On the morning of June 13, the 2022 Alibaba Cloud Summit was held today.
at the meeting,Alibaba Cloud has released a dedicated processor for cloud data centers, the CIPU (Cloud Infrastructure Processing Units), which will replace the CPU and become the processing core of IDC in the cloud era.
It is understood that the CIPU is connected downward to physical computing, storage, and network resources, quickly cloudized and accelerated by hardware; upwardly connected to the Feitian Cloud operating system, it manages and controls Alibaba Cloud’s millions of servers around the world, reducing the loss of computing power virtualization. to 0, and through the large-scale application of RDMA network technology, access to the cloud is faster than access to local hard drives.
From the picture, the CIPU is in the form of a graphics card or an accelerator card.
In terms of performance, according to the official introduction, the new generation of cloud computing architecture system based on CIPU and Feitian has demonstrated superior performance in computing tests of core scenarios such as general computing, big data, and artificial intelligence.
In the field of general distributed computing, the performance of Redis has increased by 68%, MySQL has increased by 60%, and Nginx has increased by 30%. After high-throughput Internet services are migrated to the cloud, the cluster throughput of self-built physical machines has increased by 30%. 90% drop in latency during peak business hours;
In computing and data-intensive scenarios such as big data and AI, compared to traditional TCP networks, the throughput capacity of elastic RDMA high-performance networks is improved by more than 30%; in terms of cloud native, the container startup speed is 350% faster. In serverless scenarios 3000 elastic container instances can be pulled up in 6 seconds.
The latest data from Gartner shows that in 2021, Alibaba Cloud will rank third in the global cloud computing market and first in the Asia-Pacific market; its global market share will be 9.55%.
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