Dedicated to Innovation, H3C Builds AI Transformation Engines with Cloud and AI-Native Digital Platforms

The year 2023 has witnessed a significant upsurge of changes in the ICT industry sparked by groundbreaking innovations in AI-generated content(AIGC). Against such a backdrop, H3C, with the aim of driving scenario-based application of AIGC, officially unveiled the H3C AIGC Openness Strategy and launched more than 10 innovative products and solutions at the H3C NAVIGATE 2023 Summit recently held in Hangzhou, striving to continuously boost the capabilities of cloud & AI-native digital platforms in a bid to lay a sound foundation in terms of digital and intelligent technologies for the comprehensive application of AIGC.

Combination of large-scale model and computing power infrastructure pushes AIGC toward application scenarios of more industries

The digital era has not only endowed various industries with new opportunities for continuous growth, but brought about new challenges for digital platforms. Thanks to its continuous investment in R&D over the past decades, H3C has made many major breakthroughs in innovative technologies including those concerning intelligent computing centers and computing power networks. Riding the global wave of AIGC, H3C has given full play to its abilities at the right time and become an important contributor to infrastructure construction in the AIGC era.

Through the combination of LinSeer, H3C’s newly releasedprivate large-scale AI model and H3C ICT Computing Power Infrastructure, H3C ensures the security of customer’s private domain data while deeply integrating with the business to improve work efficiency. By continuously optimizing algorithms and leveraging accumulated public domain data, H3C provides customers with cutting-edge knowledge capabilities, facilitating optimal collaboration between algorithms and computing power. H3C is also able to provide “User-selected Large-scale AI Model + H3C ICT Computing Power Infrastructure”, providing strong computing power for customers' AIGC business.

Positive returns guaranteed by iteration of computing power, algorithms, and data are what define a successful business model for AIGC, and a reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) cannot be achieved without the powerful capabilities of end-to-end intelligent digital platforms. That’s why H3C has endeavored to pave the way for the application of more emerging digital and intelligent innovations, including AIGC, in industry scenarios by comprehensively enhancing its capacity for ensuring sufficient supply of computing power resources, guaranteeing high-quality connectivity, meeting higher requirements of green energy saving, enabling high-efficiency parallel processing of data, coping with increasing security challenges, and reducing the complexity of unified O&M.

Steven Yoe, Co-President of H3C, CTO & Chairman of Technical Committees at H3C NAVIGATE 2023 Summit held in Hangzhou.

More than 10 new products and solutions to accelerate innovations and iteration in AIGC and further unlock potential of digital and intelligent technologies

H3C is continuously making breakthroughs and innovations with a focus on boosting its capacity in the above-mentioned six aspects, and is advancing the upgrading of full-stack technologies for its “Digital Brain”, in an effort to create robust and powerful engines of innovations in AIGC.

Ensuring sufficient supply of computing power resources – By promoting developments in efficient integration of various xPUs, building advanced computing architecture, enabling unified management and control of heterogeneous resources and intelligent scheduling of multiple computing power, H3C is creating computing power platforms that can better satisfy customer demands in the intelligent era. This year, H3C officially launched its UniServer G6 server series incorporating the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The new series has realized a 53% increase in universal computing power and a threefold growth in AI computing power and data analysis performance.

In an effort to better schedule and manage computing power, H3C has rolled out a brand-new intelligent computing solution that includes AMPHA Computing Power Platform, components for functions covering computing, storage, network connection, and energy consumption management.

The AMPHA Computing Power Platform allows unified management of heterogeneous computing resources and intelligent scheduling of diverse computing resources. As regards the network connection of the solution, users can connect 400G ports to RoCE and InfiniBand (IB) networks. In particular, the connection of 400G ports to RoCE network can deliver performance on a par withthe connection of 400G ports to IB network, and can thus enable connections serving high-efficiency computing for AIGC, as shown by actual performance results and tests using third-party benchmarks. The solution also boasts the ability to schedule AI server cluster with 8,000 nodes and provide storage 600,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) distributed storage performance, which enables it to satisfy the special need for high-efficiency parallel processing of data. In addition, the solution has also incorporated an integrated liquid-cooling solution to cope with challenges for the energy consumption of large-scale intelligent computing and high-efficiency computing. These features make the solution an optimum solution to computing power at the lowest possible TCO.

Guaranteeing high-quality connectivity – Application-Driven Networking (AD-NET) network end-to-end solutions drive the evolution of campuses, data centers, and wide-area networks (WANs) toward such features as all-optical network, wireless access, IPv6 network, deterministic WAN, as well as intelligent and lossless network. H3C has launched its new-generation datacenter switches this year, including the world’s first single-chip 51.2T CPO switch, standard switch, and distributed disaggregated chassis (DDC) switch. These switches can all be used with 800G Ethernet ports and lossless network RoCE solution, and help accelerate the green transformation of data centers through innovative cooling technologies.

H3C’s all-optical flagship solution, S7500X-G+50G-PON, has realized a leap in both uplink and downlink speeds from 10 Gbps to 50 Gbps, thus being able to satisfy needs of emerging scenarios including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and holographic communication. H3C has rolled out AI-native Wi-Fi 7 access points (AP) covering all application scenarios, including high-density AP, mounting-type AP, and panel AP. The new Wi-Fi 7 AP for industrial production scenarios features a network latency as low as 3 milliseconds, provides high bandwidth of 18.44 Gbps for office scenarios, and brings an increase of more than 40% in capacity to high-density education scenarios.

H3C’s 5GtoB deterministic network solution has achieved industrial precision control and is able to keep end-to-end network jitter within 1 millisecond, thanks to deterministic network-related technologies including 5G ultra-reliable low-latency communication(URLLC), Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), andDeterministic Networking (DetNet). It has created an industrial network platform with 99.999% reliability to empower the upgrading of smart manufacturing.

Meeting higher requirements of green energy saving – H3C has launched a new-generation liquid cooling solution, which features green, efficient, intelligent, and minimal data centers based on a rich product portfolio, a comprehensive technical route, full-fledged supporting facilities, and unified O&M. The solution is expected to offer a comprehensive boost to the development and application of digital technologies in China and the country’s dual-carbon strategy.

Enabling high-efficiency parallel processing of data – H3C has made continuous efforts to accelerate innovations in AI in a bid to further unlock the value of data. H3C’s Oasis Platform 3.0 has realized the upgrading of real-time synchronization engine, data lakehouse engine, and intelligent data governance engine. The upgraded real-time synchronization engine makes it possible to perceive changes in data in real time, and therefore enables customers to make faster and wiser business decisions. The upgraded data lakehouse engine helps reduce data relocation, facilitate collaboration on data development, and ensure more efficient data analysis for customers. By bringing into play the role of AI in data governance, the upgraded intelligent data governance engine can reduce customers' cost of data services by 30%.

Coping with increasing security challenges – H3C has taken the lead in the ICT industry to unveil its upgraded flagship firewall M9000-X equipped with 8-port 400G interface board. Boasting the highest overall performance, real-time response, green and low-carbon operations, ultra-wide transmission, network-security integration, and intelligent cloudification, the upgraded firewall can significantly improve customers' capacity to guard against cyber threats.

Reducing the complexity of unified O&M – While functions and automation used to be major challenges for O&M, the key issue facing O&M today is the need for a unified O&M experience. As technologies continue to advance, customers keep adding new products and solutions to previously deployed infrastructure and expect unified data management and consistent user experience among their historical deployment, current deployment, and future deployment, which represents a major challenge for the current O&M systems. H3C’s U-Center 5.0 unified operations platform has realized the goal of unified portal, unified alarm, unified resource, unified process, and unified analysis, thus solving complex and changeable O&M problems and making innovations more efficient by empowering customers to handle O&M with “one operations map” and “one remote control”.

In addition to these products and solutions, H3C has also displayed a new panorama of its operating systems at the H3C NAVIGATE 2023 Summit, debuting NingOS Host Operating System and MegaOS Terminal Operating System. The two new operating systems and H3C’s existing Comware Network Operating System have formed a richer portfolio of operating systems covering cloud, network and terminal, and enabled H3C to provide consistent user experience and end-to-end solutions.

In the tide of changes triggered by AIGC, those who can grasp a gambit in digital transformation get the key to success in the future AI revolution. On the way forward, H3C will adhere to the idea of “Dedication, For A Smarter Future” and work together with more partners along the industrial chain of digital technologies to jointly advance the evolution of H3C’s “Digital Brain”, so as to better unleash the potential of data and inject new value and impetus into the transformation of industries.