On the 16th, the national development and Reform Commission and other departments agreed to start the construction of national hub nodes of the national integrated computing network in the Great Bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Chengdu and Chongqing, the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, which means that all eight national hub nodes of the computing network have been laid out, which also marks the official start of the “counting from the east to the west” project.
Dawan District hub will set up a data center cluster in Shaoguan
The so-called “East number West calculation”, “number” refers to data, “calculation” refers to computational power. Generally speaking, “that is to transmit the data from the east to the West for calculation and processing. For the national computing power” Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Dawan District hub, the national development and Reform Commission said that Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Dawan District hub should give full play to its regional advantages in market, technology, talents and capital, develop high-density, energy-efficient and low-carbon data center clusters, and improve the quality of data supply, Optimize the Internet between the East and the West and the direct network between hub nodes, optimize the supply structure of the data center through cloud network collaboration and cloud edge collaboration, expand the space for computing power growth, and realize the coordination and sustainability of large-scale computing power deployment and land, energy, water, electricity and other resources.
It is worth noting that the most interesting data center cluster of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan District hub will be set up in Shaoguan. The boundary of the starting area is Shaoguan high tech Zone. Around Shaoguan Data Center cluster, we will pay close attention to optimizing the layout of computing power, undertake the real-time computing needs of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, and guide the migration of warm and cold business to the West, Build a real-time computing power center radiating South China and even the whole country.
In terms of the structure of Shaoguan Data Center cluster construction, the national development and Reform Commission clearly requires that the construction should meet the development requirements of the new data center, start the construction of the starting area as soon as possible, and gradually implement key construction projects. In principle, the main body of the project construction is the backbone enterprises in the industries related to the data center, and support the development of large and super large data centers, The construction content will cover the construction of green and low-carbon data center, the improvement of network service quality, efficient scheduling of computing power, the improvement of security capability, etc.
Why build eight hub nodes?
Nanfang Daily reporter noted that in addition to the previously approved four national hub nodes in Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia, the national development and Reform Commission and other departments approved the construction of four national hub nodes this time. In addition to the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Dawan District hub, Chengdu Chongqing hub plans to set up Tianfu Data Center cluster and Chongqing Data Center cluster; The Yangtze River Delta hub plans to set up the data center cluster of the Yangtze River Delta ecological green integrated development demonstration area and the Wuhu Data Center cluster; Beijing Tianjin Hebei hub plans to set up Zhangjiakou Data Center cluster. Why is it so large?
In this regard, the national development and Reform Commission analyzed that in recent years, with the accelerated progress of digital transformation and upgrading of various industries, especially the rapid popularization and application of new technologies such as 5g, artificial intelligence and the Internet of things, the total amount of data in the whole society has increased explosively, and the demand for data storage, calculation, transmission and application has increased significantly. Therefore, the national hub node of the national integrated computing network, as the backbone node of China’s computing network, accelerating the construction has become a top priority.
In addition, traditionally, China’s communication network is mainly built around the degree of population aggregation, and the network nodes are generally concentrated in first tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The data center is highly dependent on the network, and then focuses on urban deployment. In recent years, with the rapid development of data center scale, higher requirements are put forward for energy, land, climate and other conditions. Some eastern regions have great application demand, but energy consumption indicators are tight, power costs are high, and it is difficult and limited to develop data centers on a large scale; Some western regions are rich in renewable energy and have a suitable climate, but there are bottlenecks such as small network bandwidth and high cost of inter provincial data transmission, which can not effectively meet the needs of the East. Therefore, there is an urgent need to increase the top-level design of the national computing network, change the network-centered development model as soon as possible, and reconstruct the network pattern around the data center.
To this end, China has arranged eight national hub nodes of the computing power network to build data center clusters in areas rich in renewable resources and suitable climate, geology and other conditions, so as to realize the green, intensive and efficient development of data centers. Through the construction of national hub nodes, further plan the construction layout of data centers, guide the appropriate agglomeration of large-scale data centers, and form data center clusters. Within the cluster, adjust and optimize the network structure and strengthen the supporting guarantee of water, electricity and energy consumption indicators. Between clusters, establish a direct network of high-speed data centers, implement the project of “counting from east to west”, support large-scale computing power scheduling, and build a new computing power network pattern guided by data flow.
the construction of computing network will meet six challenges
Sun Limei, senior engineer of China Mobile Communication Group Design Institute Co., Ltd., said that the “east to West computing” project, based on the high-speed intelligent communication network, realizes the balanced layout of computing power between East and West in China and optimizes the cost of computing power, which is the capability base for the rapid development of digital economy in China’s 14th five year plan.
“The national hub nodes of the eight computing power networks will accelerate the implementation of the computing power network. Computing power depends on electricity, so the regional layout of computing power centers with abundant electricity will become the infrastructure construction promoted at the national level.” Dr.Peng Telecom&Media Group Co.Ltd(600804) Wu Shaoyan, chief strategy officer and director of the strategic decision-making advisory committee, believes that.
Chang Jiang, executive vice president of Nokia bell, introduced that with the in-depth development of digital economy and intelligent society, we will enter the era of ubiquitous computing power. Intelligent data has become the core production factor, and computing power will become the unified resource language of this era. Computing network will constitute the key cornerstone of digital intelligence transformation. “Computing power network is a new information infrastructure based on cloud network integration, with computing power supply as the core, deeply integrating the continuous evolution of new network technology, and focusing on the supply of resources and services built by computing power.”
In Chang Jiang’s view, the current development of computing network needs to solve six problems: first, the current cloud and network remain relatively independent, which brings challenges to the integration of cloud network resources; Second, computing resources and computing business need to take into account both performance and cost; Third, there are differences between multi clouds, and it is difficult to schedule and control cross cloud integrated resources; Fourth, computing power resources and perception are still in the exploratory stage, lacking the support of technical standard system; Fifth, the model of computing power trading and computing power service still needs to be verified; Sixth, as a major industrial strategic development direction facing the future, computational power network needs extensive industrial cooperation.
