Technology & IT | Friday 20 September, 2019 1:22 am |

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2019, Huawei unveiled its next-generation intelligent product strategy and new +AI products for the enterprise market. The new products and solutions include a three-layer AI architecture based on the Engine AI Turbo product series, the iMaster NCE autonomous driving network management and control system, and the industry’s first iMaster NAIE network artificial intelligence (AI) platform; a new-generation OceanStor Dorado intelligent all-flash storage based on Kunpeng and Ascend processors; Huawei OptiXtrans DC908, the industry's first intelligent data center interconnect (DCI) product; and more.

 

The increasing scale of interconnectivity and maturing intelligent technologies are bringing disruptive changes to enterprises around the world. By adding AI capabilities to the next-generation of ICT products, Huawei strives to constantly lead innovation and help customers address a new round of digital transformation challenges to achieve business success.

Sun Fuyou, Vice President and CTO of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said: "Huawei Enterprise’s next-generation product strategy is nicknamed ‘123456’, which means we aim to build 1 intelligently connected world; focus on 2 service scenarios – campuses and data centers; provide 3 Intelligent OptiX Network product series; offer 4 intelligent IP network engines series products; and leverage 5G, Wi-Fi 6 and Huawei’s OceanStor Dorado V6 as well as other products and solutions developed by Huawei. 

 

“In addition to deep-diving into singular product areas, Huawei Enterprise is also integrating key technologies across multiple product areas, for example, IP and optical networks, 5G and Wi-Fi 6, IP and storage, and soft/hard SDN. Focusing on campuses and data centers, we are advancing intelligence in our innovations to offer competitive next-generation intelligent products and solutions.”

 

Huawei launches a three-layer AI architecture to create intelligent IP networks for the AI era

For the first time, Huawei introduced a three-layer AI architecture to create intelligent IP networks, bringing together intelligent connectivity, intelligent operations and maintenance, and intelligent learning for the AI era. The architecture includes the Engine AI Turbo product series, the iMaster NCE autonomous driving network management and control system, and the industry’s first iMaster NAIE network AI platform. The company has incorporated AI capabilities into various layers of IP networks, fully enhancing the intelligence level of IP networks and accelerating network development to support autonomous driving.

 

Kevin Hu, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line said: "Huawei will keep sharpening the competitive edge of its products and solutions by leveraging the three-layer AI architecture for intelligent IP networks based on the Engine AI Turbo product series, iMaster NCE and iMaster NAIE. We strive to better serve global customers and partners and lead the development of intelligent IP networks."

 

Huawei launches a new-generation OceanStor Dorado intelligent all-flash storage based on Kunpeng and Ascend processors

Huawei’s new-generation OceanStor Dorado intelligent all-flash storage (OceanStor C series) is an end-to-end high-speed platform built based on the Kunpeng 920 and Ascend 310 AI processors. It enables 20 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) and reduces latency to within 0.1 ms. The fully interconnected and highly reliable SmartMatrix architecture ensures the smooth operation of core businesses even in the case of controller failure. In addition, based on the machine learning capabilities of the Ascend 310 AI processor, the read cache hit rate is improved by 50%. Leveraging cloud-based AI interconnectivity, it also allows full-lifecycle intelligent management, making the storage experience continuously better during usage. This creates an all-flash storage solution that is fast, stable, and intelligent, ensuring high performance, safety, reliability and automated management.

 

Peter Zhou, Vice President of Huawei's IT Product Line and President of Huawei’s Intelligent Data and Storage Domain, said: "In the digital economy, new connections and applications are accelerating data production and flows. With the rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT), a diverse range of applications and massive amounts of data are generated, which pose demanding requirements on real-time data processing. Data infrastructures must be upgraded to fulfill these demands. OceanStor Dorado intelligent all-flash storage, the new-generation intelligent storage solution, embodies Huawei's years of experience in all-flash storage technologies, and aims to better help customers get the most value possible from their data value."

 

Zhou also announced the launch of Flash Only Plus, a universal flash storage scheme, which makes all-flash storage more affordable, more accessible and easier to use.

 

Huawei announces the Intelligent OptiX Network strategy for enterprises and new products including OptiXtrans DC908, the industry's first intelligent DCI product

Huawei announced the Intelligent OptiX Network strategy for enterprises and unveiled three series of innovative products – OptiXtrans, OptiXaccess, and OptiXstar – to cope with the all-optical data center, all-optical transmission, and all-optical campus scenarios.

 

Richard Jin, President of Huawei's Transmission & Access Product Line said: "Restructuring traditional networks is a pressing need for enterprises undergoing digital transformation. Based on the advantages of fiber optical technologies in bandwidth, energy consumption and transmission stability, more and more industries are beginning to use optical connections for production and operations to reduce network transmission costs, boost operational efficiency, and improve the business experience. To this end, Huawei, as a leader in the optical industry, has released the Intelligent OptiX Network strategy and the ‘three OptiXs’ series of innovative products for the enterprise market to build ubiquitous optical connectivity as an all-optical foundation for digital transformation of enterprises."

 

Huawei Adds Ascend-based Atlas Series Products and Cloud Services to Its Full-Stack All-Scenario AI Solutions

 

At this year's annual HUAWEI CONNECT, Huawei launched its Atlas series of products and 43 cloud services based on Ascend processors with powerful computing capabilities. The Atlas 900 AI cluster, Atlas 300 AI training card, and Atlas 800 AI training server are among the products to have attained the pinnacle of computing power across the globe. Thanks to continuous innovation of Ascend processors, the leading ICT solutions provider offers customers more abundant, economical, and adaptive AI algorithms for all scenarios. This launch further enriches Huawei's portfolio of full-stack all-scenario AI solutions.

"We're in the golden age of computing architecture. Abundant, high-performance, diversified, greener and inclusive computing power will drive the development of an intelligent society. Our goal is to innovate to customer demand and provide computing power for ubiquitous cloud and pervasive intelligence. Our Ascend-based Atlas series of products and cloud services are part of Huawei's AI strategy. The powerful computing capabilities of Ascend processors are now available through cloud and hardware, making computing power accessible and AI inclusive." Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei's Cloud & AI Products and Services, said in his keynote speech titled Empower New Computing with Ascend + Kunpeng.

 

43 Ascend-based New Cloud Services

The services launched are built on Ascend 910 and Ascend 310 and tailored to scenarios such as AI data inference, AI data training, image processing, knowledge computing, and autonomous driving training.

Thanks to continuous innovation, HUAWEI CLOUD now offers high-performance and cost-effective AI services to a wide range of industries for inclusive AI for all.

AI cloud servers are now doubly powerful. With Huawei's enterprise-class knowledge graph, petroleum industry experts use multi-source knowledge convergence technologies to become over 70% more efficient. Autonomous driving in the cloud uses ultra-large clusters to process PBs of data in real time, making E2E development over five times more efficient.

 

Atlas Series: the World's Most Powerful Computing Products

Built on Ascend 910 and 310 AI processors, the world's fastest AI training cluster Atlas 900, AI training server Atlas 800, AI edge station Atlas 500, AI inference and training card Atlas 300 as well as AI accelerator module Atlas 200 are part of Huawei's complete Atlas product portfolio. The portfolio covers all cloud, edge, and device scenarios and offers the computing power needed for training and inference.

Featuring a unified Da Vinci architecture and all-scenario AI computing framework, the Atlas series of products leverages cloud-edge-device synergy to accelerate intelligent industry reconstruction.

Up to now, Huawei has launched Ascend AI processors, Ascend-based Atlas series products and cloud services, and all-scenario AI computing framework MindSpore. Together, these innovations make up full-stack all-scenario AI solutions.

 

Huawei's next steps are further implementation of Ascend AI processors in its AI strategy, and further partnerships to promote AI for everyone.

 

An Open, Win-Win Ecosystem with Ascend and Kunpeng

Beyond Ascend processors, Huawei joins hands with partners to build the Kunpeng ecosystem. This full-stack infrastructure covers PC, server, storage, operating system, middleware, virtualization, database, cloud services, and applications. Huawei also launched 69 Kunpeng-based cloud services and hardware boards to accelerate customer innovation. Guided by Huawei’s Kunpeng board and reference design, partners can develop servers and desktop products rapidly. To promote this development, OpenGCC, China Electronics Standardization Institute, Arm China, IDC, Huawei, and industry partners launched the White Paper on Kunpeng Computing Industry Development. For details, please visit http://opengcc.org/forums/194.

The server operating system and database are essential for enterprise IT systems. Huawei has announced its open-source openEuler server OS available on December 31, 2020, and openGauss database available on June, 2020.

In this era of diversified computing, Huawei works with industry partners to build a computing ecosystem built on Ascend and Kunpeng processors. This ecosystem will provide leading IT infrastructure and applications for all industries.

 

HUAWEI CLOUD Releases 43 Cloud Services powered by Ascend to Accelerate Enterprise Intelligence

 

On the second day of HUAWEI CONNECT 2019, Huawei officially announced the release of 43 powered by Ascend processors. Through these services, Huawei aims to provide superior computing power to make cloud computing and intelligence available to everyone. Hou Jinlong, President of Cloud & AI Products & Services of Huawei, delivered a keynote speech introducing the release.

 

In his speech, Hou Jinlong announced that 43 new AI cloud services powered by Ascend processors are available to "unleash outstanding computing power and enable inclusive AI". Among the services, AI Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs) improve performance by more than twofold and are widely used in AI inference, AI training, and autonomous driving training. The other industry-leading innovative services include:

l   ImageSearch and Content Moderation upgraded based on Ascend 310 processors provide higher performance at only 30% the cost, which is the lowest in the industry. In addition, a deep hardware-software integration through dedicated hardware image acceleration operators, as well as architecture reconstruction and model compression, greatly improve the image processing efficiency. This reduces workload requirements and cleans up the network environment.

l   The industry's first enterprise-class Knowledge Graph helps experts improve the efficiency of knowledge graph construction by more than 70%. The innovative knowledge-driven model simplifies business processes by ensuring that knowledge graphs can be easily expanded and updated. The model also enables one-stop knowledge extraction, mapping, convergence, and full lifecycle management. With the Ascend processors, tens of billions of entities and hundreds of billions of relationships can be queried in seconds.

l   HUAWEI CLOUD's autonomous driving cloud service Octopus depends on Huawei's big data platform CarbonData. Octopus efficiently processes massive volumes of data, stores PB-level drive test data, and supports retrieval of hundreds of millions of data records in seconds. Based on the Ascend 310 and 910 processors, Octopus provides automatic tools (data processing, training, and simulation) throughout the entire autonomous driving process. This accelerates the iteration frequency of autonomous driving algorithms from months to weeks and helps vehicle enterprises quickly develop autonomous driving products.