computing without Boundaries, Leading the Future with Intelligence" Intelligent Computing Conference was successfully held in Beijing. Qiu Long, President of Huawei's Server Product Line, made a wonderful speech at the conference and accepted an interview with the media after the conference, sharing how Huawei accelerates the digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises through intelligent computing. At the conference, Huawei also grandly released two new products, namely KunLun V5, a key business server for enterprise digital transformation, and the new generation of SSD product ES3000 V5.

In line with Huawei's new vision

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At the beginning of his speech, Qiu Long first put forward Huawei's new vision - "bringing the digital world to everyone, every family, and every organization, and building a fully connected intelligent world". In his opinion, Huawei's new vision and the server product line he is responsible for have a more obvious and direct connection for the first time. "The server product line is perfectly aligned with Huawei's vision." Qiu Long said with pride, "Huawei's server product line is committed to providing basic capabilities for Huawei's new vision, and can form an overall solution together with other products to help customers accelerate transformation."

Qiu Long explained in detail the directions that the server product line wants to develop in the future. He said that traditional computing has always been centered around data centers, but now in addition to data centers, edge computing has also been added, and computing and intelligence may be needed in various places in the future. For this reason, Huawei hopes to first help users make intelligence available everywhere; secondly, to help traditional enterprises’ computing capabilities become smarter and more convenient to use; thirdly, in the digital transformation of enterprises, Huawei can help them be more efficient and effective; finally, Huawei wants to help enterprises, cities, and countries connect more smart terminals and make them smarter.

When talking about the topic of artificial intelligence, Qiu Long said that Huawei itself has been practicing artificial intelligence. He gave a few examples. In the product quality inspection link, Huawei introduced artificial intelligence. Compared with big data, the workload has been reduced by 48%, and the yield rate has increased from 99.2% to 99.55%. "Don't underestimate this 0.35%. For the massive products Huawei produces every year, this number means a greatly improved rate of return." In the material link, Huawei unified its logistics and shipping companies, and soon, the packing rate increased by 15%. "Huawei Park is also our intelligent experimental field. We can search 1 billion pictures in seconds. We will continue to cooperate with the Shenzhen Traffic Police to optimize the entire city's roads and transportation."

When you see Kunlun, you think of high-end and reliable

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The launch of two new products, the business-critical server KunLun V5 and the new generation SSD product ES3000 V5, also attracted all the attention of the participants. At the launch, Jiang Yi, general manager of Huawei's server product line KunLun and FusionCube products, explained for the first time the origin of the name KunLun. In ancient Chinese records, Kunlun Mountain is the ancestor of all mountains, which means majestic and stable. Huawei uses Kunlun as the name to highlight the two core features of KunLun business-critical servers: one is high-end, and the other is extremely reliable, which can help customers build an extremely reliable and secure business platform.

According to him, the new generation of critical business server KunLun V5 has realized three unique features in the industry: "It is the only critical business server in the industry that supports hot-swap CPU and memory, and the only one in the world that supports both physical partitioning and logical partitioning; it is also the industry's only most complete open ecosystem." It can accelerate the transition of enterprise IT systems from closed to open, allowing corporate customers to focus more on business operations and safeguard critical businesses.

Jiang Yi introduced that Huawei KunLun provided intelligent computing services for Heilan Home in 2017. Previously, more than 1 million pieces of data had to be sent back to the company headquarters from various stores every day. The processing of these 1 million pieces of data required a lot of resources. Heilan Home used traditional servers, small machines and storage to process them, and each processing took more than 10 hours. Now, after using KunLun, the overall efficiency has increased by more than a thousand times.

Guangdong Rural Credit Cooperatives is also a beneficiary of KunLun. Before deploying KunLun, Guangdong Rural Credit Cooperatives used a closed system and had few open source frameworks, so the overall development efficiency was not high. In addition, because the partition granularity was too coarse, the resource utilization of the minicomputer was also low. After using KunLun, manpower and efficiency have increased by 3 to 4 times. The minicomputer uses both hard partitions and logical partitions, and the computing utilization rate has increased by about 50%. The overall business launch time has changed from one month to only 3 to 4 days for development testing and business launch. It has been running on the network for nearly a year and the effect is very good.

Huawei SSD: A low-key industry benchmark

Huawei's new generation SSD product ES3000 V5 released on site also attracted everyone's attention. According to Zhao Chunhui, general manager of Huawei's server product line SSD field, Huawei has been engaged in SSD research and development for 13 years. So far, Huawei has developed 7 generations of SSD products. He revealed on the spot that although SSD products are small, they are very high in technology content. All the outstanding manufacturers in the industry have been operating continuously for many years and continuously investing in R&D. "Without continuous investment, investment in algorithms, and investment in stable technical talents, many problems will arise. Either the product is not competitive enough, or the product is not successful." Zhao Chunhui said that Huawei has set the most advanced technology benchmark in the industry a few years ago, and the future goal is to continue to define the industry's best benchmark.

He defined the characteristics of SSD ES3000 V5 into three key words: First, faster performance, improved by 50%. Currently, Huawei can achieve high-performance reading and writing of V5 in 99.9% of cases without errors, even when many external factors change.

Second, it is smarter and has more intelligent features. In terms of operation and maintenance, V5 can immediately activate the software and complete the upgrade in just 3 seconds without causing any business interruption. In addition, many new technologies include multi-level power consumption adjustment, reliability hot-swap, background data inspection and life monitoring, etc., allowing users to use it with confidence and no longer worry about the loss of product data.

The third is to make it simpler. Huawei will tell customers what the best practices are for different scenarios, so that customers can just purchase them. This will make the price-performance ratio higher, and various components can be combined and optimized with Huawei's rich experience in enterprise applications to provide customers with a complete solution. "We want to leave the simplicity to customers and the complexity to Huawei, so that customers can focus more on their business operations."

In an interview with ***, Qiu Long said, "Our future mission is to build infrastructure from cloud to end, making the intelligent world of all things connected intelligent. Let's go back to the original theme - computing without boundaries, leading the future with intelligence. I hope to achieve this dream in another five years."

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