Huawei AI cluster computing power
recently, Huawei announced another important news at the full connection conference, that is, the atlas 900, Huawei's AI training cluster, will be released. This atlas 900 is composed of thousands of shengteng 910 AI processors. therefore, Atlas 900 is also known as the world's fastest AI training cluster. So, which scenarios are suitable for such a good AI training cluster
Huawei atlas 900 with super computing power can be used in such a major field as science and technology, which has to make people look at Huawei with new eyes. because so far, no company has been able to independently develop such a powerful AI training cluster, so we all look forward to Huawei bringing us more surprises
on the afternoon of August 23, 2019, Huawei's Shenzhen headquarters released shengteng 910, the most powerful a processor, and launched a full scene AI computing framework Xu Zhijun, chairman of wheel of Huawei, said, Huawei has completed the construction of AI solutions for the whole station and scene, and will launch more AI processors in the future to provide more abundant, more economical and more suitable AI computing power but it gave him a good excuse. He kept shouting that the wolf was coming, the wolf was coming<
It is reported that a tlas 900 is composed of thousands of ascend processors, which can improve AI training efficiency by hundreds of thousands of times. Suppose a training takes 5 months, while using atlas 900 only takes tens of seconds! In the resnet-50 model training, the gold standard of AI computing ability, Atlas 900 completed the training in 59.8 seconds, 10 seconds faster than the original world record . For example, it's equivalent to the sprint champion finishing at the end of the race, drinking a bottle of water and waiting for the second place
In addition, Atlas 90 can also play an important role in some specific fields, such as autonomous driving, weather forecasting, oil exploration and so on. In fact, AI intelligent technology has been combined with all walks of life for a long time, and has developed like a raging firein July this year, the world's first drug completely developed by artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the human trial stage. The original development of a vaccine required thousands of people from pharmaceutical companies to work continuously for five years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. With the help of AI technology, a small scientific research team only developed it in about two years. Ai not only simplifies the process of vaccine development, greatly reces the cost, but also improves the effectiveness of the vaccine
On September 18, the fourth Huawei full connectivity Conference opened in Shanghai. Huawei released its computing strategy for the first time, based on architecture innovation, investment in full scene processor family, business strategy of doing something but not doing something, and construction of an open ecology. Thus, a new era of navigation in the computing instry began. At the same time, Huawei launched the world's fastest AI training cluster atlas 900, to accelerate the intelligent process of scientific research and business innovation
in the era of computing intelligence, we believe that there are three important characteristics
the first feature requires strong computing power statistical calculation itself is a kind of violent calculation, which highly depends on computational power. For example, in order to let the computer know a cat, it needs millions of pictures of training, which consumes a lot of computing power. For more complex scenarios such as autonomous driving, astronomical exploration and weather forecasting, the demand for computing power will be greater
the second feature is that computing and intelligence will be everywhere, not just on the central side. From violent computing at the center node to Professional Computing at the edge, such as gene sequencing, and personalized computing at the end, such as headphones and mobile phones, constitute the computing form of the future intelligent era
the third feature is the need for efficient collaboration between end edge clouds the center side is responsible for the calculation of the general model, providing collaborative support for the personalized calculation of the end side and the specialized calculation of the edge side
With the promotion of policies and the attention of capital, the artificial intelligence instry will continue to develop rapidly. In 2020, the scale of China's artificial intelligence core instry will exceed 150 billion yuan
at present, the commercialization of artificial intelligence is mainly based on computer vision, intelligent voice, natural language processing and other technologies, which are widely used, involving intelligent medical, intelligent driving, intelligent home and other scenes
in 2018, a total of 131.1 billion yuan was raised in China's artificial intelligence field, with a growth rate of more than 100%. Investors are optimistic about the development prospect of the artificial intelligence instry, and capital will help the instry develop better
in the field of combination of artificial intelligence and travel, the research and development of path planning, network car hailing, traffic management, automatic driving and other technologies have solved the pain points of traditional travel inconvenience. Among them, Shenlan technology has been deeply engaged in intelligent transportation, intelligent environment, intelligent city and other subdivided fields, and has realized the landing of artificial intelligence procts. Its Shenlan technology panda intelligent bus has been put into trial operation in Guangzhou, Tianjin and other domestic cities. The combination of artificial intelligence with security, medical, retail and other instries has solved certain instry pain points, and machine learning algorithm, deep learning and NLP are used to promote the development of the instry
with the coming of 5g business era, the connection efficiency of artificial intelligence technology will be further improved, and deep learning, data mining, automatic programming and other fields will be realized in more application fields
China's artificial intelligence develops rapidly
China's artificial intelligence technology starts late, but develops rapidly. At present, it has been in the leading position in the world in the number of patents and enterprises. From 2013 to 2018, a total of 305000 papers were published in the field of artificial intelligence, of which 74000 papers were published in China and 52000 papers were published in the United States. In terms of quantity proportion, the number of AI papers in China accounted for 27.7% of the world in 2017. At present, the cooperation between China and the United States in artificial intelligence research papers is the largest scale and the center of the global artificial intelligence cooperation network. The cooperation between China and the United States has a profound impact on the development of global artificial intelligence
China's AI instry will continue to be hot in the future
AI media consulting analysts believe that at present, the scale of China's AI instry is still growing, at the same time, the state is constantly introcing various AI instry support policies, and the capital market's investment enthusiasm for the instry remains unchanged, Continuous breakthroughs in technology are the core driving force of instrial growth
the trend of AI instry in the future depends on the progress of algorithm. As the technological breakthrough of algorithm determines the upper limit of AI, the gap of AI enterprises in the future lies in the technological breakthrough of algorithm. Whoever can succeed in algorithm first will win the favor of capital market, and the instrial landing will be further accelerated. In terms of algorithm, there are excellent models such as deep learning and neural network. However, in terms of the overall development of domestic artificial intelligence algorithm, although engineering algorithm has made a breakthrough, the level of algorithm based on cognitive level needs to be improved, which is also the core field of future competition
although the algorithm determines the upper limit of artificial intelligence, the current algorithm may be difficult to break through in a short time, so computing power is also a key direction of the competition of artificial intelligence enterprises at present. With the current computing power level, the main commercial artificial intelligence technologies are computer vision, intelligent voice, etc. in the future, if the computing power further breaks through, including the improvement of computing power The rection of proction cost will further deepen the instrialization of artificial intelligence technology
the above content is extracted from the latest AI media report - Research Report on China's AI instry in the first half of 2019 released by AI media consulting