Huawei Cloud Technology Private Conference Special Edition: Experts share the key points of cloud computing: "hard, specialized, fast and stable"

[51CTO.com original article] The early winter in December in the north is very cold, and a thin layer of ice has formed on the surface of Shichahai Lake. At 9 o'clock in the morning, the sparse forest is light and there are not many pedestrians. However, the second floor of Shichahai Source, located by the lake, is bustling with activity. More than a hundred developers gathered together to participate in the special session of Huawei Cloud Private Meeting Beijing.

Why is this private meeting called a special one? Perhaps it is because this private meeting brought together super technical experts from Huawei Cloud. Or maybe it is because the experts brought Huawei Cloud's "sincere" technical knowledge. On the day of the event, Huawei Cloud's technical experts shared Huawei Cloud's "hard, professional, fast and stable" characteristics from their own perspectives, allowing many participants to have a deep understanding of Huawei Cloud's technical connotation and characteristics.

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How to add to the basic hardware?

The first topic to appear was "Huawei Cloud Hardware Tempering Journey", which revealed what kind of software and hardware integration work Huawei Cloud has done in its cloud data center.

More and more emerging applications such as autonomous driving, smart transportation, smart manufacturing, AR, VR, etc., have very high requirements for the computing power behind the applications. In addition, when enterprises begin to migrate core systems to the cloud, they have higher requirements for the IT systems behind them, especially reliability, security, and extreme performance. On the one hand, the demand for performance is constantly increasing, and on the other hand, Moore's Law is slowing down. When Moore's Law cannot develop and performance cannot be improved for a single component, Huawei began to consider combining more levels of component systems together to undergo chemical changes and ultimately achieve more powerful computing power.

Different from the mainstream public cloud service providers in the industry who use customized hardware, Huawei Cloud's approach is to turn subtraction into addition and make more enhancements to public cloud hardware. Huawei has invented an architecture called "Business-Driven Infrastructure (SDI)" to enable public cloud systems to better meet business needs. After adopting SDI, Huawei Cloud's storage capacity, network capacity, and built-in hardware accelerator capacity are all transferred to a chip designed specifically for storage and networking. In this way, the precious X86 CPU resources can be 100% released for customers to use, thus bringing a better experience.

Explore the exclusive services of the first-class cabin in the cloud

This was followed by the topic of “dedicated cloud”.

When an enterprise's key applications are migrated to the cloud, a company is needed to provide comprehensive services for the enterprise. Huawei has the genes and experience in this area and is willing to take on this responsibility. In addition to providing large-scale, low-cost cloud products, Huawei Cloud can also provide Huawei Cloud exclusive cloud services, namely "first class on the cloud", to users in need, helping enterprises to better migrate their key applications to the cloud. The slogan of the exclusive cloud is "to create more professional exclusive with more specialized focus."

"First Class on the Cloud" can provide customers with three types of "first class services": one is the exclusive space, the second is some customized packages, and the third is exclusive services. The spokesperson explained that in the exclusive cloud, computing and storage data are placed in an exclusive space. Even if a data escape occurs, it will not affect this space, and it can also avoid performance disturbances and will not be interfered with to cause a rapid decline in performance. He told reporters that all servers and exclusive hardware are in an exclusive area and are carried by exclusive hardware of different levels to ensure the security of computing and storage. Not only that, customers can also customize their own CPU over-provisioning ratios and the QoS of related virtual machines or storage networks in their own exclusive areas through exclusive customization, and can also customize their own virtual machines in The placement strategy of the hardware resource pool. Customers who purchase the "First Class on the Cloud" service can also enjoy the advanced consulting services and advanced operation and maintenance services specially provided by Huawei Cloud.

Agile deployment, ultra-fast computing

The speeches on the topic of Huawei Cloud HPC solutions were very exciting. The speakers cited a large number of application cases that are closely related to people's lives, allowing participants to more intuitively and vividly understand the improvements and changes that HPC has brought to Huawei Cloud.

How does HPC, also known as high-performance computer cluster, work in the public cloud? Take gene sequencing as an example. Why do some people always have poor sleep? Why do some people always like to stay up late? Why do some people gain weight after eating sugar, but some people do not gain weight but lose weight? These are all related to people's genes. When people query through the APP, a click on the mobile phone triggers a calculation. The whole process is based on the public cloud and the core computing centered on HPC on the public cloud to push and speed up the gene sequencing calculation time and reduce costs.

So how does HPC Cloud reduce customer costs? Taking automobiles as an example, the cycle of enterprise CE simulation takes about 20 months, but if you build your own resource pool, you will have to wait a lot of time. Through the public cloud HPC method, you can not only achieve accurate matching, but also shorten a lot of time, which is actually equivalent to reducing costs and improving efficiency. "On Huawei Cloud, you can select commonly used software, support editing and visualization, and easily build an HPC resource pool through one-click deployment, and the construction time can be shortened from 3 months to 10 minutes." The spokesperson said.

A safe gaming experience

Experts from Huawei Cloud's gaming industry solutions said that "stable" is a key word in the concept of designing gaming solutions. In addition to reducing costs, using public cloud resources for flexible expansion and contraction, and establishing safer protection facilities, the most important motivation for moving games to the cloud is peace of mind. Peace of mind is a feeling of "being at ease", which not only means excellent computing performance, high cost-effectiveness, very fast data reading and writing, stable and reliable data, but also means fast and guaranteed service and efficient operation and maintenance. In a nutshell, it is "stable".

There are various types of games, which require different instances and computing types. Huawei Cloud provides a variety of types to meet the different differentiated needs of customers, thus providing the most cost-effective choice. Based on the new generation of V5, Huawei Cloud launched the third-generation instance, which has greatly improved performance. The C3, S3, and I3 for games correspond to high IOPS, high-performance computing, and general enhancement types respectively. Its performance has greatly improved compared to the previous generation. The network has also been improved to 20GBPS, and the IOPS has been even more amazingly improved to 3.5 million.

On the day of the event, practical demonstrations were also conducted on site, and benchmark tests were conducted from both single-core and multi-core dimensions. Huawei Cloud's computing power was over 15% higher than similar industry products.

In addition to the above four experts, Li Ercheng, head of CPU customization in China from INTEL Cloud Service Provider Group, and Judy He, a senior expert at NVIDIA, gave wonderful speeches at the scene. It is understood that after more than a year of verification, INTEL has reached different cooperations with Huawei on customized CPUs to more effectively help Huawei provide data center operation products. Huawei has also developed a separate hardware product specifically for deep learning. This product can be flexibly combined, including the current GPUs in the industry and some chips optimized for deep learning in the future, which can all be supported by this platform. On this platform, in addition to providing powerful GPUs for acceleration, NVIDIA provides high-quality SDKs and CUDA libraries at the bottom layer to help AI deep learning application developers provide a complete development platform.

Huawei Cloud is gaining momentum

Since 2013, Huawei Cloud has been making great efforts in the field of cloud computing. It is precisely the experience accumulated offline over the years that has enabled Huawei Cloud to grow rapidly, completing the layout of the entire Chinese region in just half a year. Subsequently, in the first half of 2017, the layout of public clouds in Germany, France and Latin America was completed at the same time, initially forming a global network for the entire Huawei Cloud.

Huawei Cloud insists on being a craftsman with a heart of craftsmanship and practicing craftsmanship. In the four aspects of "hard, specialized, fast and stable", Huawei Cloud builds servers from the "core" to provide customers with a stable, reliable and high-performance cloud base and platform; Huawei Cloud's exclusive cloud solution brings a first-class cloud experience to enterprise customers; HPC solutions provide fast and secure supercomputing capabilities; in the game industry solution, Huawei Cloud provides a variety of instances to meet the needs of different game customers.

Finally, we can use two pictures of bamboo to illustrate the development of Huawei Cloud. In the first four years, bamboo only grows 3 cm per year, but in the fifth year, it grows more than 30 cm per day and can grow to 15 meters in just 6 weeks. The reason is that it has been extending and taking root in the soil for the first four years. I believe that every unstoppable force comes from the accumulation of roots and accumulation over time. With so much accumulation, Huawei Cloud will definitely do better in the future!

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