"The next decade is a new golden decade for the computing industry."

On September 18, Hu Houkun, Vice Chairman of Huawei, made a bold prediction at Huawei's fourth full connectivity conference. It also released the computing strategy for the first time, launched a new round of $1.5 billion fertile land plan, and brought together 5 million developers to build an open ecology.

At present, large companies understand and practice the strategy of "ecology>products", and the key to ecology is "popularity" - where people and people, people and organizations interact frequently and importantly, and form a dependency relationship, there is ecology.

In order to usher in the "golden decade" of the computing industry, Huawei has long realized that a truly good architecture requires a pragmatic business strategy and an open ecology. The computing industry is highly dependent on ecology and requires global collaboration. In particular, Huawei Cloud, which uses computing power as a service to provide external services, has an obvious demand for ecology. Therefore, the degree of emphasis and investment is extraordinary.

So how does Huawei make developers an important force in the computing industry? What value has Huawei brought to developers in the four years since the release of the "fertile soil plan 1.0"?

Embrace open source, embrace the world

At the first Huawei Developers Conference in 2015, Huawei released its developer ecological strategy and "fertile land" plan for developers. It plans to invest $1 billion in five years to enable and help global developers to carry out technological and commercial innovation based on Huawei's open and open products and services.

Four years later, especially after the official launch of Huawei Cloud, Huawei has transformed from the traditional impression of ICT hardware infrastructure innovation driven company into a company integrating hardware and software and driven by collaborative innovation.

The technical ability and insight of developers determine the path and height of enterprise collaborative innovation drive. Therefore, Huawei pays more attention to the necessity of its own software and hardware ecological construction. Huawei has found that every field, from CPU to compiler to operating system, needs the support and contribution of developers all over China and even the world.

In particular, for the embrace of the open source community, Huawei has gone from actively contributing to the open source community to donating some product line projects to the Open Source Foundation, to actively opening up strategic core innovations including the full scene AI framework MindSpot, Ark compiler, Hongmeng operating system, Kunpeng hardware reference architecture, etc, All of them show that Huawei has gradually upgraded its efforts to build a developer ecosystem to the height of its corporate strategy.

Among them, Huawei Cloud Kunpeng Ecology has received support from top international open source organizations and manufacturers. Kunpeng Ecology provides a comprehensive and three-dimensional service system from chips, hardware ecology, software ecology, cloud computing, industry solutions, etc. Based on Kunpeng processors, Huawei Cloud launched Kunpeng cloud services and solutions, opening a new and diversified architecture on the cloud.

Around the Kunpeng technology system, Huawei has created a Kunpeng community integrating technical support, knowledge sharing and industrial mutual assistance. The community covers software ecology, product services, solutions, application markets, cooperation plans, Kunpeng forums, learning certification, Kunpeng laboratories and other modules.

In terms of software, Huawei began to develop the server operating system EulerOS in 2010. At present, it has been widely used in communication, storage, cloud and other products, with more than 100000 sets deployed. At the 2019 Huawei HC Conference, Huawei announced the open source server operating system. The name of the open source version is openEuler. Huawei will support partners to release commercial versions based on openEuler, and support mainstream applications and software in various industries to migrate to the operating system based on openEuler.

Because of its independent innovation capability in the whole stack, from chips to servers to cloud platforms, Huawei has a stable position in the forefront of technology. The deep collaboration of software and hardware also enables Huawei cloud services to have extreme performance.

Enjoying technical ability, making outstanding developers

At present, data, algorithms and computing power are the three basic conditions for the development of artificial intelligence. China is relatively strong in data, which is China's competitive advantage in the field of global artificial intelligence. With the great development of the Internet and mobile Internet, coupled with China's demographic dividend, a large amount of rich Internet data has been generated. The next great development of 5G and the Internet of Things will also bring massive machine data. However, in terms of algorithm and computing power, China is still in a backward stage. In particular, the battle of computing power, that is, the battle between chips and hardware, is a battle of cutting-edge technology.

Taking Huawei Cloud Data Center as an example, the server cost has accounted for more than 60%, and computing is becoming the mainstay of the data center. At the same time, the demand for AI computing power has increased more than 10 times every year. It is estimated that by 2025, AI computing power will account for more than 80% of the computing power of the data center. In order to fully explore the value of data, the data center is gradually evolving into a computing center.

Therefore, Pratt&Whitney AI means to overcome the problem of algorithm and computing power, especially the most critical basic scientific research difficulty of computing power. Huawei has started the pre research work of AI chip infrastructure since 2014. After two years of argumentation, it officially launched the research and development of Ascend Ascent AI chip in 2016. In October 2018, HC Conference released AI chip Ascent 310 and Ascent 910, as well as algorithm and hardware system products, and now it has developed into an industrial layout of "one cloud, two wings, and two engines".

One cloud refers to Huawei Cloud, which provides a safe and reliable hybrid cloud through full stack innovation, and becomes a black land of ecological partners, providing the world with inclusive computing power.

The two wings refer to intelligent computing services and intelligent data and storage services. In the field of intelligent computing, it provides diversified computing power of "Kunpeng+Shengteng+x86+GPU" for the end, edge and cloud. In the field of intelligent data and storage, it integrates storage, big data, database and AI, and focuses on the whole life cycle of data to optimize the cost of each bit of data and maximize the value of each bit of data.

Dual engines refer to two basic chip families built around "Kunpeng" and "Shengteng" to build heterogeneous computing architecture.

Based on Shengteng 910 and 310 AI processors, Huawei launched the world's fastest AI training cluster Atlas 900, AI training server Atlas 800, smart station Atlas 500, AI reasoning and training card Atlas 300 and AI acceleration module Atlas 200, completing the layout of Atlas's full range of products, covering the whole scene of cloud, edge and end, and providing strong computing power for training and reasoning. Based on the unified Da Vinci architecture and full scene AI computing framework, it can achieve cloud edge collaboration and accelerate the intelligent reconstruction of the whole industry.

In addition, in order to adapt to the upcoming 5G era, Huawei Cloud brings together Huawei's 5G technical advantages and has the collaborative advantages of "end, edge, management, and cloud" to help developers seize the development opportunities in the 5G era. At the same time, in the 5G era, massive mobile intelligent terminal applications are moving from the end to the cloud. Kunpeng Cloud computing and intelligent terminals are also based on ARM instruction sets, which has the advantage of natural end cloud isomorphism. The "cloud+intelligence+5G" ecological synergy of Huawei Cloud is enough to make developers extraordinary.

Let developers "move" and let developers "move"

How to "please" developers - not with money and treatment, but to really "impress" developers. In other words, the question is who can consciously and strategically establish a set of cultural image that conforms to the developer's awareness both externally and internally.

Internally, in order to improve the quality of software engineering, Huawei vigorously promotes the construction of trusted software capability through the company's 2019 No. 1 document ("Comprehensively Improving Software Engineering Capability and Practice, Creating Credible High Quality Products"), unifying ideas, internal training and assessment, tool chain building and other ways.

Externally, Huawei Cloud has created a new developer activity brand "DevRun" this year, focusing on introducing and preaching Huawei Cloud's latest products, technological innovations and solutions to developers, covering from AI, 5G, IoT, cloud native to cutting-edge quantum computing, as well as a wealth of hands-on practice links, which are guided by Huawei Cloud experts to make developers "excited" by technology, They can also continue to learn and practice on the spot and after the activity, which is called "physical movement". This full process, highly immersive technology preaching activity has been held more than 10 times nationwide, attracting more than 5000 developers.

At the same time, Huawei Cloud has made a strong appearance at many top technology summits in the industry, which is refreshing. For example, Huawei Cloud made its first large-scale appearance at this year's QCon Beijing Station, changing its low profile, and held a special session for technology sharing, which made many senior developers present. At this year's ArchSummit Shenzhen Station, Zhang Shunmao, senior vice president of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and CTO of Cloud&AI products and services, also appeared in the Keynote segment, and made a speech themed "Meeting the Turning Point, Embracing the New Computing Architecture" to promote the Kunpeng ecosystem, demonstrating Huawei Cloud's unprecedented emphasis on the construction of the developer ecosystem.

On the online side, Huawei Cloud is fully committed to technical preaching. Through technical content, online sharing classes, online training camps and other forms, Huawei Cloud is more proactive in showing its thinking on technical trends and sharing its own practices. Especially in cloud native, AI, database and other fields, Huawei Cloud's technical preaching output has attracted the attention of more than one million professionals.

Huawei Cloud has opened developer communities and cloud schools on its official website to help developers grow. At the same time, Huawei Cloud has also broken down the technologies and skills that developers focus on through micro authentication and other means. It has improved the ability of developers with de graining authentication products. At present, tens of thousands of people have benefited from Huawei Cloud's micro authentication system.

In addition, Huawei has developed AI courses with universities and scientific research institutions, helped publish books and textbooks, and supported talent cultivation and scientific research exploration; It also helps universities and scientific research institutions to build AI colleges and research institutes, assist in building artificial intelligence laboratories, and assist in participating in AI related production, learning and education projects of the Ministry of Education. At the same time, assist in training AI teachers, and students from universities and scientific research institutions can obtain Huawei AI certificate through assessment. At the HC conference, Huawei Cloud also officially released the first textbook of the Shengteng series, "Shengteng AI Processor Architecture and Programming", to help universities and scientific research institutions study the underlying computing.

Upgrade of "fertile land", add fresh blood to the black land

In 2018, Huawei Cloud actively promoted the developer ecology, launched the Huawei Cloud fertile land AI developer enabling plan, enabling developers to become the "black land" of cloud ecology. Today, Huawei has 1.3 million registered developers, and more than 13000 enterprise developer partners are innovating products and solutions on Huawei's black land to create value for customers.

In the 2019 Huawei HC Conference, the fertile soil plan 2.0 was officially released. Huawei Cloud Land 2.0 plans to continue to increase its weight. It will invest 1.5 billion dollars in the next five years to build a developer ecosystem, and continue to sublimate under the guidance of the LEADS concept (Lab as Service, End to End, Agile, Dedicated, Social). It will optimize Huawei's processes, communities, resource allocation, etc. for the understanding, learning, construction, and listing of developers' development history, To enable developers to grow more efficiently on Huawei's platform, Huawei will also set up LGF (Learning and Growth Fund)/PDF (Product Development Fund)/MDF (Market Development Fund) funds around three stages of developers' learning, product construction and product listing.

In addition, the fertile ground plan 2.0 will also divide developers into four categories: university research institutions, individual developers, start-ups, and enterprise developers. Huawei will have more intimate enabling and support plans for each type of developer. For example, schools will enjoy free study papers, more preferential equipment support, and provide Kunpeng development prototype, Shengteng training card, cloud service voucher OpenLab, training and certification services, developer competitions, ISV application migration technical support, Huawei FAE development support services, Huawei certification, ISV marketing activities and sample site support and other support resources.

Today, intelligence has become the key to changing the core competitiveness of products in various industries. Whoever first uses AI technology can lead the direction of the next generation of industries and build long-term competitiveness for the future. There are still many opportunities for developers. Here in Huawei, developers can have more space to exert themselves and create more innovative highlights in business scenarios. This may be the most favorable evidence for Huawei to practice the concept of "getting developers to win the world".

As the general manager of Huawei Cloud EI Service Product Department said, "Huawei will connect customers and partner resources for developers through various means, such as developer salons, industry matchmaking meetings, Huawei cloud markets, industrial innovation centers, fertile fields, marketing activities, and strive to build a diversified, dynamic, symbiotic and prosperous life The state network enables every developer who joins Huawei's ecological platform to not only gain technical energy and realize innovation, but also find friends and business opportunities, making dreams impossible and possible! "