Six trends and eight technologies of high-performance computing in data centers under "data center white paper 2022" and "computing from the east to the west"

Count from east to west  | Data Center  |  High performance computing

Computing power center  | Low carbon and energy saving  | GPU The server

In the age of digital economy , Computing power is gradually becoming a new productivity , Widely used in all aspects of society , Provide a driving force for the digital transformation of all walks of life . The data center is the physical carrier of computing power , Is the key infrastructure for digital development .

at present , China's data center industry is evolving from high-speed development to high-quality development . In layout , National integrated data center 、 Introduction and implementation of new data center and other policy documents “ Count from east to west ” Implementation of the project , Point out the direction for the coordinated and integrated development of the data center , Promote the continuous optimization of the industrial layout of the national data center .

The fourth industrial revolution driven by digital technology has brought great reform to human production and life . As the physical basis of various digital technology applications , The industrial enabling value of data centers is gradually becoming prominent . In the world , Most countries in the world are actively guiding the development of data center industry , The data center market is expanding , Active investment and M & A, increasingly fierce competition . At home ,“ New infrastructure ” Development and “ the 14th Five-Year Plan ” Putting forward the goal of Building Digital China , Provide important guidance for the construction of digital infrastructure in China . China's data center industry has entered a new stage , The size of the data center has grown steadily , Low carbon 、 High-quality 、 The pattern of coordinated development is gradually taking shape .

Steady and rapid development in six directions

One 、 Data center spending growth ： International stability , Domestic acceleration

The increase of global data centers is relatively stable . According to the annual increase of global servers ,2015 - 2021 The scale of new servers put into use in is relatively stable , The net added value is also relatively stable . It is expected that the scale of data center will continue to grow steadily in the next few years .

Annual increase of global servers （ mw ）

China's data center rack scale continues to grow steadily , The scale of large and above data centers is growing rapidly . In recent years , The scale of China's data center rack is growing steadily . according to 2.5kW Statistics of standard racks , To 2021 By the end of the year, the scale of data center racks in use in China had reached 520 Ten thousand units , The average annual growth rate in the past five years has exceeded 30%. among , The rack size of large and above data centers is growing more rapidly . according to 2.5kW Standard rack statistics , The rack size is 420 ten thousand , Proportion 80%.

China's data center rack scale

Two 、 Data center market revenue ： International stability , High domestic growth rate

Data center market revenue ,2021 In, the global data center market exceeded 679 Billion dollars , a 2020 Annual growth 9.8%. expect 2022 The annual market revenue will reach 746 Billion dollars , The overall growth rate remained stable .

Global data center market size

In the new infrastructure 、 Driven by national policies such as digital transformation and the long-term goal of Digital China, as well as the demand of enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency , China's data center business revenue continues to grow at a high speed .2021 year , The market revenue of China's data center industry has reached 1500 Billion yuan , The average annual compound growth rate in recent three years is 30.69%. With the development of various regions in China 、 The deepening of digital transformation in various industries , The market revenue of China's data center industry will maintain a continuous growth trend .

China's data center market scale

3、 ... and 、 Emerging markets are strong , There are various scenes in China

globally , Driven by the global digital economy , India 、 Emerging markets such as South Africa have gradually strengthened policy support and industrial investment in data centers , Become an important factor driving the growth of global data center demand .2015 Year initiated “ Digital India ” Provide continuous support for digital development in India , The construction of big data center is one of the important contents of the plan .

2021 year , Issued by the Ministry of communications and digital science and technology of South Africa 《 Draft national data and cloud policy 》, Guide the construction of national high-performance computing and data center . High performance computing and data centers are mainly composed of Sentech and Broadband Infraco The merger of two existing data centers , Will serve governments at all levels 、 Enterprises and universities provide cloud services . The government led data center construction will lay a solid foundation for the development of digital economy in South Africa .

Market aspect , India is increasingly rich in intelligent terminal devices and digital consumption scenarios , The demand for data storage surged . meanwhile , The aggravation of the COVID-19 has turned more offline business activities to online . The vigorous application of digital technology and consumer demand provide a good external environment for the development of India's data center industry . Multinational enterprises are optimistic about the development of India's digital economy , Strengthen digital service capacity through data center construction .2020 year , Amazon will invest in the Indian state of trengana 28 Billion dollars to build a new digital Center , This will be Amazon's second cloud computing area in India . Amazon's investment in the Indian data center market continues to increase , It will better comply with India's data localization policy .

meanwhile ,2019 In, the company announced that it would invest in the Indian market in the next three years 10 Billion dollars , Among them, the investment in data center accounts for a large proportion . Compared with the active Indian market , Multinational corporations' investment in the South African market is still in its infancy .2019 Microsoft took the lead in announcing the opening of a data center in South Africa , Become one of the world's leading cloud service providers in Africa ;2020 Amazon's first cloud data center in South Africa was officially opened in , It provides convenient cloud computing services for millions of customers . With the rapid development of digital economy in South Africa , More data centers and cloud service providers are expected to enter the South African market .

From the perspective of China , High-tech 、 Digital transformation 、 Diversified computing power demand scenarios such as end consumption are emerging , The effect of computing power is prominent .

In high technology , Highly complex computing scenarios require more high-performance computing power , Supercomputing can provide medical services with high-performance computing power 、 Aerospace 、 Provide support for exploring areas . at present ,E Level supercomputing has become an important direction for countries all over the world to compete in the field of supercomputing , There is still much room for improvement in computing power and efficiency in China . In terms of industrial digital transformation , Internet 、 signal communication 、 Modern service industries such as finance need to provide services for a large number of end customers , The application of digital technology in enterprises is relatively mature , High degree of digitization .

With the introduction of the 14th five year plan and other policies , And the continuous evolution of technology R & D and business applications , The state grid 、 Southern power grid 、 petrochina 、 Sinopec and other traditional Chinese industrial enterprises have also begun to actively promote the construction of computing infrastructure , Provide support for enterprise digital transformation . In terms of mobile consumption and intelligent terminals , In recent years , The number of mobile terminal users and intelligent terminal devices in China is growing rapidly , The application scenarios of terminal devices are constantly enriched , The demand for real-time computing power is increasing .

Heterogeneous computing power requirements in different scenarios

In computing power , The diversified development trend of China's data center is gradually emerging , Smart computing centers and edge data centers will maintain rapid growth . For a long time , China's data centers are mainly based on general computing power , Supercalculation 、 The application and number of Intelligent Computing and edge data centers need to be increased . With the development of high-performance computing in China 、AI The increasing demand for computing and edge computing , Supercalculation 、 Smart computing and edge data centers will be further developed , Computing power will show a diversified development trend .

at present , The data center of general computing power is still the main force in the market , By rack size 90% above ; Supercomputing Center is mainly used in major national scientific research fields , There are few business application scenarios ; The Intelligent Computing Center has gradually moved from early experimental exploration to commercial pilot . Although the existing scale is not high , However, with the enrichment of various artificial intelligence application scenarios in China , The demand for intelligent computing will grow rapidly , The scale growth rate is expected to reach 70%. The edge data center can provide real-time computing power for intelligent terminals and Internet of things devices . With the acceleration of China's digital transformation , Including the development of industrial Internet , The demand for edge computing will be further enhanced , The scale growth of edge data centers is expected to reach 30%.

Four 、 Big data center operators look at overseas markets

To enrich business sources , Major data center operators actively expand overseas markets , Expand industrial territory . Take China Telecom 、 China Mobile 、CenturyLink and NTT Communications Basic telecom operators represented by , As well as Equinix、 Third party data center operators represented by Wanguo data , With the first mover advantage , Has mastered large-scale data center resources in China .

Basic telecom operators and third-party data center operators are in the process of continuous development , Relying on resources 、 Capital and technology R & D advantages , By cultivating private brands 、 Broaden international marketing channels 、 Provide all-round supporting data center services , Accelerate the layout of data centers around the world .

For example, the world's leading data center operator Equinix, In Singapore 、 Hong Kong 、 Tokyo 、 Sydney 、 Jakarta and other places have data center layout ;2021 year , Wanguo will initially form the market layout of Southeast Asia , And will invest in the construction of super large-scale data center parks in Malaysia and Indonesia ; China Mobile International Co., Ltd (CMI)2021 In, the data center in Frankfurt, Germany was put into use .

As more and more giant enterprises are not limited to the local market , Actively expand the industrial layout of the data center , The competitive arena of global data centers will be further expanded .“ Sea ” Enterprises need to strengthen technology research and development and resource acquisition , To ensure greater competitive advantage .

The data center industry is ushering in a wave of mergers and acquisitions , Large transactions are frequent , The market structure may show a stronger trend . In the context of global low-carbon energy conservation strategy , The resources of developed cities and surrounding areas are becoming more and more difficult to obtain . meanwhile , Because new data center projects often need 1-2 Years of construction time , Financing is convenient 、 Sufficient funds 、 Data center market participants with flexible organization tend to participate through mergers and acquisitions “ Buy ” Data center resources or projects , To expand business scale .

Take the situation in China as an example . At present, there are two ways of M & A in the industry .

1、 Resource acquisition

More specific to the approved energy consumption quota 、 land use right 、 Workshop, etc . The purpose is to fill the shortage of data centers in some regions , Reserve scarce resources in high-quality areas .

2、 Acquire mature data center projects

Usually target the profitability of the acquired data center , Or new enterprises entering the data center industry across borders intend to speed up the layout , Shorten the construction period , Reduce the difficulty of transformation .

2021 year ,Equinix To spend 3.2 $billion acquisition of Nigerian data center and connection service provider MainOne Fill the gap in the African market ; Baoneng Chuangzhan to 16.5 Billion yuan to acquire Dr. Peng's 5 Data center 9 An aircraft building , Accelerate your entry into the data center market . M & a mode , Enterprises can quickly obtain scarce resources , Improve market share and industry position , Even accelerate the entry into the blank market that has not been involved . The expansion of basic resources will effectively promote the income growth of enterprises , After acquiring more resources, we will continue to accelerate the accumulation of resources , So the stronger, the stronger .

5、 ... and 、 Low carbon environmental protection ： Technology continues to improve

The rapid emergence of innovative technologies in the data center , Continuous improvement of management and financial system , It provides an effective boost for the green and low-carbon development of the data center . In terms of technological innovation , Liquid cooling 、 Cold storage 、 High voltage DC 、 Waste heat utilization 、 Energy storage power station and other technologies, as well as solar energy 、 Utilization of renewable energy such as wind energy , Can further reduce data center energy consumption and carbon emissions . In management and Finance , The industry-leading data center promotes the green transformation of the data center by establishing a green data center management system and an internal carbon pricing system ; Establishment and improvement of green power certificate and green power trading market mechanism , It can effectively stimulate the enthusiasm of data centers to use green energy and reduce carbon emissions .

technology 、 Management and financial innovation help the green and low-carbon development of data center

Internet giants actively promote the use of green energy , Promote energy conservation and emission reduction in data centers . Google 、 Apple and Facebook Actively announce the progress of renewable energy use , And on 2017 year 、2018 Years and 2020 Implemented in its operating system 100% Renewable energy use . Microsoft and Amazon plan to 2025 Years of implementation 100% The goal of using renewable energy . In order to better promote energy conservation and emission reduction in the data center , Google in 2020 year 9 Month proposed , To 2030 In, all data centers around the world should realize hourly real-time renewable energy supply , namely 24/7 Zero carbon operation management plan . By optimizing the backup power system in the data center , Including energy storage batteries and low-carbon fuels ( Hydrogen fuel ), Microsoft is in 2020 Successfully completed the test of hydrogen fuel cell , This will eliminate the dependence on diesel generators for standby power supply , Lay a solid foundation for carbon emission reduction .

China's leading Internet companies and third-party service providers are also actively carrying out energy-saving and emission reduction technology practice , The green and low-carbon level of building and operating data centers has reached the world's leading level . Baidu cloud ( Yangquan ) Application of municipal power direct supply in Computing Center +HVDC、 Independently developed “ Zero power consumption ” Roof cooling unit and AI Optimization techniques , Average annual PUE 1.08; The capital data center of Qinhuai data ring adopts modularization 、 Green power trading, resource recovery and other technologies , Average annual PUE 1.15, Renewable energy utilization 100%. Kunshan No.1 data center of CICC data adopts energy-saving technology and clean energy procurement , Achieve carbon neutrality . Data center carbon utilization (CUE) by 0.49.

6、 ... and 、 The central and local governments work together

New data center is the direction of Industrial Development ,“ Senior four and senior three ” The connotation is constantly enriched .2021 year 7 month , Issued by the ministry of industry and information technology 《 Three year action plan for new data center development (2021-2023 year )》, Clearly point out the development direction and path of the new data center . Focus on high technology 、 High calculation power 、 High energy efficiency 、 Four characteristics of high safety , And digital cloud collaboration 、 Cloud side collaboration 、 Requirements for data network collaboration , Guide the high-quality development of China's data center . meanwhile , The action plan also starts from the layout 、 The Internet 、 Calculate the force 、 The industrial chain 、 Green low carbon 、 Security and other aspects have given comprehensive guidance to the construction of the new data center .

1、 Layout

Form a national hub node 、 Provincial Data Center 、 Echelon layout of edge data center ;

2、 The Internet

Focus on the whole country 、 Area 、 Key nodes of edge network , Promote the improvement of network quality , Promote the coordinated development of multiple networks ;

3、 Calculate the force

introduce FLOPS To assess the computing power of the data center , Guide the data center to evolve from extensive rack scale growth to high-quality computing power and efficiency improvement .

4、 The industrial chain

Encourage research and development of core technologies and standards , Strengthen the construction of industrial chain system ;

5、 Green low carbon

Accelerate the industrial application of green technology , Improve the utilization level of new energy , Optimize green management capacity building ;

6、 Security

It will improve the ability of network security guarantee and data resource management , Improve the reliability of the new data center .

Eight technologies are constantly changing

One 、 Application of new energy technology

Energy storage technology through “ Peak shaving and valley filling ” Become an important way to reduce the power cost of Data Center . The data center consumes a lot of energy , Electricity costs account for... Of the total operating costs 60%-70%. at present , Although many data centers improve the power utilization of data centers through energy-saving optimization , However, the cost of electricity still accounts for a large proportion of the total cost of Data Center . In order to balance the power consumption period of the power grid , Power supply companies usually provide peak and valley electricity prices . The data center can use the energy storage system to store electric energy in the trough period , Use during peak periods , Reduce the power cost of the data center .

Cold storage 、 Energy storage is an important solution . Cold storage can prepare cold energy when the power load is low at night , When the power load is high during the day, the prepared cold energy is applied to the air conditioning system . Energy storage is realized through energy storage devices . Lithium battery has become one of the backup energy storage schemes for the next generation data center because of its high density and high output voltage .

The integration with new energy storage technology is deepening , The energy structure of the data center has been effectively transformed , Raise the level of green and low carbon . With the tightening of data center energy consumption policy and the establishment of carbon neutrality goal , New energy power supply has gradually become an important way for data centers to achieve zero carbon emission , wind 、 light 、 water 、 The proportion of clean energy such as hydrogen will continue to increase . The data center can directly use new energy to realize energy supply , It can also indirectly promote the use of new energy through carbon emission trading .

Although new energy power generation has the advantages of clean and environmental protection , However, the supply of new energy is easily affected by natural conditions , It is difficult to guarantee its continuity . Integration with new energy storage technology , It can effectively improve the stability of new energy supply , Solve the power imbalance of renewable energy system application 、 The problem of poor stability .

Some data centers at home and abroad have begun to try large-scale power supply schemes of new energy and energy storage , It provides an important reference for the application and promotion of new energy and energy storage technology in the data center .2020 year 8 month , American energy developers Capital Dynamics With data center operators Switch Signed a power purchase agreement for solar energy and energy storage projects . Based on this Agreement ,Switch Will receive round the clock green power support . The project includes a 127MW A solar power plant and a 240MWh Battery energy storage system .

domestically ,2021 year 7 month , Century Internet's new generation Dutch storage data center project ended in Foshan smart city data center , This is a data center project to realize the application of large-scale energy storage technology . The project takes the data center as the main load object , Equipped with 2MWh Energy storage capacity ,1MW Output power . The whole energy storage system consists of energy storage containers 、PCS Warehouse and ring main cabinet , It is coupled with the photovoltaic power generation system on the AC side . Finally, the data center 10kV The high voltage side is connected to the power grid , Make the data center form a complex with variable and adjustable load , The charging and discharging strategy can be adjusted according to the demand of power grid and new energy power generation .

Two 、 The intelligence of operation and maintenance has been continuously improved

The application of intelligent operation and maintenance can effectively improve the process and standardization of data center operation and maintenance , Improve the efficiency of operation and maintenance management . With the increasing scale of Data Center , The amount of business and data carried by the data center is growing , The operation and maintenance mode of data center is also evolving rapidly . The application of intelligent operation and maintenance tools makes the operation and maintenance management of data center more efficient .

In the period of manual operation and maintenance , Data center operation and maintenance managers lack effective operation and maintenance tools , Operation and maintenance management activities depend more on their personal knowledge and technical level . With the rapid growth of the data center , The scope and difficulty of data center operation and maintenance services have been significantly improved . It is difficult to guarantee the quality of operation and maintenance services only by personal experience .

In the above case , There began to be a process 、 Standardized operation and maintenance . The purpose of process and standardized operation and maintenance is to define processes and standard documents , Promote the standardization of operation and maintenance management activities , Reduce dependence on personal knowledge and skills of operation and maintenance personnel . Automation platform operation and maintenance is a process 、 Further development of standardized operation and maintenance . Automatic operation and maintenance tools are built through the platform , Turn a large number of repetitive operation and maintenance activities into automatic operation , Improved operation and maintenance efficiency , Enhance the visualization of operation and maintenance process . Intelligent operation and maintenance is based on data , Supported by algorithms , Scene oriented , Provide intelligent solutions for data center operation and maintenance management , Realize the real-time analysis and processing of problems , Reduce alarm noise , And analyze and predict the causes of faults and problems .

Development history of data center operation and maintenance

2021 year 7 month , Ministry of industry 《 Three year action plan for new data center development (2021-2023 year )》 Clearly put forward “ For power supply and distribution 、 Refrigeration 、IT And network equipment 、 Focus on key links such as intelligent system , New data center , Build the strong , Make up for the weak ”. Policies guide the intelligent development of data center operation and maintenance management , The industry pays more and more attention to intelligent operation and maintenance .

Chinese Internet enterprises and third-party service providers actively carry out intelligent operation practice . Wanguo data Beijing No. 4 data center uses a large number of automation equipment with professional experience to replace manual operation in infrastructure construction , Improve fault alarm and response speed , Combined with independently developed operation management platform and application software , Realize efficient and high-quality operation and maintenance from local to regional and then to the whole country . Tencent Huailai Beirui Cloud Data Center , Based on the data center automation management platform developed by Tencent, Tencent Zhiwei , Built the park 、 Area 、 A three-level closed-loop management system linked by the headquarters , The second level sensitive sensing is realized by reconstructing the alarm link . Calculate through the application diagram 、 Object model and other technologies , Fast alarm convergence is realized , The accuracy of automatic fault location is as high as 99.9%.

Intelligent network operation and maintenance is one of the important application scenarios of intelligent operation and maintenance of data center . Intelligent network operation and maintenance technology can continuously promote network visibility 、 Improvement of manageability and controllability . As the size of the data center continues to expand , The complexity of the data center network is also increasing . meanwhile , Users' quality of data center network 、 Higher requirements for reliability and safety . The traditional data center network has signal interference in the process of operation and maintenance 、 Application guarantee and other issues . Poor manual operation and maintenance efficiency , When dealing with sudden network failure, it is difficult to make timely network failure treatment and operation and maintenance .

at present , The industry has proposed to “ Autopilot network ” Intelligent network operation and maintenance optimization technology represented by , The fusion AI Technology realizes the control of data center network 、 Automatic operation and maintenance and optimization , Recover and cure all kinds of network failures , Manage congestion , Support automatic network tuning and self evolution , Provide users with better network services .

stay 2021 Open data center Summit , China Academy of communications 、 Huawei 、 China Mobile Research Institute and other units jointly released 《 Super fusion data center network lossless Ethernet scenario evaluation specification 》, Slave function 、 performance 、 reliability 、 Compatibility 、 Operation and maintenance and other dimensions are important to distributed storage 、 Centralized storage and high-performance computing scenarios are evaluated . According to the evaluation results , Lossless networks are divided into five levels , Respectively, the non-destructive ability is not yet mature 、 Have basic nondestructive ability 、 Non destructive capability mature 、 Good nondestructive ability 、 Excellent nondestructive ability , Operation and maintenance is an important rating dimension .

meanwhile , Huawei in 《 Huawei data center autopilot network white paper 》 Define the autopilot network as five levels , It is pointed out that fully autonomous network is the ultimate goal of data center network development . Under the fully autonomous network , The network system itself will face any scenario , Capable of execution 、 monitor 、 The ability to analyze and make decisions , Fully realize the automation of closed-loop management , True realization “ unmanned ”.

3、 ... and 、 The construction period of the project is shortened

With the deep integration of prefabricated building technology and modular data center , The reliability and experience of the new generation of assembled modular data centers have been greatly improved . With the rapid iteration of information technology and the shortening of users' requirements for the delivery cycle of Data Center , The traditional data center construction mode is more and more difficult to meet the actual needs , Data center prefabrication has become one of the key technologies to realize the rapid construction of data center .

Data center Prefabrication Technology has been developed for many years . Early prefabricated data centers were designed in the form of all-in-one machines , A single box integrates all subsystems of the data center , It can meet the requirements of rapid deployment and emergency construction of small data centers .

Based on the all-in-one machine , The industry has gradually realized the equipment area 、 Modularization of core areas such as power distribution area , Traditional prefabricated modular data centers have emerged . Due to reliability 、 Space and standardization constraints , Traditional prefabricated modular data centers are still mainly used for small-scale and specific scenarios . With the maturity of prefabricated modular concept and the development of modular data center , The integration of prefabricated modular building technology and modular data center is deepening , A new generation of prefabricated modular data centers are beginning to appear .

Four 、 The commercial conditions of liquid cooling technology are gradually mature

Liquid cooling technology is developing rapidly , The system reliability is gradually improved . Liquid cooling technology uses liquid as heat transfer medium to exchange heat and cool near the heat source , Instead of indirect cooling through air like wind cooling . Because the liquid has a relatively high specific heat capacity , Its refrigeration effect and energy efficiency are much higher than that of air cooling , In high density 、 On a large scale 、 It has obvious advantages in data centers with high heat dissipation requirements .

According to the contact mode between the end of the liquid cooling machine room and heat sources such as servers , Liquid cooling can be divided into indirect liquid cooling technology and direct liquid cooling technology . In indirect liquid cooling , The heat source is not in direct contact with the coolant . In direct liquid cooling technology , The coolant directly contacts with the heating electronic components for heat exchange and refrigeration . Indirect liquid cooling is mainly cold plate , The single-phase cold plate liquid cooling scheme is more common . Direct liquid cooling is mainly submerged , High heat dissipation efficiency , Low noise .

at present , Liquid cooling technology has developed rapidly in China , There have been large-scale commercial cases , This is related to the continuous expansion of the scale of China's data center , The increasing power density of a single cabinet . Alibaba 、 Baidu 、 tencent 、 Huawei 、 Zhongke dawning, etc IT Companies have mature application cases of liquid cooling technology . Alibaba Renhe cloud computing data center adopts fully submerged liquid cooling server , The data center has become the first green grade in China 5A Liquid cooled data center .

With the application of liquid cooling technology , In recent years , The research on liquid cooling technology in the industry is gradually deepening .2019 year , Institute of cloud computing and big data, Chinese Academy of information and communications ( hereinafter referred to as “ Cloud Institute of China Academy of communication and communications ”) Jointly published 《 Cold plate liquid cooling 》 and 《 Liquid cooling revolution 》 Two books , The internal and external causes of the development of liquid cooling technology are compared and analyzed , And different liquid cooling technology schemes .

2020 year ,ODCC Open source conference of submerged liquid cooling data center held with Alibaba , Alibaba officially opened the technical specification of submerged liquid cooling data center ;2021 Beginning of the year ,ODCC And UDP（ The United Nations Environment Programme - Partner of Danish University of science and technology ） Copenhagen Energy Efficiency Center 、ITU( international telecommunications union ) Jointly issued a report entitled 《Innovative Data-Centre Cooling Technologies inChina-Liquid Cooling Solution》 Liquid cooling Research Report , The application progress of liquid cooling technology in China is summarized .

2021 year ,ODCC Released 《 Submerged liquid cooled server reliability white paper 》, Its research content is the reliability evaluation method of liquid cooling server after long-term operation ;2022 year 4 month , The five series of industrial standards for liquid cooling led by Yunda Institute of China Academy of information and communications have been officially implemented , It provides effective guidance for the development of data center liquid cooling industry .

With the increasing demand for edge computing power , The application scenario of liquid cooling technology will expand from the cloud to the edge . With the increasing demand for terminal computing power , Traditional cloud computing capabilities are gradually sinking to the edge , The power density and heat dissipation requirements of edge computing servers are also increasing synchronously . In order to reduce the cooling energy consumption of the data center , Improve the overall energy efficiency of the data center , Some edge data centers began to introduce liquid cooled edge servers , Improve the energy efficiency of edge data centers through the application of liquid cooling technology .

5、 ... and 、 The research and development of high-density server is accelerated

The growing scale of data and land 、 The intensive development of power resources promotes the development of high-density data center . For a long time in the past , In order to meet the growing data processing needs of users , The data center mainly provides more computing power by increasing space and expanding the size of racks and servers , But this will also lead to the increase of data center operation cost and the waste of data center space .

Increasingly tense land resources in economically developed areas , This makes it difficult to develop the data center construction mode of increasing computing power by expanding the server scale . Building a high-density data center has become an important measure to improve the computing power level of the data center . High density data center can further improve the computing power per square meter of the data center , It can better meet the computing and storage requirements in the big data scenario .

High density server deployment significantly improves the computing power per unit area of the data center , Reduce the operating cost of the data center . The key to building a high-density data center is to deploy high-density servers . Unlike traditional servers , The power supply and fan of high-density server are designed in a shared way , Multiple server nodes in the same chassis can share power and fans .

On the one hand, it reduces the weight and space occupation of the body , The computing power per unit area of the data center is improved ; On the other hand , It can improve the efficiency of power supply and heat dissipation system , Reduce the operating costs of the data center . As the power density of the data center increases , The average rack power of the data center is also increasing . Data released by research institutions show that , At present, the world 5-9kW/ The rack accounts for the most , The power exceeds 10kW/ The rack of the rack accounts for nearly 30%. The improvement of single rack power is closely related to the large-scale deployment and application of high-density servers . at present ,Intel、IBM、 Huawei 、 wave 、 Dawning and other manufacturers have accelerated the product design and market layout of high-density servers .

2020 Average single frame power of global data center in

6、 ... and 、 Enhanced disaster recovery and backup capabilities

The importance of data is constantly highlighted , The demand for disaster recovery backup drives the rapid growth of the backup all-in-one machine market . It is the most important asset of the enterprise stored in the data center . Under the background of accelerating the process of enterprise digital transformation in China , The disaster recovery and backup capability of data center and enterprise computer room has gradually attracted the attention of the industry . Most of the traditional data protection methods can only protect the data of physical devices , It is difficult to provide unified data protection and backup services for cloud computing and other environments . With the growth of distributed computing application scenarios in Data Center , Traditional data protection and backup methods are increasingly difficult to meet the needs . Efficient 、 comprehensive 、 Integrate 、 Unified 、 Flexible data backup and recovery solutions have become the development direction of the next generation data center data protection solutions .

All in one backup is an important solution for the next generation data center data protection scenario . All in one backup machine can use software 、 disk array 、 Server engine or node to back up data , And closely combined with backup software , Make a list 、 Indexes 、 plan , Realize data transmission .

at present , The global backup all-in-one machine market maintains a high growth trend , The market is in great demand . To cater to the development of the industry ,2021 year 9 month ,ODCC Released 《 All in one backup technology specification 》, The architecture of all-in-one backup machine 、 function 、 Non functional 、 The interface requirements have been comprehensively standardized , Effectively promote the production of all-in-one backup machine 、 Testing and selection .

Overall architecture of backup system including all-in-one backup machine

7、 ... and 、 New storage access protocols are evolving , Deep integration of network storage

NVMe-oF The protocol has become an important end-to-end solution for all flash memory , The integration of storage and network is deepening .NVMe-oF It has become a way to reduce the processing overhead of storage network protocol stack 、 An important technology to achieve high concurrency and low latency . It solves the problem of storage performance loss caused by communication protocol , Further released SSD Performance of , Accelerated the development of flash memory .NVMe-oF Enable hosts and storage devices to use through the network NVMe agreement , It effectively improves the performance of host accessing storage through remote network , It has aroused widespread concern in the industry . at present ,NVMe-oF Support FC The Internet 、IB The Internet 、 Lossless network and standard Ethernet . among , Lossless network is one of the focuses in the industry , Great progress has been made in recent years . Its performance is much better than standard Ethernet , The construction cost is lower than FC The Internet and IB The Internet . therefore , stay NVMe-oF In the process of integration and development with the network , Lossless network will become an important development direction .

8、 ... and 、 The demand for ubiquitous computing power interconnection increases , Computing network innovation accelerates

Computing networks connect ubiquitous computing infrastructure , Operators actively carry out landing practice . Finance 、 traffic 、 education 、 Industry and other industries have a growing demand for ubiquitous computing scenarios , Users need more discounts 、 Higher quality computing services that can be accessed anytime, anywhere . Due to the ubiquitous use of computing power and transaction requirements, computing network has become the focus of the development of next-generation computing infrastructure . In recent years , Operators have accelerated the implementation of computing networks . Computing convergence is China Unicom CUBE-Net3.0 One of the key directions , China Unicom has carried out pilot projects of computing network construction in many places across the country , By calculating the network business chain 、 Network slice 、 Resource awareness realizes computing resource scheduling and awareness , So as to form cloud network security integration services .

China Telecom is in the process of computing network construction , Emphasize with “ cloud ” At the core , Focus on Network 、 Integration of computing power and storage resources , Promote the continuous upgrading of Tianyi cloud , Realize the unified management and scheduling of Tianyi cloud and Tianyi edge nodes . Cloud network integration 、 Cloud edge collaboration is the advantage of Telecom cloud . China Mobile focuses on transforming the underlying computing infrastructure , Build on X86 and ARM General purpose computing network based on architecture , Constantly enrich based on GPU and ASIC Intelligent computing power .

Development trend of data center computing network

The innovation of computing network technology mainly focuses on three aspects : framework 、 Scheduling technology and measurement mode . In terms of computing power architecture , The traditional separation mode of computing and network is gradually evolving towards the integration of computing and network , Innovative development of computing infrastructure integration architecture . In terms of computing power scheduling technology , Computing power scheduling has developed from only supporting network scheduling to the scheduling mode that computing power matches the network , Innovations in computing power scheduling technology continue to emerge .

The technological innovation of computing power scheduling mainly includes computing power cross regional scheduling 、 Multi level scheduling 、 Unified arrangement of computing resources 、 Network protocol 、 Visual monitoring and intelligent operation and maintenance . In terms of computational force measurement , The connotation of computing power and network measurement continues to extend , Computational force measurement has changed from single node measurement to integrated collaborative measurement . With the formation of computational power network , The sources of users' computing power have become more diversified . under these circumstances , The computing power available to users cannot be measured by single or local nodes , Instead, we need to use what the computing network platform can provide at present 、 The computing power to meet the business needs of users . This new integrated collaborative measurement mechanism will re verify the available computing power of users .

Blue ocean brain cooling technology

Blue ocean brain liquid cooling cooling server can be built NVIDIA 4 × A100 / 3090 / P6000 / RTX6000, The liquid cooling plate is fixed on the main heating device of the server , Rely on the liquid flowing through the cold plate to take away the heat to achieve the purpose of heat dissipation . Cold plate liquid cooling solves the heat dissipation of devices with large heat generation in the server , Other radiator parts have to rely on air cooling . Therefore, the server using cold plate liquid cooling is also called gas-liquid dual channel server . The liquid of the cold plate does not contact the cooled device , Heat conduction plate is used in the middle for heat transfer , High safety .

Blue ocean brain has the ability of completely independent research and development and flexible customization , It is the first one engaged in liquid cooling in China GPU One of the manufacturers of servers , And in the unique reinforcement 、 Deep accumulation in product technology fields such as confidentiality and security . Blue ocean brain end-to-end solution , Empower AI、 Cloud computing 、 big data 、5G、 Blockchain 、 Innovation and application of emerging technologies such as yuancosmos , Actively contribute to China's new infrastructure construction 、 Xinchuang 、 Count from east to west 、 The digitization and intelligent transformation and upgrading of social economy provide a solid guarantee of computing power . At the same time, we attach importance to global cooperation and win-win results , Intel 、 Ying Wei Da 、 Seagate 、 Huawei 、 Feiteng and other domestic and foreign industrial chain partners maintain close strategic cooperation , Accelerate the adaptation of product solutions and the expansion of application scenarios , Better serve users in various industries .

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