BERLIN, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Huawei
Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2024 in Berlin, Dr. Peter
Zhou, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Data
Storage Product Line, presented Huawei's latest thinking in his
talk "Redefining Data Storage in the Data Awakening Era."
AI looks to disrupt traditional data storage, by not only
focusing on performance, reliability, and data paradigm, but also
on scalability, sustainability, and data fabric, Zhou said. In the
data awakening era, he added, Huawei will redefine data storage
through leading innovation in these six dimensions:
- Ultra performance: Huawei enhances storage
performance by a factor of 10, compared to traditional storage. The
storage also supports bandwidth in PB/s and 100 million IOPS, which
greatly improves the efficiency of the entire generative AI
process.
- Data resilience: Innovative architecture and
technologies boost high reliability of 99.9999%. The built-in
ransomware detection engine raises the detection accuracy to
99.99%. Even the checkpoint recovery time during AI training is
shortened to less than a minute.
- New data paradigm: The multi-dimensional tensor
data is enabled to support fast data retrieval via an intelligent
search engine. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology
works with the embedded knowledge base to eliminate hallucination
in large AI models.
- Scalability: A single storage cluster can be scaled
out for EB-level capacity and each engine can be scaled up with
more GPUs, DPUs, or NPUs for near-storage computing.
- Sustainability: Innovations in storage media and
devices have brought about outstanding storage energy efficiency
(less than 1 watt/TB) and storage density (greater than 1
PB/U).
- Data fabric: The capabilities of storage metadata
management and search enable global data visibility and
manageability, as well as data mobility that is 10 times more
efficient.
These six dimensions guide the philosophy behind the recent
launch of the high-performance OceanStor A800, which is a powerful
addition to Huawei OceanStor A series storage models. Tailored for
AI applications, OceanStor A800 can increase AI cluster utilization
by 30%, and as for performance, it delivers high bandwidth and
IOPS, which are four and eight times better than its peer vendor's.
Regarding scalability, OceanStor A800 supports scaling out to
EB-level capacity with up to 512 controllers, as well as scaling up
to a maximum of 4,096 computing cards. As for conserving space and
energy, it achieves an outstanding storage density of 1 PB/U and
energy efficiency of 0.7 watt/TB. It also provides a new data
paradigm with vector index, tensor data, and RAG. In terms of data
resilience, the accuracy of ransomware detection is improved from
99.9% to 99.99%. In addition, the data fabric capability
facilitates data asset management.
At the same time, storage media innovations are driving
sustainable development. Huawei's newly released high-capacity SSDs
provide 10 times more capacity with the same disk size, which can
further reduce energy consumption of a data center. With 128 TB
capacity per disk, the new SSDs consume 88% less storage space and
92% less energy than the peer vendor's SSDs when storing every one
PB of data.
To be AI-ready, enterprises must get data-ready. The
Omni-Dataverse global file system built in the DME makes enterprise
data assets visible, manageable, and mobile across regions, thereby
building a solid AI data lake storage foundation for
enterprises.
Dr. Peter Zhou ended by
emphasizing Huawei's commitment to redefining data storage that
focuses on customer challenges and demands in the data awakening
era, and building leading AI-ready data infrastructure for greater
customer value.
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