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Xiao Peng Joins Hands with Alibaba Cloud to Build an Automatic Driving Intelligent Computing Center "Fuyao"

Alibaba Cloud native products, represented by Alibaba Cloud container service ACK, support the construction of technical platforms for multiple businesses of Xiaopeng Auto. Based on the unified container technology stack of container service ACK, Xiaopeng Auto can easily and quickly carry out data processing AI training and reasoning services, workflow SRE operation and maintenance facilities.

Customer introduction

Established in 2014, Xiaopeng Auto is a technology company focusing on future travel. The company has always adhered to the saturated R&D investment and built the core competence of the whole stack of self research. Today, Xiaopeng has become one of the leading smart electric vehicle companies in China.

Business challenges
  • Complex data processing link

The automatic driving Internet of Vehicles has a long data link and fast data growth, which cannot meet the high requirements for data timeliness.

  • Low utilization rate of AI service resources for autopilot

Lack of effective AI model GPU training and reasoning optimization.

  • Incomplete observable system

The front-end Web and back-end services lack effective monitoring and analysis, and the self built Prometheus is not stable.

  • Complex technology stack of support platform

The technology platform needs to support a variety of businesses, and needs to build multiple tool platforms, such as Workflow CI workflow SRE operation and maintenance system, and the technology stack is relatively complex.

"Based on the full volume of business hosted on the container service ACK, Xiaopeng uses tools such as ARMS Prometheus service, front-end monitoring and APM to realize the full link monitoring system, effectively insight into business stability risks, and ensure business stability." -- Xiaopeng Technical Leader

Alibaba Cloud solutions
Elastic computing force supports complex data processing

Running data processing and data desensitization tasks through the container service ACK provides flexible computing power for real-time tasks.

Improve utilization of training and simulation resources

The cloud native AI suite not only supports the automatic driving large-scale training and simulation task scheduling and management of Xiaopeng Auto, improves the utilization of training and simulation resources, but also supports the natural language processing of Xiaopeng Auto's Internet technology platform and Pengxing business, NLP）、 Automatic Speech Recognition, ASR). The sharing scheduling and isolation capability of ACK GPU has doubled the utilization rate of GPU resources.

Full link observability guarantees service stability

Xiaopeng Automobile hosts the full volume of business in the container service ACK, uses Alibaba Cloud's observable monitoring Prometheus service, and implements the full link monitoring system with front-end monitoring and APM and other tools, which can effectively insight into business stability risks and ensure business stability.

Unified Cloud Native Technology Stack Simplifies Operation and Maintenance

Xiaopeng has many businesses, not only including AI businesses such as simulation, audio/video transcoding, video screenshots, image processing, data processing, but also workflow SRE and other platform operation and maintenance tasks. Among them, through container service ACK, Xiaopeng Auto also uses many technologies to process workflow, such as Airflow workflow, distributed workflow Argo cluster workflow Kubeflow Pipelines, Arena, etc. By using a unified technology stack to run businesses and their support systems, container service ACK helps Xiaopeng Automobile greatly reduce the complexity of operation and maintenance.

The overall scheme is shown in the figure below:

Business Value

Xiaopeng Auto and Alibaba Cloud have jointly built an automatic driving intelligent computing center "Fuyao" to lay the foundation of computing power for the training of Xiaopeng full scene intelligent assisted driving system. We believe that together with Alibaba Cloud, we can play a better, faster and stronger role. Alibaba Cloud's technical support has reduced our costs. In the past and future, Alibaba Cloud's reliability and stability are the best choice for Xiaopeng Auto.

AliCloud products used
Container service Kubernetes version ACK Container image service ACR Observable monitoring Prometheus version Application real-time monitoring service ARMS Log Service SLS Object Storage OSS
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