Visit Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center: 520 units, 120,000 CPUs

In the early Monday, Mr. Liu, a citizen of Shenzhen, woke up and the smart floor in the house had been set up last night to adjust the air temperature and humidity in the room.

After breakfast, when the car started, the system has been automatically booked in the destination parking spaces, traffic jams will be issued to remind the road, and proposed changes in the route, the car park will automatically identify the vehicle after the arrival of the designated location, and will guide the car to the reserved parking space.

At noon, work afternoon break, Mr. Liu use 3G mobile phone to see the home of real-time images, to know the family situation and to visit family members remotely; If a burglar steals in the home, the automatic alarm signal can be dialed 3G mobile phone in time, transmit real-time video, and video, shout expulsion; If there is an accidental fire or gas leak in the house, The home 3G video surveillance system will automatically send the alarm message to the pre-set mobile phone.

In the evening, on the way home from work, Mr. Liu suddenly remembered that the office air-conditioning and computer forgot to turn off. He used his mobile phone to send a simple command, the office of air-conditioning, computer power off. Later, he sent a text message to the rice cooker at home, the rice cooker will start cooking immediately. Subsequently, the room in advance of the air-conditioning adjustment indoor temperature, ready to meet Mr. Liu return ...

This is not a sci-fi movie in the Future World life, and not just Bill Gates such a rich man can enjoy the High-tech, with the help of the application of cloud computing, such a life is entering the ordinary citizens.

Nanfang Daily reporter Li Shuting intern Liu Zhuxi

Just concluded the 13th session of the High Fair, the National Supercomputing Shenzhen Center (Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center) officially launched the operation, the current domestic most powerful dawning 6000 supercomputer began to open, formally opened South China "cloud application" of the curtain.

On November 23, Nanfang Daily visited the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center in Shenzhen University City, where he saw the heart--the dawning 6000 supercomputer.

Cloud Life moves with the heart

Where you go, "cloud" to follow, do not carry a notebook business trip, do not worry about the system damaged files lost, in any one connected to the Internet terminal to log into the "cloud", documents, procedures and even the order of the display of icons are exactly the same

The life that Mr Liu enjoys is the common life scene that the internet of things will bring with the help of cloud computing. In the near future, as soon as you move your finger, the sensor will translate your actions into instructions that allow you to manipulate all kinds of appliances remotely as you would with your fingers.

Various information sensing devices, such as radio frequency identification devices, infrared sensors, GPS, laser scanners and other devices combined with the Internet, a huge network of people to control a variety of electrical equipment, and the brain control of various parts of the body, like the relationship, the heart of the move, this is the internet of things, and the connection of these devices is cloud computing.

In the future, in the supermarket to see a certain kind of merchandise, just use a mobile phone scan bar code, you can compare prices with the whole city, find the lowest price merchants. People put their blood pressure monitor, heart rate meter as the Internet of things connected to the cloud computing network, Vital signs data will be real-time synchronized to the "Health cloud" system, patients do not have to run to the hospital, doctors can be remote diagnosis and treatment. The boundary between the virtual world and the real world will be broken, and the calculation and life will be completely merged.

Zhang Haibo, deputy secretary-general of Shenzhen Cloud Industry Association, describes the convenience of cloud computing: "Wherever you go, the cloud follows." There is no difference between logging on to any device, as long as you have an account in the cloud. ”

In the future, white-collar workers do not have to carry notebooks on business, and do not have to worry about system damage files lost, no matter when and where, in any one access to the Internet terminals on the "cloud", documents, applications, and even icons on the desktop placed in the same order.

Go out to play with a mobile phone to take a new photo, directly uploaded to the cloud account, no longer hold the data line and computer synchronization. Unfinished work documents, E-book reading progress, high score records in the game, all of the data belonging to the individual is kept in the cloud, synchronized to desktops, mobile phones, tablets and even TV terminals.

At the same time, the depth of network coverage will bring more convenience. Utilities and other public service costs will be through the "government cloud" in the form of electronic bills delivered to each household, payment can also be paid through the cloud instantaneous completion, no longer have the paper bills and toll Hall brought about by the human and material waste.

Cloud-era information security will also be improved, because the data is all in the cloud, the terminal lost or stolen will not cause information leakage. Moreover, data that exists on the Internet through cloud computing always has a redundant image that can be backed up by accident, avoiding the risk of losing data once a system crashes like a home computer system.

At the same time, intensive data storage allows the security services to concentrate their forces on the computing center, without too much emphasis on deploying powerful anti-virus software at every terminal. As an individual user, keeping your account is the best security policy.

Cloud Business Bag check-in

In the past, it was like taking a tent with you and camping on your own, and now the bosses are fully able to carry their bags, not only cheap, but also safe; cloud computing lowers the threshold for new business start-ups

Although the internet of things is still difficult to popularize in the ordinary citizen's life, but the current industrial cloud, design cloud Platform's construction walks in the front end.

In the past, a new internet company wanted to embark on an entrepreneurial path and often needed to build its own servers. The traditional approach faces a dilemma: Once the site's popularity hits the web, the huge pressure will crash the site, but the cost of equipment, maintenance, personnel, venues, and electricity costs makes it impossible for startups to set up too big a server.

In the era of cloud computing, startups have a better choice: to build their own websites on a cloud platform. Unlike ordinary server hosting, the resilience of the cloud allows data centers to automatically control resources based on the needs of the site, allocating CPU, memory, and hard disk space based on the current traffic.

This flexible distribution will save rent for small companies that have just embarked on the entrepreneurial path. Zhang Haibo said: "Cloud computing reduces the threshold for new companies to start a business, can promote China to appear as successful as Google Internet companies." ”

There are also many industrial design companies in Shenzhen, and cloud computing has also brought them a new boost.

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.

Designers have applied computer-aided design (Computer aided designs) and tested them with virtual digital models. "As a result of the introduction of digital-aided design, the number of cars used for testing in the automotive industry has fallen by 80% in 15 years," said Yi, project manager at Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center. ”

However, the cost of designing the software is expensive and requires a dedicated small server for computing, which is still hard to reach for ordinary companies. But the advent of cloud computing solves the company's worries.

Cloud computing not only eliminates hardware investment, it can also reduce software costs. "If a design company buys a license to use CAD software, then the investment is actually wasted when there is no business." In the industrial design cloud, the design company only needs to hire the computing center's license in the design process, which is equivalent to all the design companies raising money to buy software licenses, greatly reducing the cost, small and medium-sized design companies will be more development opportunities. "Yi said.

Even companies that do not work in the Internet or design industries can experience the benefits of cloud computing. Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center provides "SME cloud", customers, orders, financial, human and other management software can be placed in the cloud.

Zhang Haibo The Cloud to a hotel: "Before the company built IT system like to carry a tent, on their own camp." Now, the company bosses can be ' bags ', not only cheap, but also safe. ”

Turn on the Cloud revolution

Cloud computing is the fourth revolution in the information industry following mainframes, PCs, and the Internet

Gage, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, made a famous prediction in 1984: "The Internet is a computer." "Today, this prophecy is becoming reality.

The modern computer originates from the "Neumann model" proposed by the "Father of the computer" John Feng Neumann in the 1940s, in which the computer is divided into five parts: input, storage, control, operation and output. Until today, the PC still follows this pattern.

However, the advent of cloud computing has changed the tradition. The concept of "cloud" was first seen in some diagrams drawn by Internet engineers as a symbol of network representation. Cloud computing means that the user can "outsource" the functions of storage, control and operation to the Supercomputing Center, and only input and output on its own terminals.

Dr Xu Zeming, head of research and development at the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, compared cloud computing to an electric power network: "If you want to use electricity, you don't need to install a generator in your backyard, you just have to connect the grid to your own appliances, and you pay a monthly fee for electricity from the power plant." ”

In addition to being remote, another feature of cloud computing is dynamic. Just as the grid will adjust the working state of the generator set according to the distribution of the load, the network of the cloud computing age can change the computing power according to the user's demand at any time. "The goal of the cloud computing industry is to compute and store, as well as tap water and electricity, to become a cheap and convenient living necessity." "Xu Zeming said.

The advantages of cloud computing are obvious: the intensification of computing and storage greatly improves the efficiency of computers, avoids the duplication of investment in computing power of individuals and businesses, and saves money. At the same time, since data has entered cloud servers, individuals and businesses no longer need to worry about data security.

"Cloud computing is the fourth revolution in the information industry following mainframes, PCs, and the Internet." "In the era of cloud computing, you need to know the input data to get results," Xu Zeming said.

How far is this life from us? For most of the public, cloud computing seems to be a Yunshan concept, but the business world is eager to bring cloud computing into our lives. Apple has launched the icloud Cloud service, all registered users will get 5GB of free space for cloud storage, the same account has all the Apple devices can be directly in the background to sync pictures, music, documents, contacts and application software.

Local manufacturers are also unwilling to be outdone, in the 13th session of the Shenzhen High Fair, Alibaba, Baidu and other companies to display their own cloud services, attracted a lot of attention. In addition, the NDRC has allocated a total of 660 million yuan to several enterprises in five pilot cities including Shenzhen in October to support cloud computing development.

The nature of cloud computing determines its high dependence on network bandwidth, but the domestic network environment, especially the wireless network is not enough to meet the needs of cloud computing. According to the introduction, with the development of fiber-optic household projects and the popularization of 3G or even 4G wireless network, the bandwidth problem will be solved in the next few years, our residents enjoy the cloud life around the corner.

Visiting the heart of the cloud

Dawning 6000 supercomputer has 120,000 CPU cores, the world's fourth-measured computing power

The change in cloud computing requires a big heart.

As computing is concentrated on the Internet, terminal terminals are no longer responsible for most of the computing and storage operations, and thus become increasingly lightweight. Correspondingly, as the heart of cloud computing, access to the Internet will be more and more computational.

In Shenzhen, it beats such a powerful cloud computing heart. On November 23, Nanfang Daily visited the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center in Shenzhen University City, where he saw the heart--the dawning 6000 supercomputer.

Shuguang 6000 Home is an area of 2500 square meters of room, all kinds of large and medium-sized auxiliary equipment more than 520 units, the room has 130 kilometers of wire, 200 km network cable. However, such a big man is an energy-saving model, each watt energy consumption can bring 489 million times/second calculation ability, full load running power consumption of electricity per day 120,000 yuan.

Reporters in the computer room to see, a row of chassis issued a low roar, like a huge bellows, year-round water-cooled and air-cooled two sets of systems to ensure that the room 22 degrees Celsius temperature. In the control room, a large screen covered a whole wall, the above real-time display of Shuguang 6000 storage capacity allocation status, the temperature of each part, resource occupancy rate, fault points are at a glance.

"Supercomputers are not the only thing that connects a bunch of computers together, how a lot of computers collaborate and how they distribute tasks, which is the core technology." "said Dr Yi, project manager at the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center Technical Cooperation Department.

The dawning 6000 supercomputer has 120,000 CPU cores, measuring as much as 1271 trillion times per second, ranking fourth in the world. At the same time, dawning 6000 has 20PB (20 million GB) of storage space, probably equivalent to 17.5 billion books. You know, according to Google's 2010 statistics, there are currently only 1.29 billion books in the world, even 6000 of the dawn of 10% are filled with discontent.

Dr. Yi, currently has a number of users in meteorology, genetic engineering, chemical, automotive design and other fields with the National Center for Supercomputing Shenzhen Cooperation.

Dawn 6000 is unique in that, as a project with a public interest, it has access to the Internet, shouldering the responsibility of cloud computing. Any individual or business can connect to dawning 6000 via the Internet and enjoy a powerful computing function. For the general public, supercomputers are no longer a distant concept, but a real, life-helping helper that can be used every day.

Shenzhen's cloud computing system, "Peng Yun", is mounted on the dawn 6000. The system for each Shenzhen residents reserved 1024GB storage space, as long as the public has a terminal can open the Internet, you can log into the cloud system, the use of social, health, education, office, financial and other applications.

Peng Yun's operating interface is similar to the traditional PC desktop, the new user is very convenient to start. Xu Zeming said: "Peng Yun (Pengyun) in the y is yummy abbreviation, meaning is convenient and easy to use, as long as the computer will be used by people will use Peng Yun system, do not need a second of additional learning." ”

According to the introduction, Peng Yun System is still in the development of tension, soon after will start the public test, and the general public meet.

The pace of building the big heart of cloud computing in Guangdong is expanding. November 25, the Guangdong provincial government, the Guangzhou municipal government, the National Defense Science and Technology University, Zhongshan University held a signing ceremony in Guangzhou, the goal is to build the world's leading supercomputing center in Guangzhou before the end of 2015.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)