Arm server ecological cooperation to promote China's "chips" breakthrough

Recently, huawei officially unveiled five major solutions for TaiShan server based on kunpeng 920 at its smart computing conference 2019, including big data, distributed storage, Arm native, high-performance computing and database application fields.Zhang xiwei, President of huawei intelligent computing TaiShan& atlas, commented: "as the most 'core' work of huawei intelligent computing, TaiShan server solution focuses on specific application scenarios, gives full play to the computing advantages of kunpeng Arm processor multi-core architecture and high concurrency, and can bring efficient computing into every data center.

Huawei is actively involved in Arm industry. The picture comes from huawei

In the world market for cloud computing volume under the background of continued growth, huawei server based on Arm architecture independent research and development design solution of blockbuster released, is undoubtedly the Arm leading global ecological system resources and technical advantages combined with market demand in China and a breakthrough, assigned to the intelligent science and technology innovation in China, also challenge for forward China's core and server industry independent innovation path pointed out the practical and feasible development direction.

Data-driven fifth wave of computing wave, Arm server industry ushered in a new round of opportunities

At present, the development of mobile equipment industry represented by smart phones enters the "second half". The appearance of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of things and artificial intelligence promotes the intelligent society construction of Internet of everything and perception of everything, thus putting forward diversified and urgent demands for green computing and intelligent computing.Arm CEO SimonSegars has described what he sees as the future of the semiconductor industry, the fifth wave of data-driven computing that will not only benefit Arm, but also enable every partner in the Arm ecosystem to reap significant business value from it.At the same time, with the increasing diversity of data types, such as big data application, distributed storage and partial edge computing, it puts forward clear requirements for multi-core and high-efficiency computing. Although the computing power of a single device is important, it is no longer the only concern. We should pay more attention to the computing power of the whole system.This heterogeneous computing demand provides a new round of growth point for the development of Arm server ecosystem.

The fifth wave of data-driven computing

As the foundation behind the construction of the Internet of everything ecology, the choice of computing architecture is very important.Arm architecture has been committed to the innovation of high energy efficiency and low power consumption since its birth. From the instruction set and CPU architecture to the IP design and SoC design, the goal is to meet the needs of users and the market for green computing, so as to continuously improve the computing capacity and optimize the energy consumption design.Arm server is based on the chip architecture open by Arm, and many manufacturers participate in the formulation of relevant specifications and standards, which has changed the situation of the dominant position in the traditional server chip field and boosted the success of many chip manufacturers around the world.For the Chinese market, the choice of Arm architecture, which occupies the world's largest computing ecosystem and is mature and widely adopted, is also the best opportunity for the Chinese chip industry to make use of the world and connect with the world.

A whole new era of intelligent green computing begins

The secret to Arm's great success in mobile is that it USES its processor IP to build a strong ecosystem with licensed partners.In the field of infrastructure, in April 2016, supported by the ministry of industry and information technology, China's "GreenComputingConsorTIum" (GCC), jointly announced by a number of leading international server and cloud computing solution providers as well as domestic universities and research institutions, was a milestone event in the construction of Arm server ecosystem.After three years of development, union membership has expanded from its inception 17 to now 45, covers the complete Arm server industry ecosystem, and will continue to establish an open, innovative green computing ecosystems, promote large data based on Arm architecture, enterprise computing and development of critical applications, such as cloud computing.

The successful launch of huawei Taishan server solution is another breakthrough in the construction of Arm server ecosystem.As the world's leading ICT infrastructure and intelligent terminal provider, huawei independently researches and develops "computing, memory, transmission and management" server chip based on Arm architecture, and constructs a full-stack IT solution with Arm chip as the core capability from processor, operating system, server machine to industry solution.In fact, huawei has long Arm chips accumulated research and development, since 2005 since the research based on Arm technology chips in 2014 developed the first based on Arm64 CPU, to announce this year based on Arm architecture industry the highest performance of the processor chip kunpeng and TaiShan server based on kunpeng, 920, 920 huawei cloud services, step by step by step, fully verified the Arm architecture in the advantage of multi-core and efficient, can and able to build high performance and low power consumption for the enterprise new computing platform.

Huawei has a long history of Arm chip research and development

And Arm server ecosystem another domestic top players fit, just a few years after into the Arm architecture has launched a FT - 1500 - a, FT - 2000, FT - 2000 + and a series of high-performance CPU product based on Arm architecture, and jointly constructed more than 400 enterprises with independent fit CPU as the core of the whole ecosystem, covered the high performance computing, server, and many other applications, laid a fit in every Arm of high performance chip market leading position.

It is not hard to see into the era of intelligent heterogeneous computing environment popularization of green computing, each application scenario should find efficiency optimal force, such as for mobile client application USES the end to cloud Arm unified architecture will greatly improve the efficiency, and big data storage backup, etc. Don't rely too much on the application of ecological and Arm the first landing scenario.At the beginning of this year, the rapid development of Arm ecosystem, coupled with the international leading big data, cloud computing services and cloud solution provider amazon released cloud instances driven by Arm chip, open source software began to migrate in large Numbers, commercial software will also take action, it is foreseeable that Arm server applications will be more and more.

"Strike iron still need oneself hard", Arm strengthens hardware and software strength continuously

Not only are the partners in the Arm server ecosystem accelerating the introduction of customized solutions based on the Arm architecture, but Arm itself is also actively building the ecosystem and continuously improving the software and hardware strength of the server and infrastructure market.

In October, Arm announced a new infraarchitecture-level IPNeoverse and development roadmap for 5G networks and next-generation cloud-to-edge infrastructure, with higher levels of performance, security, and scalability for new infrastructure and various application scenarios, including super-scale cloud data centers and storage solutions.The first product in the series, the N1 platform, was launched earlier this year, maintaining Arm's consistently leading power efficiency and achieving the best balance between peak computing performance and overall throughput.

Arm Neoverse N1 platform

In addition, the Arm is pushing the server based on Arm architecture compliance certification program - ArmServerReady, cooperation with software and hardware in different partners to jointly define server infrastructure specification (ServerBaseSystemArchitecture - SBSA) the minimum hardware requirements, as well as the basic start server requirements (ServerBaseBootRequirements - SBBR) specification of minimum firmware, hope as far as possible, use and create the new industry standard Arm specification,Promote interoperability between the software stack and Arm.This is not only conducive to the suppliers who directly use Arm hardware IP, but also to the selection of suppliers who customize their own CPU and SoC design based on Arm architecture to build an ecosystem, jointly develop software and hardware and design first-class solutions.This, in turn, will drive the development of the Arm ecosystem, from microarchitecture design to chips, software, and systems, to meet the diverse and changing needs of the entire computing landscape.

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