Intel helps Nanjing cloud to build wisdom Green Olympics

From the S1200 to the Xeon E3, Intel architecture helps Nanjing cloud-creation storage company to build a smart video exchange platform for the second Youth Olympic Games

From the Asian Games, Universiade to the Olympic Games, each large-scale sporting events held, will let a city's infrastructure construction to take off. Taking the capital, Beijing, for example, two sporting events in 1990 and 2008 have helped the city's public service and management capacity on a new platform. Nanjing, which will hold two large-scale comprehensive sporting events in the coming year and next year, is also ushering in an opportunity for Take-off.

The Youth Games for 14-18-year-olds are not long, and the Asian green and Green Olympics, which will be held in Nanjing in 2013 and 2014, are only the second time in the tournament. But since the event was awarded to the Nanjing government by the Olympic Committee, these two large-scale comprehensive sporting events have begun to bring new vigor to the ancient capital of the Six dynasties.

As early as the second Green Olympics was awarded to Nanjing, urban policymakers have begun to plan the construction of the wisdom of Nanjing. From the initial construction of the basic platform to the various committees of the information platform, data mining and processing display, to the integration of the various boards and offices after the linkage control system, has undergone several stages of construction steps.

With the Asian youth and the Green Olympics as an opportunity, the wisdom of the Nanjing platform is being pushed into the next phase. Through the construction of the Green Olympic Special Network and the connection with the Government intranet and the extranet, the leaders of the city government hope to upgrade the Nanjing platform and realize the overall monitoring, dispatching and operation of the green and Youth Olympic Games.

In order to achieve this goal, the Green Olympic Operation Center, which is based on the Wisdom Nanjing Foundation platform, has also begun to operate. In order to ensure the whole operation of the intelligent Green Olympic system involving many government departments and public institutions, the integration and processing of data between different departments becomes one of the most important tasks, and the construction of the intelligent Nanjing Video Exchange System is one of the most important tasks to be undertaken to achieve this goal.

Video streaming, real big data

If you go to the recently completed Nanjing Asian Youth will dispatch center, the most conspicuous is the 96 pieces of information collected in the video monitoring of the large-screen display. Whether it is to the Asian Green meeting venues, or to the surrounding intersections and traffic routes of real-time video information, can be in this dispatching center for real-time playback, real-time analysis. For traffic accidents, congestion and other unexpected events, the dispatch center can call the traffic condition of the surrounding road in real time, combine to carry on the real time analysis, can provide the traffic department with the warning and the warning intelligently, provide the periphery traveler with the better Transportation Guide service, thus better safeguard the Asian green meeting and the Green Olympic Games order.

Intelligent video Surveillance and video information analysis is not only in the large-scale competitive events can play a role. In fact, video data accounts for the vast majority of data collected by government bureaus and public institutions. Especially in public security, traffic, urban management and tourism, such as a large number of layout monitoring camera field, in the 24-hour uninterrupted state of work, each 720P high-definition camera each month to collect more than 1TB of information, far more than all other channels to collect the sum of data.

Only take traffic management system as an example, in the road image surveillance "320" project carried out by Nanjing Jiao Tong Department, video surveillance resources are set up in all the city junctions, main arterial roads, communities and key buildings, and the information of road traffic safety is monitored 24 hours continuously. In the Xuanwu Lake, Zhongshan Mausoleum and other major scenic spots in Nanjing, the tourism department also set up a large number of high-definition probes to achieve the real-time monitoring work in the scenic area.

And the barriers between each video acquisition platform through to achieve a large concentration of different platform information. The video information collected by different departments through the camera can interact, share and call each other, analyze and process the video from different sources, get the real-time information and development trend of traffic and security through data mining, and provide decision support for leaders and experts in the angle of city management and planning. A video switching system is needed to support the overall wisdom of the Nanjing infrastructure.

In addition to the exchange of information between video surveillance systems deployed by different departments, the integration and analysis of video information and other data is also an important part of the project of Wisdom Nanjing and intellectual Green Olympics. Also take the transport platform as an example, currently covering the city-wide GIS systems and installed in the automotive RFID smart card system has been completed, the data collected from these platforms and video monitoring system integration, can be from more dimensions on the data represented by the trend analysis, play the important value of the data.

And if the amount of 1TB of data per month is multiplied by the number of probes in the whole city, the number of video surveillance information needed to be preserved and analyzed simultaneously by the entire wisdom Nanjing system needs to be PB calculated. And how to integrate these video information to realize intelligent analysis and processing, so that it can serve the important projects such as Youth Olympic Games, become the primary task of the current intelligent city construction.

Intel architecture set up green Owen

Cloud computing and Smart city are natural partners, cloud-created storage for Nanjing the entire program provided by the organizing Committee, including computing, storage, and processing modules, is fully based on the latest cloud computing architecture, with considerable scalability and reliability.

And in Nanjing Cloud record storage technology director, Wisdom Nanjing Video Exchange Platform Project leader Yang Shesong It appears that the Intel architecture based cloud is the most mature cloud computing infrastructure, with other cloud architectures unmatched in terms of security, reliability, and load balancing. Relying on distributed processing technology based on Intel architecture, cloud-storage delivers solutions that enable the system to be reliable by migrating tasks to other servers the first time a server is down, while Intel's high temperature board technology and Intel Node Manager technology help users reduce energy consumption.

Yang Shesong introduced that in the original project design, cloud-created storage for the Nanjing video exchange platform Design cloud storage solution is based on the common Xeon architecture of the storage server, because the storage system for the processor computing resources demand is relatively low, the overall performance of a certain amount of waste. Using lower-power processors to improve the energy efficiency and price/performance of the entire storage system becomes an important issue to consider in the project.

"Initially we considered using ARM architecture as a replacement, but in research and testing we found that there are many difficult problems to solve." "Yang Shesong said. Cloud-creating storage engineers found that because the architecture is different, the original platform running system, as well as client applications can not directly transfer to the ARM architecture of the storage server, the need for cloud storage research and development departments to spend a lot of human resources to do applications and platform migration work, the entire platform delivery cycle is bound to be delayed. This is clearly not allowed.

The Intel technical experts who came to visit helped solve the problem when the cloud created the "fish and Bear's paw" problem. After Intel's engineers understand user needs and project conditions, Cloud has recommended the latest S1200 series of S1269 processors specifically for storage-master chip applications.

With misgivings, Yang Shesong, with Intel experts, tested the new processor's application in the cloud storage system, and he was pleasantly surprised. S1269, as a storage-specific 64-bit processor, has a higher performance and energy efficiency ratio than the 32-bit ARM architecture processor, and the ability to support ECC DDR3 memory also provides greater assurance for the reliability of the entire solution. Using the same x86 architecture of the S1269 processor as the core of the storage system, not only in the application of no compatibility issues. Compared with the common server architecture, the power consumption, procurement costs have achieved a significant savings, but also in the performance of outstanding performances.

"We're going to do a release campaign in the near future to push the Intel-driven cloud storage solution to more industries," he said. "Yang Shesong so that the successful application of this scheme has brought more industry opportunities to the company." He also said that after the release of Intel's next-generation Avoton, the cloud will also launch a new processor-based storage product in the first half of the year.

And in the cloud computing platform that runs video processing systems, Intel's consultants also provide a cheaper and more practical solution for cloud-storage. Under Intel's recommendation, cloud-created storage uses the integrated GPU's Xeon E3 architecture server to build cloud computing platforms, leveraging integrated GPU as a video transcoding tool, with improved efficiency and significantly less cost than a typical server architecture. Yang Shesong said that based on the successful deployment experience in this scenario, cloud creators will launch a product-oriented, Intel Xeon E3 architecture based cloud video All-in-one for a wider range of video processing applications.

Yang Shesong also praises the Intel x86 architecture's high temperature motherboard technology. In the summer hot, expensive in east China, the adoption of HIGH-TEMPERATURE motherboard technology solutions can even work in general office environment, the majority of cases do not require additional refrigeration, and high temperature motherboard technology under the entire system in the security and reliability of higher protection.

In the process of providing a large data analysis solution for the video switching platform, cloud-storage also employs the Intel Xeon E5 processor solution as a large data integration machine. Yang Shesong says Intel has long been involved in Hadoop-related research and development, and its IT systems and technologies are the most seamless support for Hadoop-related applications.

In addition, cloud-created storage is a partner resource in the Intel Cloud Data Center ecosystem, in addition to Intel's technical support, during project development. Intel cloud storage introduces the suppliers and manufacturers of the components in the solution to facilitate the optimization of the procurement process by cloud-creating storage, thus reducing the production cost of the entire system.

Yang Shesong, cloud-created storage also joins Intel's E3 Architecture Video Application Server development group for video processing applications. With the help of Intel's Software Development Toolkit, cloud-created storage provides not only firsthand technical information, but also better upstream and downstream resources through partnership. "Intel's senior executives often come to the cloud office to communicate with our technicians, allowing us to combine our own software development with the latest infrastructure technology in the first place, providing users with better integrated solutions." "Yang Shesong said.

Yang Shesong Introduction, with the wisdom of Nanjing, intelligent Green Olympic Video Exchange platform first phase of the project successfully completed, the follow-up of the two Phase III project will be put into construction. By then, with the completion of the video surveillance system of all the venues of the Green Olympic Games and merged into the video Exchange platform, the on-site staff and the back-end monitoring staff can easily use the mobile terminal equipment access system such as smartphones and tablets, and quickly upload video information and obtain Analysis Services. By then, the "binocular" video Exchange platform in Nanjing will further its value in the wider use.