ZTE Guo Shubo: Computing power is the second curve of enterprise growth Server vision is the top three in China
"Computing power is the most important productivity in the future" Guo Shubo, vice president of ZTE and general manager of server and storage products, said in an interview that human productivity has undergone the transformation of manpower - animal power - steam power - electricity. Now, with the rapid development of the digital economy, the demand for computing power is growing rapidly, and the value of computing power is becoming increasingly prominent.
ZTE believes that computing power is an opportunity in the future. Since 2021, it has listed server storage as an important product of the "second curve" strategy, and has achieved good results in many industries, with increasingly rich products. On January 12, ZTE officially launched a new generation of G5 series servers, moving forward with the latest CPU products and industry needs, to provide stable and reliable computing infrastructure for the development of the digital economy.
Product innovation and high-quality synchronization, more powerful computing support
As one of the "early intervention" manufacturers of Intel and major processor manufacturers, ZTE's product iteration and CPU keep synchronized. On the second day of this Intel new product release, ZTE synchronously released a new product based on the fourth generation Intel ® xeon ® G5 series servers with scalable processors are R5200 G5 high-density servers R5300G5 universal server for all scenarios R5500 G5 mass storage server R6500G5 heterogeneous computing server and R8500 G5 high-performance server.
Five new G5 series servers all use the latest Intel ® xeon ® The fourth generation expandable processor, with built-in acceleration engine, can effectively improve application performance. Dual channel supports up to 120 cores, providing powerful computing support; High memory bandwidth design, providing 32 DDR5 memory sockets, with a maximum speed of 4800MT/s, bandwidth performance improved by 50%, and support for Intel ® Aoteng ™ Persistent memory 300 series (Crow Pass); The new PCIe 5.0, IO bandwidth is increased by 150%, providing powerful hardware acceleration capability.
The new G5 series servers have multiple optimizations in terms of cooling design, power module, motherboard layout, etc. The available expansion capability is also commendable. Guo Shubo said, "G5 series servers are in line with the mainstream manufacturers in the industry in terms of hardware specifications, and individual drawers are in the lead in terms of scalability, and some of the expansion capabilities that affect operation and maintenance are more available." Taking R5300 G5 as an example, it provides 41 2.5 "drawers or 20 3.5" drawers+4 2.5 "drawers at most, provides high-speed I/O interfaces, and is based on hardware modularization and software platform design, Match the differentiated requirements of different application scenarios through on-demand configuration.
With the development of digital economy, the performance of new server products is becoming stronger and stronger, and the quality and reliability of products are also increasingly valued.
"As one of the earliest server R&D manufacturers in China, ZTE has always used strict design, standards and specifications throughout the whole process of product R&D, manufacturing and testing." Guo Shubo pointed out that in the R&D process, ZTE is the only server manufacturer with independent design and factory production, realizing independent research and development of key components such as mainboards/BIOS/BMCs/network cards, It can provide Intel platform AMD platform, Haiguang platform and other computing platforms; In the manufacturing sector, ZTE built the server and storage product production center into an intelligent manufacturing base, using 5G, robots AI、 Digital twin and other technologies have realized the fully automated production line, effectively reducing the failure and error rate; In the testing phase, all ZTE products must pass 10000+rigorous tests before leaving the factory, and each product must pass a 24-hour high-temperature aging test to ensure that all equipment is stable and reliable.
These advantages and strict standards undoubtedly provide a strong guarantee for the high quality and reliability of new G5 series servers.
Business vision: top five globally and top three domestically
Taking Computational Power as the strategic foresight of the quadratic curve, constantly innovating iterative products, and high standard R&D, production and testing have enabled ZTE to achieve vigorous development in the field of server storage, and the product market scale has grown rapidly, making it the fastest growing server manufacturer in China in recent three years.
Guo Shubo introduced that ZTE server storage products have now served 40+countries and regions around the world, providing strong support for the digital transformation of many industries.
"In the telecommunications industry, ZTE ranked first in terms of server shipments; in the Internet industry, server storage scale was applied to leading enterprises and became the mainstream supplier; in the financial industry, its products comprehensively covered large state-owned banks, joint-stock banks, urban commercial banks, rural credit cooperatives, insurance, securities and other fields, and were recognized by the financial industry, which is known for its severity; In the power industry, it has become the mainstream supplier of the leading power grid company in China, with a market share of 15%... "
IDC statistics show that in the third quarter of 2022, ZTE's shipment volume has entered the top five in China.
For ZTE, which positions itself as the "road builder of the digital economy", this number is obviously not the ultimate goal. Guo Shubo said in the interview that the business vision of server storage is "top five globally and top three domestically".
In the context of the digital economy, the server, as the underlying computing power support, needs to develop in step with the needs of thousands of industries, so as to better support the technological innovation and implementation of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the metauniverse and other technologies, and provide the digital economy with diversified computing power to meet the new needs of green, security, high-performance and so on.
The new G5 series servers are just an important step forward for ZTE to realize its vision, and also a new generation of computing infrastructure innovatively developed based on future needs.
Guo Shubo, The new G5 series servers have the characteristics of high-density computing power, flexible expansion, heterogeneous computing power, massive storage, stability and reliability, which will provide more powerful computing power support for the development of the digital economy.
For example, ZTE has released R6500G5 heterogeneous computing server with 10~20 heterogeneous computing intelligent acceleration engines. It flexibly schedules various heterogeneous computing resources according to different application scenarios to achieve the best combination of computing power, such as CPU+GPU CPU+GPU+DPU， Meet the requirements of diversified computing scenarios such as AI/supercomputing.
The R5300 G5 customized scene server can be designed differently according to different needs of customers, and customized to meet different application scenarios of customers.
China's "dual carbon" strategy has been continuously promoted, and the problem of high energy consumption of computing power has been increasingly emphasized. Green energy conservation has become the inevitable direction of computing power infrastructure. The new G5 series server products released by ZTE this time support ultra-low energy consumption liquid cooling and heat dissipation. The cold plate liquid cooling technology with high technology maturity and low implementation difficulty can reduce the PUE value of the data center to 1.1, make the cold plate and pipeline highly reliable, conduct intelligent monitoring of the whole pipeline, and give a second level alarm for liquid leakage, so as to ensure the safety and reliability of the product while achieving green and low-carbon computing power.
With the release of G5 series new products, ZTE is promoting server products to be widely used in more industries. Guo Shubo said, "With the rise of new energy, logistics and other emerging industries, we will expand more new industry tracks, launch channel sales, achieve quality scale growth, and become a mainstream server and storage manufacturer at home and abroad while continuing to deepen our efforts in the operator, Internet, finance and power industries in the future."
The digital economy promotes technological innovation and product iteration, and ZTE is ready for the foreseeable future of computing power.
