What is artificial intelligence infrastructure?

Artificial intelligence may bring great changes to human society, which has become a kind of knowledge. At the beginning of June this year, the state issued the "Three-year Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence in internet plus", proposing nine major projects, and artificial intelligence became a national strategy. Changping Town IT Training believes that as the backbone of technological change, Baidu is fully implementing the artificial intelligence strategy to accelerate the landing of technology in various industries and benefit the society.

Taking the automobile industry as an example, Wang Jin first proposed and explained the concept of "Software Defined Vehicle (SDV)". He believes that the value of cars in the future will mainly depend on the software technology with artificial intelligence as the core. In the development of artificial intelligence, excellent algorithms, massive data and super computing are trinity, which means that Baidu's implementation of artificial intelligence strategy will definitely bring great challenges to the computing, storage and operating cost control capabilities of data centers.

According to Liu Chao, senior director of Baidu's system department, the scale of Baidu's server clusters has increased by nearly 50 times in the past decade, forming three clusters in North China, East China and South China, and initially forming a global network architecture. In basic hardware, system software, high-performance computing, refrigeration, power supply and other aspects, Baidu's technological innovation has led the development trend of the data center industry.

For example, the "Scorpio Project" led by Baidu, the first open source hardware project in China, has launched two versions of technical specifications and six industry standards, and the whole industry has accumulated more than 300,000 nodes; In terms of operational efficiency, in 2023, the PUE of Baidu's self-built data center reached 1.22, ranking first in China and reaching the global leading level.

At the meeting, Liu Chao also released Baidu's latest independent research and development achievement-X-MangPuBox, which is the first server in the world that supports 16 block and supports the maximum expansion to 64 GPUs, and will provide powerful computing power for machine learning.

Liu Chao pointed out that coping with massive data storage and processing, supercomputing ability supporting hundreds of billions of samples and trillions of parameters, efficient network facilities and XDN layout of data center will be the development direction of Baidu data center in the future, thus helping the development of artificial intelligence technology and meeting the needs of various applications.

The implementation of Baidu's artificial intelligence strategy also needs the support of "cloud+end". Liu Wei, general manager of Baidu Open Cloud, introduced Baidu Open Cloud and big data and artificial intelligence on the cloud. Liu Wei said that at present, on the basis of big data and artificial intelligence technology, Baidu is using artificial intelligence to realize various rich applications.

As a high-performance computing platform with dozens of products, over 100 million users and over one million corporate customers, Baidu Open Cloud is an intelligent cloud computing service platform that Baidu is committed to building by opening its core resources to the outside world, providing all-round cloud products that meet the multi-level needs of various industries. With Baidu's open cloud as the cornerstone, all sectors of society can make full use of Baidu's cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence technical capabilities to achieve value win-win and commercial success.