Unlocking the value of data elements: 2024 Data Infrastructure Technology Summit held in Chengdu

The 2024 Data Infrastructure Technology Summit, hosted by DOIT Media, was grandly held at the beautiful Shiwai Taoyuan Hotel in Chengdu, the land of abundance, on April 24, 2024.

The summit is themed "Unleashing the Value of Data Elements," focusing on the synergy of computing power and storage power, and discussing multidimensional hot topics such as technical innovation in intelligent computing, distributed storage technology and applications. Dozens of data scientists, IT experts, leading enterprises, and industry user representatives are invited to participate in a main forum and two special forums, engaging with over 500 on-site representatives and more than 50,000 online guests to jointly explore the maximization of data value and shape the future of enterprises and society.

The development of technology is the key to driving the development of data elements and new productivity. The "Three-Year Action Plan for Data Elements (2024-2026)" mentions that "building a digital economy with data as the key element is an inevitable requirement for promoting high-quality development," further highlighting the value and significance of data elements.

In recent years, Chengdu has successively introduced top-level plans such as the "Chengdu Implementation Plan for Promoting the Development of the Digital Economy" and the "Opinions on Creating a New Ecological Development and Cultivating New Momentum for the New Economy," proposing that by 2025, the scale of the city's artificial intelligence industry should exceed 150 billion yuan, the number of innovative artificial intelligence application scenarios should reach over 100, and the city should become the leading hub for the development of the artificial intelligence industry at the national level.

Data shows that in 2022, the scale of Chengdu's artificial intelligence industry reached 61.6 billion yuan, ranking sixth in the country in terms of comprehensive industrial strength and first in terms of industry growth rate. In the first half of 2023, the scale of Chengdu's big data industry reached 57.302 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 32.16%; the scale of the artificial intelligence industry reached 42.4 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 36.9%. Chengdu is empowering its development with new momentum by driving the "digital industrialization" and "industrial digitalization" through the development of a new engine for the digital economy.

The Chengdu government work report for this year mentioned the need to strengthen the core industries of the digital economy and vigorously cultivate national-level cross-industry and cross-domain industrial internet platforms. As the second city in the country to operate a supercomputing and intelligent computing dual center, following Shanghai, and one of the eight national hubs for integrated computing power networks, Chengdu provides important information infrastructure support for the stable development of the artificial intelligence industry and the digital economy. The Chengdu Intelligent Computing Center has also been included in the national artificial intelligence computing power strategic system.

The Chengdu Intelligent Computing Center covers three major platforms: the artificial intelligence computing power platform, the urban intelligent brain platform, and the scientific research and innovation platform. After the first phase of the project goes online, the computing power will reach 300P FLOPS@FP16. Centered around Ascend and the artificial intelligence industry, it aims to create an innovative driving force, build an artificial intelligence industry ecosystem, and promote the rapid development of the digital economy.

Liao Xian, the Director of Smart City Operations at Chengdu Smart City Operation Center, pointed out in the opening report titled "Chengdu Smart City Operation Center: The Smart Engine for Urban Governance and Innovation" that the center not only provides computing power, but also offers a "construction team" to ensure the construction process of the smart Rongcheng High-tech Zone with the help of an excellent team and a large number of intelligent tools such as robots and AIGC.

Data storage vendors: Leading technology empowers industry practices

As the core carrier of data elements, the importance of data storage is self-evident.

The summit received support from leading industry enterprises such as Inspur Information, Lenovo Lingtu, Greenplum Technology, Solidigm, Yanrong, Baidu Data, Daoyunxing, Huacun Zhigu, HIPPSTOR, and Western Digital.

At the main venue in the morning, guests including Weng Yun, Director of Application Engineering Department of Solidigm Asia Pacific, Liu Ximeng, General Manager of Cloud Storage Products Department of Inspur Data, Chen Hong, Chief Technology Officer of Lenovo Lingtu, Guo Hongxing, Chief Architect of Huawei Data Lake Solution, and Han Hui, Deputy General Manager of Green Computing Technology, shared and interpreted the latest technological achievements in data collection, storage, processing, analysis, and application, and looked forward to the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and data infrastructure, as well as future development trends in the era of digital economy.

How to better utilize data and explore its value? "Data bank" is an effective strategy.

The data bank refers to a data center built on a high-speed distributed storage network, which aggregates a large number of different types of storage devices in the network through application software to work together, forming a secure data storage and access system. Professor Chen Liangyin, Vice President of the Industrial Internet Research Institute of Sichuan University, explained in his speech how the data bank becomes a solution for the asset management and controllable sharing of big data from multiple dimensions such as data asset management, data bank model, key technologies for data sharing, and applications of data bank.

At the technical innovation forum of the Smart Computing Center held in the afternoon, Vice President and Co-founder Li Junhong of Yanrong Technology, Architect Sun Lingchuan of the Inspur distributed storage product line, Director Wen Tao of Tencent Cloud Storage Solutions, Vice General Manager Wu Hong of Baud Computing AI BU, Vice President and Co-founder of Parallel Technology, and General Manager of AI Cloud Business Unit Zhao Hongbing, and Senior Product Director Hou Feibing of Juzhen Cloud DataCanvas, respectively shared their insights on topics such as the construction ideas of the storage system of the Smart Computing Center, storage technology trends and evolution in the AI era, innovation in the data intelligence ecosystem, driving the infinite future with AI computing, the current situation of large model computing power, and the intelligent computing operating system in the new AI era, discussing strategies to accelerate the innovation and implementation of enterprise AI applications.

At another forum on distributed storage technology and applications held in the afternoon, Chief Storage Solution Architect Gao Wei of Solidigm, General Manager Jiang Leguo of the Inspur distributed storage product line, Product Manager He Chuan of Lenovo Lingtuo, Senior Technical Expert Wang Taiping of Alibaba Cloud, and the founder of "High-End Storage Knowledge" Liang Sheng (Xigua Brother) and other experts introduced topics such as the development of distributed storage technology, artificial intelligence innovation, data storage management and applications for the AGI era, and the market trends of distributed all-flash, gaining insights into the critical role of distributed storage in handling the increasingly growing data volume and promoting the progress and industry practices of distributed storage.

Xingyun Zhilian (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pangang) Chief Engineer Li Jianyu, combined with the independent intellectual property rights of HaiXing XYZLink, shared the experience of empowering the construction of "Digital Pangang" through the industrial Internet platform, and how digital infrastructure has become a strong support for digital transformation.

Storage and computation integration: "Computing Industry Database" makes its debut for the first time

AIGC becomes the annual theme word, and the outbreak of the computing industry is just around the corner. In this trend, what is the current situation of the industry pattern and ecological map? What are the forces and mainstays? What opportunities and challenges are they facing?

Following the release of Data Cloud Map and Storage Chip Map, the "Computing Industry Database" under the new media "Computing Leopard" of DOIT Media made its debut at this summit for the first time. From the perspective of industry status, market position, and segmented track, it comprehensively depicts the panoramic view of the computing industry through the entire industry chain and data sharing, aiming to create a leading, professional, and authoritative enterprise-level computing platform, and to contribute a powerful tool for free to society, providing AI computing enterprise information query.

It is reported that the "Computing Power Industry Database" has three highlights: first, it provides fast real-time data retrieval; second, it is comprehensive, extracting over 20 years of industry experience and opinions from industry experts such as the DOIT Research Institute, generating eight subfields within three major categories of the computing power industry; third, it is inclusive, covering over 200 companies and facilitating data sharing and vertical communication. The "Computing Power Industry Database" will continue to enrich its content with the establishment of a national computing power center network, information on major products of enterprises, latest financing situations, and vertical community communication areas, providing inspiration to the industry and witnessing the development of the industry together.

Cutting-edge product technology and leading achievements were showcased at the event.

At the event, several industry-leading companies such as Baidu Data, Daoyunxing, Huacun Zhigu, HIPPSTOR, Solidigm, Green Computing Technology, Yanrong, and Western Data presented their latest research findings and technical solutions in the field of data infrastructure, covering various aspects including green data center construction, storage architecture optimization, data security protection, and intelligent operation and maintenance.

These technological innovations meet the urgent market demand for efficient, safe, green, and intelligent data infrastructure, and also herald a new chapter in China's cultivation of data elements market and construction of the data industry chain.

Grasping the pulse of the intelligent computing era, driving the stable development of the digital economy.

Currently, generative AI technology is flourishing globally, and large-scale model training has become an important direction for enterprises to explore AI applications. DOIT Media is also actively embracing AI technology. Its intelligent marketing system, eHub Baiyi Cloud, has undergone a major upgrade and officially launched the AI event assistant, which is the first to be applied online at today's summit, bringing a brand-new intelligent conference experience to a wide range of users.

For many years, DOIT Media has been committed to the popularization and application of digital technology, joining hands with all sectors in an open attitude, pragmatic spirit, and innovative measures to promote the rapid development of China's data infrastructure construction, truly making data a new engine to drive high-quality economic and social development.

The data infrastructure technology summit in 2024 undoubtedly leaves a colorful mark in the development of China's data industry. It is like a banner, leading all sectors into a new era of deepening the value of data, and solidly advancing towards the construction of a more perfect, efficient, and sustainable data ecosystem.