Step intoGreen Computing Consortium

Tao Wang

March 21, 2018

Diversified Workload and Moore‘s Law Failure Opened Opportunity for ARM

PC ageMany architectures flourishing Mobile Internet ageNew opportunity for major arch Cloud Computing ageSeeking breakthrough in new direction

Power PA-RISC

AlphaSPARC

Itanium

Moto 68K

X86 MIPS

PPCARM

Z

Power

X86

MIPSARM

High performance server

PC & Server

SoC/Mobile/Consumer DSPNP

RISC to IA

IA to ARMOpen, good ecosystem

Multi-Core

Heterogeneous

IntegrationLearning ARM to be prosperous again

Partly open

Closed architecture

The number of cores has increased significantly . Cache Coherent Interconnect.CPU+GPGPU+FPGA+……

Memory system refactoring, CPU / MEM depth integration Memory closer to computing

RISC vs CISC

Diversified Workload and Moore‘s Law Failure Opened Opportunity for ARM (cont.) Diversified workload in Cloud computing, promoting new trend in data center,

including multi-core, heterogeneous and integration, which put forward a huge demand for the next generation of computing

Moore's Law failed after 7nm process, the cost drastically increasing brought a significant opportunity for ARM. The industry began to start

Common Idea Gathered a Group

● Server manufacturers who has invested the chip and system, expect the commercial interests from the good development of ARM industry

● MIIT represent for Chinese Government, need a healthier computing industry with higher energy efficiency products and system

● Those, are founding member of GCC

2015 Nov. in Beijing, First Round Table Meeting● Core results

○ 18 participating companies, universities and academic institutes reached the consensus to found Green Computing industry alliance

● Alliance mission○ Conforming to the ICT industry trends of open source

software and open hardware, converging the advanced resources from global ecosystem, and providing enterprises with easier use and manageable green energy-efficient products based on the ARM computing chipsets and other open technologies.

● Confirmed follow-up planning and rhythm● Followed with monthly meeting:

○ Alliance target○ Bylaw

2016 Feb. Beijing, Preparation Meeting for Final Found Up● Core result

○ Reached consensus on OpenGCC alliance direction

● Mei Hong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , the chairman of the board,

● Main target of alliance: to improve green industry

● Discussed alliance bylaw and IPR policy● Initiated the discussion about work

direction

Alliance Idea ： 5 Areas to Establish the Ecosystem

● Based on advanced scenario , bidirectional driving Pilot Programs and the SW ecosystem(including business SW and Open Source SW)

● Standards: to ensure the industry consistency ● Talent development: training program to ensure the sustainable

development of green computing industry

③Open Source SW ② Business SW

Scenario ②Scenario① Scenario n

①Pilot Programs

④Interface standardsHWOSTool chain& LibraryDatabase

Advanced scenarios

Application

⑤Talent Development

Scope of GCC ① Windows manages independent system : fit for all Windows scenario through WinDK adaption

② Cooperation between Chip vendors （ Q/Cavium/H ） and system vendors 3 Chip vendors need unified BIOS

and driver Avoid repeating work on tool chain

③ In Linaro ， align Linux Kernel and part of Tool Chain through ERP

④ Linux OS business version, graphic needs GPU support RedHat 、 Ubuntu 、 SUSE GPU ： AMD/Nvidia

⑤ Database adaption⑥ Build Midware and App through

TestBed

ApplicationMidware

Database

OS

HostChips

DriverBIOS

Tool chain

Performance/debugging tool

Compilerdebugger

MonitorMaintainBackuptoolLinux

RedHat Ubuntu SUSE

Oracle/SAP

Linux Kernel

Windows Server

SQLServer

Kernel

OpenFlow/OpenStack/OpenJDK /JavaApache/nginx/MySQL/PHP/Hadoop

Qualcomm Cavium Hisilicon

UEFI/ACPIPlinth

UEFI/ACPIWinDK

HP

①

②③④

⑤

②’③’

Dell 联想 HW……

⑥

2016 Apr. Beijing, Formally Launched

● 4 levels of member: Platinum, Golden, Silver and Regular (Academy and User)

● 17 founding members● Website:

Http://www.openGCC.org; Wechat public account“ 绿色计算产业联盟”

● Based in China with global cooperation

Organizational Structure and Work Scope

Technical committee Secretariat

Standards & Test IPRSystem Enabling Talent Development

Board of Directors

Pilot Program

General Meeting of MembersAdvisory Committee

Organizational Structure and Work Scope (cont.)● Secretariat

○ Permanent dept which responsible for organization, operation and working group support

● Standards and Test○ Define GCC technology standards and test spec, and conduct test and validation to

avoid industry split

● System Enabling○ Cooperate with Linaro to promote the system enablement via R&D and tool

development

● Pilot Program○ Promote application demonstrations for both OTT and enterprise customers to drive

ecosystem build-up

● IPR○ Manage IPR related issues, case by case

● Talent Development○ Establish the talent development programs in academy to ensure the sustainable

development of green computing industry

Fruitful Results after 1 Year Operation 19 members newly added, total 36 （ by Feb. 2018 ） Finished“Green Computing Standards Whitepaper”and plan to release at

the World Internet Conference in 2017 Dec Under building: ARM-based green computing research and test

platform(CESI), two testbeds Good cooperation to promote ARM ecosystem: key Linux OS released business

version More worked to do: GPU adaptation, Platform building, Application

enrichment

Fruitful Results after 1 Year Operation (cont.)

Deep and Extensive Cooperation to Promote Green Computing Industry in the Future Research and development collaboration-- GCC Developer Cloud (ERP based) initial setup ready to grow GCC SW ecosystem

Version release collaboration

Technical seminar synergy

Thank You

Tao WangMarch 21, 2018