OCP is the world’s largest hardware open community with more than 200 core members, including Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Inspur, etc. More than 7,000 companies have participated in community activities. In 2011, Facebook launched the community to restructure data center hardware design and build an innovative technology ecosystem through open source and open source. After the establishment of the community, the development speed exceeded everyone’s expectations. In 2018, the OOC non-board member purchases grew by more than 120% year-on-year, reaching $2.56 billion, and is expected to exceed $10.7 billion by 2022.

At present, all cloud computing data centers adopt OCP open technologies in whole or in part. A large number of innovative technologies and products in the cloud computing era, such as whole rack servers, storage servers, and rack-mounted high-density servers, are in the OCP community. Directly promoted to develop. The development of OCP is also the process of cloud computing transformation in the entire data center industry.

5G spawn cloud data center 2.0

This OCP China Day event focuses on three major issues: edge computing, AI, and cloud data centers. With the application of 5G, the information technology revolution represented by cloud computing, mobile internet, and big data has begun to usher in a new starting point. The 5G era is not only the era of AI, edge computing, but also the era of the Internet of Things, and also greater bandwidth. In the era of large-scale interconnection, cloud data centers need to carry a larger amount of traffic and data, thereby further accelerating scale, modernization and upgrading.

If the current cloud data center is version 1.0, then the cloud data center in the 5G era is version 2.0. Through water cooling, 48V power supply, overcome physical limitations, further improve data center power density; software-defined technology is fully applied, hardware standardization, firmware open source unified, IT infrastructure to achieve true unification, integration, and open; Redfish new management architecture replaces current IPMI, combined with openBMC, forms the next generation of data center management technology ecosystem.

Looking at the next generation of full-rack servers from OpenRack 3.0

As of January 2019, the number of ultra-large-scale data centers in the world has reached 430, an increase of 11% year-on-year, and it is expected to reach 500 by the end of the year. According to the capacity of 100,000 units in each data center, the ultra-large-scale data center has been built to accommodate 43 million servers. According to IDC data, the total global server shipments in 2018 are only 11.75 million units.

These large-scale and ultra-large-scale data centers have been continuously increasing the density of equipment, directly leading to different forms of multi-node servers dominated by whole cabinets. In the past 10 years, the global market share of shipments has risen from 0. Up to 20%. OCP’s OpenRack 2.0 and ODCC’s Scorpio 2.5 are the two major open technology standards for the entire rack server. Most of the deployed servers follow the above two standards. However, these two standards have encountered hard walls that are physically limited in terms of power supply and heat dissipation, and it is difficult to continue to increase the density. Therefore, both OCP and ODCC are developing the next-generation standard 3.0, which is generally supported by 12-48V high-voltage power supply, 15-33KW high-power support, and liquid-cooled heat dissipation.

At the conference, the head of Facebook technology Steve Mills explained the latest OpenRack 3.0 full-rack server specification. The new specification will increase the power from 40OU to 44OU, and the maximum weight will increase from 1400Kg to 1600kg. Supporting 21-inch and 19-inch nodes, the node height unit supports both OU and standard U; the internal structure has also been adjusted to allow users to deploy specialized modules such as heterogeneous accelerators and storage, as the specification involves liquid cooling. And the 48V power supply and other technologies that have not been applied in large scale, many details are still to be determined, so the standard has not been officially released, and is in the stage of public consultation.

Efforts beyond OpenRack 3.0

The open standards of OCP are often derived from mature application practices. The leading practices of member companies will become community standards after a series of complex, rigorous and completely transparent processes. This strict process guarantees the practicality and authority of OCP standards. Sex, also brings a problem – OCP standards lag behind the development of practical applications, such as the standard OAM of heterogeneous accelerators released this year, and NVIDIA’s GPU technology appeared more than a decade ago, GPU is used in the AI ​​field There are also 10 years.

The rapid innovation of OCP and ODCC community members at the technical and program level has made up for the problems caused by the slow upgrade of standards. The innovative IP or technical specifications of OCP members can be published on the community platform as long as they are accepted by the community. At this event, Tencent United Wave contributed the T-flex 2.0 specification to the OCP community, which was previously accepted by the ODCC community. Based on the I/O pooling technology, the server was implemented by decoupling and reorganizing different modules of the server. Modular iteration and flexible combination, can achieve heterogeneous acceleration, cold storage, HPC cluster and other different application scenarios, that is, hyper-scale data centers can be based on the specification for unified server architecture, reducing the complexity of procurement operation and maintenance, Reduce overall costs.

The efficiency of the data center depends not only on innovation at the hardware level, but also on the improvement of management technology. Intel introduced two data center management technologies at the conference. Once most cloud platforms enter the managed broadcast mode (that is, the management node sends various scheduling commands to the resource nodes), all resource nodes will prioritize the management commands, causing the currently queued business processes to stop, and the services will appear transient. Interrupted, Intel put the management interrupt function on the PRM level, which can effectively shorten the business interruption time. In addition, the cooling system of the data center will be adjusted according to the load level, but the feedback of the large-scale data center is complex and the delay is very high, resulting in the cooling adjustment being significantly slower than the load change. Intel has added the prediction window supported by AI in the management system. The cooling system adjustment does not have to rely on feedback, and the cooling strategy is more precise.

Open refactoring of IT infrastructure

Microsoft’s SONiC has been the most successful data center open-source project in recent years. The 400G Ethernet switches of Mellanox and DELTA support SONiC. The Phoenix project of China’s ODCC community also adopts SONiC. Microsoft has built the open-source switch operating system SONiC. The white box switch integrates into the industrial ecology.

Alibaba shared the application practice of SONiC at the event. Alibaba adopted SONiC to build a super-large production network, connecting hundreds of thousands of servers, millions of virtual machines and tens of millions of terminals, achieving high bandwidth and low latency. Alibaba has the ability to withstand the “Double Eleven” network frenzy, and Alibaba has done a lot of personalized development based on SONiC, which has promoted the innovation of Alibaba’s actual business.

SDN technology such as SONiC reconstructs data center network, SDS technology such as Ceph reconstructs data center storage, cloud computing technology such as OpenStack reconstructs data center server, and open source definition software and standardized hardware are becoming standardization of next generation IT infrastructure. select.

Open Firmware, open at the firmware level

OCP’s other community project, Open Firmware, has grown rapidly in recent years. The community’s mission is to develop agile, open, and standard firmware design specifications to accommodate the needs of next-generation cloud computing infrastructure development. Firmware refers to the underlying code of the device stored inside the device. Similar to the “driver”, the operating system must be driven by the firmware to drive the components of the server. Through the openness of the firmware, the data center can develop a deep data center unified management solution, and implement advanced operations such as remote unified upgrade of firmware, thereby simplifying the operation and maintenance complexity of the data center and even realizing the autonomy of the data center.

The project team is developing open source kits that include only the most basic platform code to identify white-box hardware, and also develop a white-box hardware system that can be built and booted by joint community members to form a soft and hard-open Open Firmware ecosystem.

OpenRMC, the framework for the next generation of management technology

OpenRMC, another project group led by Inspur, is working on integrating OpenBMC and Redfish to form a unified framework for next-generation data center management. This is a joint project of Linux, DMTF and OCP communities.

The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) is an embedded management unit that monitors the status of the server and provides out-of-band management services. The BMC software stacks of all major server vendors are closed source and have poor compatibility, which affects the unified management of data center equipment. Therefore, in 2015, Facebook launched the OpenBMC open-source project, and the project was transferred to the Linux Foundation.

RedFish is the next generation data center management standard developed by the OMTF standards organization to replace the current IPMI. IPMI has fewer functions and poor scalability, and is only suitable for small and medium-sized data center management. Redfish has good scalability and rich functions. It provides standardized and easy-to-integrate management interfaces for various vendors’ diverse infrastructures. In addition to servers, Redfish is gradually expanding its support for storage and networking to meet the needs of hyperscale data centers. Advanced management needs.

OCP’s OpenRMC team has developed the industry’s first version of OpenBMC that is compliant with the Redfish specification, further enhancing the modularity and standardization of OpenBMC and accelerating the introduction of formal community standards. In the future, OpenRMC is expected to be integrated with Open Firmware to form a complete set of data center management architecture specifications deep into the firmware layer.

Unity, openness, integration, technology and industry

The OCP China Day event showcases technical content and constitutes a complete next-generation cloud data center technology framework – a new and upgraded form of Open Rack 3.0, with open integration and richer management from firmware to data center. These technologies will gradually replace the original technology with the application of 5G and AI, and complete the upgrade of the entire technology ecology.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that OCP, ODCC and other open hardware and software communities are being driven by actual needs, deep communication and cooperation, and even blurring the boundaries. At the conference, the keynote speech not only came from the OCP technical groups, but also from the ODCC community. Baidu shared the practical experience of the Scorpio server.

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Since the birth of the Internet bubble and modern data centers in 2000, information technology has exploded in 2004. Google stock is priced at $85 a year and is now worth $1,500. Amazon was not even born in 1993, and today it is one of the most valuable companies in the world with Apple and Microsoft.

These data-dependent data centers are more widely known in the private sector than in the public sector, although most of them are owned or used by industry giants such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

Data centers are the way of the digital revolution, but little is known about the work of data centers, people and data centers.

This must change because modern business cases in data centers must address issues related to sustainability, security, regulation, and transparency while addressing the sustainability and governance of infrastructure-sensitive people across the technology supply chain. Also interested because they need more bandwidth, innovation and time to market.

Data security is a major factor

In this case, how does the data center maintain an orderly operation? Compared to cloud computing technology, data centers consume more energy, are limited by capacity, and face risk bottlenecks, poor service, and customer anger risk decision makers. How to reduce risk while maintaining service standards and customer satisfaction? What are the key drivers when retrofitting? Can future changes be prevented simply by restoring the data center?

As people expect from the information industry, data centers have sufficient facts and data to answer these questions and address pressing issues such as continuity and sustainability, and of course security and data privacy.

People are paying more and more attention to their data, not to mention their sustainability and carbon footprint. Regulators are also asking questions about the supervision, responsibility, and supervision of GDPR regulations. Without adequate oversight, people begin to value the future of data that requires a hard answer about which data controller is responsible for its management and where. Data centers that take steps to prevent these problems through tangible evidence will provide good services to investors.

It is important to ensure that the data center is located in a country where the physical location itself is not compromised. Therefore, you also need to make sure that you are legally safe. You need to choose a provider with a data center in a country with stable regulations. If you need legal recourse, you can do so.

Climate issues create new opportunities

The data center generates about 2% of the world’s greenhouse gases, which is at the same level as the aviation industry, so new ways to improve its environmental impact must be found. European countries such as the United Kingdom have only 2% of the remaining electricity capacity and need to carefully study the use of key energy supplies and provide power to technology companies.

Existing data center operators need to pay attention to the future direction of development and how its actions can adapt to a wider range of environmental issues. Microsoft, the industry leader at the forefront of change, has promised to provide 60% renewable energy to its data center by the end of 2019 and 70% renewable energy by 2023.

An astonishing example of radical thinking in data center technology is the use of oceans for natural cooling. Another Microsoft initiative is the Natick project, which deploys a small data center underwater near the Scottish coast. Many in the industry also see the future of modular data centers that can be deployed locally to provide storage and processing power.

By emphasizing forward-looking innovations in sensitive areas such as sustainability and climate change, the data center industry can use facts to offset disputes.

Data center transformation

The transformation of the data center brings a lot of complexity, the most important of which is to ensure security and stability.

In the past, the most important consideration in data center design and planning was over-provisioning of cooling and power capacity to meet future capacity needs, and customer concerns have raised questions about data center sustainability.

Therefore, the focus of the organization on the data center is to control the budget. The greatest value extracted from data center facilities is focused on the core mechanisms of the data center, installation, upgrades, mechanical structures, switchgear, high and low voltage facilities, air conditioning and heating. The data center replaces the server every three years and periodically replaces IT hardware, coolers, hot aisles, transformers, computer rooms, and air conditioning facilities (CRAC). Technicians conduct preliminary investigations and consultations, while engineers conduct in-depth investigations, provide solutions and professional advice to provide a better customer experience.

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John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd., said: “Under the theme of “Zhilian All Things”, 5G has become the focus of the entire MWC19 Shanghai. In addition to the release of 5G mobile phones, the exhibition halls have presented many new products. New services and 5G presentations – Participants are excited to experience such a rich 5G interactive experience. Today we celebrate the success of the fascinating MWC19 Shanghai, which brings representatives from all over the global ecosystem. The mobile industry continues to grow strongly in 5G, while MWC Shanghai showcases the best and most influential elements of the current Internet era.”

MWC19 Shanghai Conference: Zhilian All Things

The three-day MWC19 Shanghai conference showcases a new era of highly contextualized, personalized experiences that are driven by high-speed, flexible 5G networks, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data deep convergence. Keynote speakers from: Adriel, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Huawei, JPMorgan Chase, Qualcomm, Reliance Jio, Telenor Pakistan, Changfei Fiber and ZTE.

Participants feel 5G power

Participants experienced 5G network coverage in all seven MWC19 Shanghai pavilions supported by three major Chinese operators and their partners, enabling exhibitors to launch 5G-supported demonstrations and events at the event. These include:

• Real-time 5G connectivity supported by AIS, China Mobile and Mediapro for remote guided surgery. With the patient’s full consent, Dr. Antonio de Lacy, co-founder of AIS, the head of gastrointestinal surgery at Barcelona Clinical Hospital, provided real-time guidance to the Shanghai Oriental Hospital operating room from the event venue;
• Diamond Partner China Mobile has displayed a number of 5G interactive experiences in the exhibition hall, covering sports, performing arts and cultural events, and providing ultra-high definition 5G connectivity to all participants during the event;
• MWC19 Shanghai “Connect” event partner Ericsson shared its insights on how to plan execution and smooth transition to 5G.

In addition, the Partner Program explores the future of 5G, including:

• At the China Mobile 5G+ conference, GSMA, government officials, international industry and ecosystem partners attended the event. At the meeting, China Mobile introduced an exciting plan to deploy its 5G network in more than 340 Chinese cities next year. ;
• The China Unicom International Partner Conference discussed the opportunities, trends and best practices of the telecommunications industry with the theme of “5G ⁿ Zhilian Future”;
• With the theme of “5G+X, Beyond Connection”, the GTI Summit discussed the maturity of the 5G industry and how the new business that 5G will generate will reshape the future society.

Industry leaders gathered in MWC19 Shanghai

GSMA hosted the Digital Leadership Program series for the first time at MWC Shanghai, bringing together the most forward-thinking leaders from all walks of life in a broader ecosystem to explore and lead the digital transformation of the business. Leaders of China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Huawei, ZTE, Shanghai Nokia Bell, Qualcomm, JP Morgan Chase, Broadband Capital, Haier, SF Holdings, ABB, Neusoft Hanfeng and Synchronoss discussed how to jointly promote sustainable development Digital future challenges, innovation and cooperation.

The Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Program brings together stakeholders such as policy makers, industry leaders, artificial intelligence experts, academia, and start-ups to discuss major policy developments, how to inspire new innovations, and how to apply artificial intelligence throughout the digital economy. problem. In addition, GSMA partnered with INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools, to provide attendees with the first master class at MWC19 Shanghai to teach ways to discover and cross the barriers to business development in the digital transformation era.

Innovation and startups gather in 4YFN innovation series

The 4YFN Innovation Series is one of the most influential entrepreneurial platforms in the world, focusing on docking and building an entrepreneurial ecosystem. This year, GSMA launched the Investor Club and Discovery Discovery area, where start-ups connect with investors through entrepreneurial gatherings and social events. More than 100 investors participated in the event, including Kaihui Sino-French Innovation Fund, China Mobile Innovation Industry Fund and Shenchuang Valley. Here, the specially established Internet of Things demonstration space “Connecting China” focuses on the innovation progress in the field of Internet of Things. At the main meeting of the 4YFN stage, we once again saw high-level speakers discussing the main issues facing startups and technology. Throughout the exhibition area, exhibiting startups have demonstrated their pioneering technologies.

The finalists of the 2019 4YFN Start-up Enterprise Awards were presented in front of a number of expert judges, and the fast refund company RefundMe took the lead.

Demonstrate the future of mobility

This year’s event highlights technologies, products and services that shape the future of mobility. Including a new pavilion, MWC19 Shanghai’s exhibition, hotel and conference space is close to 100,000 square meters – nearly three times more since the launch of the event in 2012. Companies that showcase their innovations include AsiaInfo Technology, China Information and Communication Technology Group (CICT), China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Ericsson, F1 E-sports, Huawei, Intracom Telecom, Korea Information and Communication Technology Industry Association (KICTA), Lenovo , Xinhua III, Shanghai Nokia Bell, Oppo, Qualcomm, Samsung LSI, vivo, Whale Technology, Changfei Fiber, ZTE and so on.

GSMA Innovation City

The GSMA Innovative City is a popular destination for MWC19 Shanghai attendees, where attendees experience 5G, IoT, artificial intelligence and big data, and see for themselves how they will actively improve the lives and business of people around the world. At the site, participants learned how the mobile industry can improve all aspects of life by participating in a series of hands-on demonstrations, including transportation, health, agriculture, industry, home and retail. Well-known companies such as BICS, China Mobile Microphone, G7 Wisdom, Huawei, myFC, Singtel and Shanghai Reta Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. are participating in innovative cities. The exhibition area also includes major projects of GSMA, such as future networks, identification and Internet of Things. Wait.

Women4Tech: Support diversity and reduce gender differences

During MWC19 Shanghai, GSMA continued to support more women’s participation activities. This year, the number of Speaker4Tech keynote speakers increased by 20%, and 77% of the entire Women4Tech conference activities were women, all of whom were directors, vice presidents or C-level executives. Women4Tech plans to return to Shanghai this year and launch more activities aimed at addressing and reducing gender disparities in the mobile industry. Ericsson is the lead sponsor of the Women4Tech Summit, and senior executives from JPMorgan Asia, KDDI, Lenovo, LinkedIn China, MasterCard, UNICEF and the University of Hong Kong gave speeches at the event.

After the completion of MWC19 Shanghai, John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd., said: “On behalf of GSMA, I would like to thank all participants, exhibitors, sponsors and partners for their concerted efforts to make this year’s MWC19 Shanghai a great success. We also express our heartfelt thanks to the Chinese government and Shanghai, and look forward to meeting us again in Shanghai next year!”

For MWC19 Shanghai news coverage, event highlights and keynotes, please visit Mobile World Live at www.mobileworldlive.com/mwc19-shanghai/ .

MWC20 Shanghai will be held from June 30 to July 2, 2020.

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To the editor:

1. This number represents the number of individual participants in this event, including delegates, exhibitors, contractors and the media; it does not represent the total number of visitors to the event.

About GSMA

GSMA represents the common interest of global mobile operators. GSMA connects more than 750 mobile operators to more than 400 companies in the broader global mobile ecosystem, including handset and terminal manufacturers, software companies, equipment vendors, Internet companies, and related industry organizations. GSMA hosts industry-leading MWC conferences and regional conferences for the Mobile 360 ​​series in Barcelona, ​​Los Angeles and Shanghai each year.

For more information on GSMA, please visit www.gsma.com .

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