Huawei’s Atlas 900 wins AI award at Interop Tokyo 2020
It was recently announced that Huawei’s groundbreaking Atlas 900 AI cluster has claimed the only ‘Best of Show’ award at Interop Tokyo 2020.
One of the largest annual technology-based conferences in Japan, Interop Tokyo provides a platform for the industry to explore the latest trends, discuss the business utilisation of developments and give companies the opportunity to demonstrate their ideas.
The ‘Best of Show’ award comprises several categories, including AI, IoT, cloud, enterprise IT and more, and features a panel of industry, media and academic experts.
Huawei’s Atlas 900 was ultimately selected by the panel in recognition of its computational power and well-designed heat dissipation. The award also recognises the catalysing importance of Atlas 900 as an accelerator for AI development across the tech industry.
Providing the ultimate AI solution
Upon inspecting the capabilities of Atlas 900, it becomes readily apparent why Huawei was selected as recipient for the award. One of the fastest AI training clusters in the world, it has a computational capacity of 256 to 1024 petaFLOPS (equivalent to almost 500,000 personal computers).
‘AI clustering’ is essentially a machine learning process whereby the computer receives training data and is then allowed to ‘find its own patterns’ within it, thus removing the potential for operator bias (more information can be found here).
What makes Atlas 900 doubly significant is its ability to ‘learn’ training data in the ResNet-50 benchmark test within 59.8secs, the only product capable of doing so in less than one minute.
Tony Xu, President of Huawei Ascend Computing, enthused the broad applications of the company’s product, from usage in business to cutting-edge scientific endeavours:
“The Huawei Atlas AI computing solution provides powerful computing and ultimate energy efficiency for all AI scenarios across devices, the edge, and the cloud.
“The Atlas 900 AI cluster provides data centres with powerful computing, high linearity, and the best energy efficiency to accelerate data-intensive research, such as astronomical exploration, weather prediction, oil exploration, and gene sequencing. Research breakthroughs translate into practical benefits for people worldwide.”
Regarding its aforementioned heat-dissipation capability, Atlas 900 employs a liquid cooling solution in an enclosed adiabatic design, meaning that heat energy is not transferred to its surroundings — an important feature owing to the system’s high-powered ability.
Pioneering digital innovation
This latest triumph for Huawei comes not long after the recent launch of its Cloud Stack and CloudFabric 2.0 solutions.
Stating that the company is heavily focused on developing its penetration of the government and enterprise market via industry-leading infrastructure solutions, Zheng Yelai, VP at Huawei and President of HUAWEI CLOUD, said that harnessing data was the key to innovation:
“In this age of new infrastructure, computing power has become a new source of productivity; data is the new raw material.
“Cloud, AI, and 5G are the new tools of production, and a new digital infrastructure is injecting momentum into digital transformation. Cloud services are the only way forward for the smart upgrade of government and enterprise organisations.”
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Originally published at https://asia.businesschief.com on June 1, 2020.
