The worried Shenzhen Cloud computing: A day operating costs as high as 200,000 yuan

5,610 blade servers neatly placed in 9 rows of wardrobe size rack, the year-round water-cooled system to ensure that 2500 square meters of room, at all times at 22 degrees Celsius temperature state. The uninterruptible power supply distribution room, opposite the server room, is always on standby to ensure a 24-hour daily continuity.

All blade servers host 60,000 C P u cores, allowing the overall operation speed to reach 1271 trillion times per second. This is the core of Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center in Shenzhen University City, the total data storage space of up to 20PB (about 20 million G B) and the investment of 1.23 billion yuan, let Shenzhen Cloud computing Center Enter the top five of global cloud computing Center.

"The cloud-computing center must be made useful in the short term to produce economic benefits." Otherwise, the huge investment in the hardware device will depreciate rapidly. "November 29, 2012, Qiang, deputy director of Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, revealed that Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center 50% Resources for high performance computing in scientific research, the utilization of this part of the resources has reached 90%, but the remaining services in the social cloud computing business, is still in its infancy, and does not produce economic value.

Qiang pointed out that the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center in the technical level has no problems, but also with a number of enterprises and institutions to move their business to the cloud platform. But there are so many things to communicate and coordinate at the level of understanding and operation, "It takes too much time." Qiang a little anxious. Because the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center began operating in mid-November 2011, has been more than a year. And whether it's unloaded or loaded, cloud computing centers are a big power-hungry.

Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, a insider on the "new industry" revealed that the daily cost of the cloud, including electricity costs, such as the operation of up to 200,000 yuan.

Cloud Vision

"Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center's Peng Yun system investment from the Shenzhen government investment, the nature of the main service in Shenzhen City and Shenzhen Enterprises, each Shenzhen citizens free 1T B (1000G b) storage space." Qiang said that Peng Yun system is not only a cloud storage platform, but also can include all aspects of work, life and learning cloud applications, is a end-user-oriented "cloud computing platform."

If you integrate municipal public resources, the public can in the Peng Yun system "one-stop" query traffic violations, water, electricity, gas, health insurance cards, bank cards and other aspects of information, enterprise users can also be in the Peng Yun system "one-stop" to the relevant government departments to exchange information, reduce the workload. More crucially, the savings of social resources and operating costs.

Qiang calculate: Shenzhen residents now receive monthly water, electricity, gas and other documents, a document of the overall cost of about 0.8 yuan, according to Shenzhen at least 4 million households to calculate the number of each document a year will be 38 million yuan.

Once e-government, public service business on the right track, Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center can be based on a large database to provide more high-end services, directly through services to produce economic benefits.

For example, with third-party companies to build small and medium-sized enterprises cloud, health cloud, community cloud, electronic files and other cloud systems.

But many of these things are only in the planning and thinking.

"Such as simple water, electricity, gas documents sent to the Internet, not only involved in many municipal departments of coordination and communication, there are past habits change problems." Qiang said that the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center is a neutral agency providing services, and that each agency's persuasion and co-ordination work takes too long. But this is the future direction and development trend, sooner or later, but the process is indeed a little hard.

It is learned that the realization of social security function, to communicate with the Social Security Bureau, water and electricity, to communicate with the Bureau, Gas single inquiries, to communicate with gas groups, to achieve the integration of bank cards, to communicate with major banks, health cloud function, to communicate with major hospitals ...

Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center is only one of many institutions in Shenzhen, faced with such a complex communication link, it is difficult to imagine.

Embarrassing reality

"Since the operation of the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, the computing capacity utilization rate has once reached 80% peak, but mainly concentrated in high-performance computing." Said the insiders.

It is reported that many industrial design companies in Shenzhen are using cloud computing to bring the new help thrust.

Can mobile phones be used to flip 100,000 times? Can the car pass the crash test? When the engine is running at full speed, can the thermal efficiency meet the requirements? In the past, these problems require the production of molds and samples to test. Once the test fails, it can only overturn the reset, and then make new molds and samples. Expensive design and test funding have deterred many small companies from wasting time and effort.

But the advent of cloud computing solves the company's worries. At present, Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau, Huada gene, ZTE and BYD and other users are beginning to use the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center to provide high-performance computing services.

"The revenue from High-performance computing alone cannot be balanced with the overall operating costs of the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center," he said. "Qiang revealed that the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center has introduced excellent software companies, to create a commercial operating platform, the cloud computing Center to build a software incubator in Shenzhen, as its marketing platform and operating platform.

But these are only in progress.

November 29, "new industry" reporter in the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center control room to see, occupy a whole wall of the monitoring screen lined with neat small boxes, each small box represents a group of servers, green representatives are using, and the darker color, representing the higher the use rate.

On this huge screen, the green box only accounts for about 35% of all the boxes. Staff said, in fact, there are some servers are also color, but the use rate is not too high, the color is very light, has not reached green.

In the lower left corner of the monitor screen, dozens of companies are experimenting with cloud computing platforms. including Guangzhou Auto Engineering, Islab Software, MOESDA information technology, Shenzhen Fast Printing, Crystal, Shanghai, Yongan, next door network, Foshan public control, Shanghai Great thinking, the Joint education branch.

The head of Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center said that there are already some enterprises to enter the cloud computing Center building, near the development of cloud computing applications. "New industry" also saw that some of the cloud storage enterprises have begun to work in the cloud Computing Center building, and some are also in the relocation phase before the move.

"For cloud computing applications, any company may consider a year or two, but it will not be five years 10 years, which is the inevitable trend of technological development and industrial development." "Qiang said.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)