At the end of March 2016, Intel released a new generation of servers to strong processor series E5-2600 V4 (abbreviation: E5 V4) in the global grand ceremony. Compared to previous generation E5 V3 emphasized software definition data center infrastructure (SDI), a new generation of E5 V4 has strengthened full support for cloud computing environment, Intel said that this is to accelerate "Cloud for ALL ".
It is worth mentioning that in the event of the E5 V4 of the United States, Intel invited the CEO platform of Docker, Coreos and OpenStack, which represents the open source software community. The CEO platform of OpenStack, I invited Baidu, Ali and China Mobile's representatives. On the platform, this Intel starts the mountain dew in the entire layout of the cloud computing market.
Cloud computing "super bowl"
Among the Intel 2015 annual financial report released in January 2016, the Data Center Division has reached $ 16 billion, and the high-speed growth of 11% year-on-year is also achieved, which is the biggest highlight of Intel.
Now, Intel Data Center has 7 largest customers, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft and Tencent, they are called "super 7". "Super 7" covers China's BAT, and the world's largest public clouds, plus the world's largest social media company.
Amit Daryanan, an analyst at RBC Capital, in its research report, "Super 7" is 30% more complex growth rate of Intel in 2012 to 2015, and in 2015 or even Intel The cloud computing 70% of the business sales.
In "Super 7", there is also "Next 50", which is the 50 "small family" customer behind 7 everyone. Dareanani believes that in 2012 to 2015, Intel's "NEXT 50" sales annual complex growth rate reached 40%. There are also analysts believe that possible "NEXT 50" business is actually twice more than a year.
"Super 7" + "Next 50" constitutes Intel's cloud computing "Super Bowl", this big bowl is clearly made to have sufficient influence in cloud computing industries.
Occode open source cloud operating system
In addition to the supercomputer, almost all Internet companies use Linux in a large number of linux. Intel is one of the largest supporters of open source operating system Linux. As a long-term platinum-level member of the Linux Foundation, Intel has made a lot of optimization work from the underlying chip for linux.
The E5 V4, which released this time, is to provide the resource scheduling capability of the underlying chip for open source cloud OS software. This is the newly launched resource allocation technology RDT (Resource Director Technology). RDT is mainly composed of four technologies, named cache monitoring technology, cache allocation technology, memory bandwidth monitoring technology and code / data partition technology. From naming, you can see that RDT provides a more detail of CPU resource scheduling for cloud operation system software, especially cache scheduling, which makes the priority virtual machine to get stable computing resources, ensuring the stability of the cloud computing service.
Dr. Yi Zhuling, chief scientist China Mobile Communications Research Institute, is particularly emphasized, and the Intel Strong Resource Distribution Technology in the E5 V4 product series is a very positive significance for network functional virtualization (NFV), and even the next generation 5G network. This is because mobile communication applications are in a speed of robbing network resources, and the software definition network must solve the problem of resources to compete, this is the greatest significance of RDT.
The cloud operation system in the cloud computing era is OpenStack and later lightweight Docker.
Reproduction DIY mode
By 2016, Linux has already officially entered the 25th anniversary, and OpenStack has just been over the fifth year old birthday in 2015, and Docker is only less than three years. With the experience of Linux ecosystem, for such young OpenStack and Docker, there must be a strong scene behind the scenes to be proven to be ripe this open source cloud software ecology. An open source cloud software ecology is precisely a new generation of DIY mode premise.
What is cloud computing DIY mode? Simply, provide bare metal server products that do not have any software, the customer is installed by customers, and the Cisco High Density Storage Server is such a product. In addition to the bare metal server, the bare metal switch has begun to be popular, which not only brings a significant reduction in cost, but more importantly, it can be included in the data center to the data center, and perform the overall automation management of servers, storage and networks.
The cloud computing DIY mode is based on the software definition infrastructure SDI, which is to peel the software and hardware, and manage universal hardware with universal software. For example, the original Cisco switch is a proprietary software plus proprietary hardware, while the SDN software definition network uses the general X86 server as the underlying hardware, the upper layer software exchanges the function of the switch. Servers, storage, and networks based on Intel processing architecture are such standardization, modular and universal hardware resource pools.
In the Age of PC and PC, DIY mode brings a big prosperity of the entire ecosystem, but also makes Intel earned a lot of money. In the cloud computing era, Intel, of course, also wants to re-establish DIY mode. In addition to open source hardware, the support of open source software ecology has become the key to this strategy.
This is the reason why Intel has given strong support from the OpenStack community. In addition to the earliest access to the OpenStack Foundation, Intel also actively invests OpenStack. In 2015, Intel, the largest code to the OpenStack community, to invest $ 100 million in China, and invest in China's OpenStack Enterprise Kyushu Yun and Haoyun.
In North America, In 2015, Intel and Rackspace cooperated to invest two 1000-nodes of OpenStack clusters. It is free to use it for free. After completion, it will become the world's largest OpenStack development cloud, and both sides will also form the world's largest OpenStack development team. In China, Intel jointly launched China Open Source Cloud Alliance in 2012, which also launched China OpenStack Hackathon in the near future and expanded this activity to 11 countries and regions around the world.
Of course, in many inputs to the cloud, the launch of the strong E5 V4 is still very critical. E5 is currently the main architecture of the global cloud computing infrastructure. For E5 upgrades, it will undoubtedly, it will truly accelerate cloud computing from the bottom floor. In particular, E5 V4 also allows Intel to touch the ultra-large mobile communication company such as China, and the appearance of "Super 8".
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