Tencent Data Center Shanghai Technical Session
On November 24, CDCC's 9th Data Center Standards Summit was held in Shanghai. At the meeting, Tencent Cloud officially released Tencent Zhiwei's new product system, and at the same time took a technical special session to share with the outside world Tencent's data center's exploration and practice in the field of intelligence, and to discuss the future trends of the data center industry in the context of dual-carbon.
Shen Ke, vice president of Tencent Cloud, said in his speech at the summit that driven by the mission of "technology for the good", Tencent data centers have launched a new product system of Zhiwei through technological upgrading and ecological construction, and that the new products released this time are not only applied and verified in Tencent's own business, but also take into account changes in demand from the market. This new product release has not only been applied and verified in Tencent's own business, but also fully considered the changes in demand from the market, and prepared for the future of carbon neutral energy management.
Creating a new product system, covering horizontal scenarios and vertical fields
Tencent Data Center, in conjunction with the current development trend of the digital economy, has launched the fully upgraded Zhiwei new product system, which not only covers automated operation scenarios at different stages, but also makes in-depth efforts to focus on key vertical fields.
In terms of automated operations, Tencent Data Center released the standard version, open-source customized version, and cluster management version of the Wisdom platform. It can meet the automated operation and management needs of data centers at different stages and scales, help customers quickly realize automated operation and management upgrades of data centers according to business scenarios, and help the data center industry and users realize green transformation.
In the key areas, Tencent Zhiwei Dynamic Ring Platform for data center power environment monitoring scenarios, Tencent Foraging Platform for unattended data center scenarios, and Tencent Zhiwei Carbon Management Platform for carbon-neutral scenarios were launched. Among them, Tencent Zhiwei Dynamic Ring Platform has realized the goals of plug-and-play, fast, accurate and stable data, as well as close to business needs by redefining the standards and architecture, and has already been applied in batch in TB Park.
Seeing Intelligence, Product Design and Innovation
The new products released by Tencent are designed and innovated to make intelligence "visible" in practice. Tencent data center smart dimension product expert Shi Lei said, Tencent new generation of smart dimension platform for the business scene of the whole process of the product system closed-loop design, the use of advanced technology and the combination of the scene, at the same time, the establishment of digital metrics system. It not only realizes the intelligent closed loop of important scenes, but also can support the centralized management of large-scale data centers. In the future, it can also provide support for unmanned, green and low-carbon data centers and other important development directions.
Tencent Wisdom's intelligent development path is based on its own continuous pursuit of operational automation on the one hand, but also inseparable from the collaborative efforts of industry partners. Li Xin, a product expert of Tencent Data Center Smart Dimension, said, "Tencent is constantly improving the entire business closed loop in addition to building the corresponding product capabilities, from the initial "recruitment of suppliers" to the current search for "trusted comrades in arms". From the initial "recruitment of suppliers" to the current search for "trusted comrades in arms", Tencent is realizing the empowerment of partners in sales, program design, product delivery, operation, development and other aspects, and forming a matrix type of partner formation.
Support for Intelligence, Technical Practice and Innovation of Tencent Data Center
Adherence to product-oriented practice provides effective support for the intelligent path of Tencent data center. Tencent data center planning and design expert Zeng Xianlong said, "Tencent's productized data center has successively formulated the principles of relatively independent functional partitions, easy replication and expansion, equipment proximity, and common interfaces during the design process; it also continues to push forward the technology down in the process of standardized design, covering details such as cables and even the structural framework of the modules." ? With the continuous advancement of productized data center practice, together with the latest SmartWeaver system, the efficiency of the entire data center design, construction and operation has been effectively improved.
Redefining the standard, Tencent's Zhiwei Dynamic Ring Platform comprehensively maintains the safety and stability of data centers. As a data center power infrastructure and operating environment health monitoring system, the dynamic ring system is related to the safety and stability of the data center. According to Yan Xiaoyun, the person in charge of weak electricity technology in Tencent's data center, "Tencent's Zhiwei dynamic ring platform, through the comprehensive application of Internet of Things technology and hardware interface technology, can realize the second acquisition, second storage, second calculation of the monitoring data, and within 3 seconds, it can upload the underlying alarm to the platform to present, and it has been gradually applied in Tencent's data center park." Tencent's SmartVision Dynamic Ring is currently an industry leader in the control of the number of invalid alarms, as well as in data processing and transmission speed.
Exploring the "self-maintenance model", Tencent's self-maintenance meets the needs of data centers' massive infrastructure operation and maintenance. As Tencent Cloud's businesses advance globally, it has set up more than 100 IDCs around the world, with a total of more than 1 million servers. Tencent data center operations and services manager Zhang Xi said that Tencent has been trying to explore the self-maintenance model since 2017, and by 2021 has initially built a set of self-maintenance system that can meet the needs of massive IDC infrastructure operation and maintenance, realizing intensive service management, high-quality service delivery, and optimization of operation and maintenance costs. In addition, Tencent will continue to strengthen its self-maintenance capabilities and expand the breadth and depth of infrastructure self-maintenance.
With the rapid growth in the volume and delivery of data centers, Tencent has constructed a set of technical guarantee system with Tencent characteristics. Zhang Haitao, Tencent's head of data center operations and technology, said, "Tencent's technical guarantee system can maximize the quality of the entire chain of Tencent's data centers from the system level." ? At the same time, Tencent's data center is also focusing on the future, focusing on the use of wind and light storage and integrated energy, the potential risks of green energy-saving technology to find and respond to potential risks, artificial intelligence and human skills to balance the coordinated development of customized equipment and other areas, in order to build a more technically complex, larger-scale data center technology protection system to actively prepare for the response to the development trend of mega-scalar data centers and customer-customized data centers. development trend.
Focusing on security management, exploring the road to unattended data centers
With the rapid development of the data center industry, unattended data centers will be the new trend. In addition, many server rooms are gradually expanding in size and situated far away from the core cities, which leads to increasingly severe security management challenges faced by data centers.
Huang Xiangqi, an AI algorithm expert from Tencent's Security Platform Department, said that Tencent's data centers have long had a layout on the road to exploring the future of unattended server rooms and have many years of experience in deploying and implementing their own large-scale server rooms. The newly upgraded Tencent Foraging Trace, jointly created by the IDC Platform Department, Security Platform Department and Network Platform Department, can realize real-time tracking of active personnel in the park through machine vision AI technology and Internet of Things (IoT) technology; realize the full electronicization of the park's entry and exit processes through an end-to-end online personnel management system; and realize the full electronicization of the park's entry and exit processes through a self-developed high-performance video distribution service, high-precision IoT positioning technology, and H5 graphics optimization technology specially optimized for data center scenarios. The core technology of H5 graphic rendering engine optimized for data center scenarios continues to move forward in the direction of unattended operation.
Practicing dual-carbon policy, facing the green future of data centers
"Dual-carbon" is a national strategy and an important commitment for China. In his keynote speech, Mr. Liang Jiaqi, Head of Green Energy and Dual Carbon at Tencent Data Center, focused on Tencent's thinking and practice of carbon neutrality in data centers. He said, "Tencent's underlying green technology architecture system accumulated over the years has made a good technical base for zero-carbon data centers. In the future, Tencent has also planned a zero-carbon IDC system, including the centralized configuration of wind power, photovoltaic, energy storage, waste heat recovery, and triple-heat supply inside and outside the park; assisted by green power market-based procurement and green operation, supported by intelligent energy management, and increasing the proportion of investment in carbon sinks in forests and oceans, as well as in carbon-related technologies such as CCUS. By building a sustainable data center, we provide green, low-carbon and sustainable computing power to society."
The key core for data centers to achieve intelligent management of energy and carbon is to automate the construction of the system. Tencent Data Center Smart Dimension product expert Fay Li said, "Tencent Smart Dimension can help data centers achieve standardized automatic collection and digital modeling, and the energy saving and emission reduction programs covered by the new generation of Smart Dimension carbon management platform are also extensive and comprehensive, which can help data centers quickly realize the management of the corresponding data and analyze and make decisions." At the same time, Tencent Data Center also carries out long-term layout planning in the field of carbon management through the formation of expert teams, university cooperation and other means, in the hope of ultimately solving the various problems and challenges that the industry may face in the future in a one-stop manner.
Good things come in pairs, let's swing a double award
In addition, known as the IDC industry "Nobel Prize" known as the "Data Center Science and Technology Achievement Award". "The data center science and technology achievement award is also grandly released in this summit. ***30 technologies, two outstanding contributions to talent and six young scientific and technological talent to obtain the honor. Among them, Tencent data center expert architect Zeng Xianlong, adhering to the concept of innovation, has made outstanding achievements in data center technology, standards and applications, and won the Young Science and Technology Talent Award.
The "Miniature Integrated Data Center Natural Cooling Technology" jointly declared by Tencent and Chongqing Jiaotong University won the first prize of "Data Center Science and Technology Achievement Award". This achievement starts from the cooling technology, and greatly reduces the energy consumption of micro data centers while ensuring the function and safety standards of data centers.
Outlook
Yang Xiaowei, Senior Director of Tencent's Data Center, and Yue Shang, Director of Wisdom Platform R&D Center, attended the conference.
Yang Xiaowei pointed out, "Data center infrastructure construction is currently ushering in a window of rapid development, and in the context of dual-carbon, Tencent Data Center will combine its own rich technological advantages and practical experience in operation and management to help the data center industry move forward quickly in the direction of green intelligence."
Yue Shang said, "Tencent Data Center's product-oriented development strategy and excellent operation system are the power source of Tencent SmartWay's rapid development. Under the great change of dual-carbon, we use the platform of this conference to release a new product system, technology system and ecological system. In the future, we have the determination and ability, together with our ecological partners, to contribute to the development of the data center industry and the achievement of green data centers and smart data centers."