At present, the digital economy is entering a new stage of development, and the role of computing power as a core resource in the digital age has become increasingly prominent, and the construction of digital information infrastructure centered on computing power has been raised to unprecedented heights. Especially under the driving effect of the "East Counting West Counting" project, building a high-quality computing power network has become a new direction. Then, what stage has my country's computing power industry developed at present, and what challenges will it face in the future have become issues of concern to the industry.

The vigorous development of the computing power industry still faces many challenges

"The construction and application of my country's computing power infrastructure has maintained rapid development, laying a good foundation for the development of the east-to-west computing project." At the 8th Information Strategy Forum of the Information Technology 100, the first-level inspector of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Chen Jiachun said.

On the basis of building the world's largest optical fiber and mobile communication network, that is, the dual gigabit network, the scale of computing power is also growing rapidly, with an average growth rate of more than 30% in the past five years. By the end of 2021, the total computing power of my country's data centers has exceeded 140Eflops. Newly built data centers, especially large and ultra-large data centers, are gradually shifting to the central and western regions and the surrounding areas of first-tier cities, and the coordinated development of core regions such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Chengdu-Chongqing has been basically formed, and the coordinated development of the central and western regions has been basically formed. Complementary development pattern.

In addition, Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and deputy secretary of the party committee, pointed out that the total scale of my country's computing power will reach 135EFlops in 2020, accounting for about 31% of the world, maintaining a high-speed growth of 55% (global growth rate of 16%). The proportion of my country's intelligent computing power has increased from 3% in 2016 to 41% in 2020. It is estimated that in 2023, AI computing power will reach 70%-80% of the newly added computing power.

While the computing power industry is booming, Zheng Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of the Computer Department of Tsinghua University, also pointed out that the development of computing power in my country is currently facing three major problems: First, the domestic supercomputing platform has a variety of architectures, and the workload of application transplantation and tuning is heavy; Second, the ability of domestic supercomputing platforms to support the full-process computing of complex applications needs to be improved urgently; third, the United States is targeting my country's artificial intelligence companies, facing a huge risk of being stuck.

Multi-point efforts to accelerate the development of the computing power industry and computing from east to west

In response to the challenges of computing power development, Zheng Weimin put forward four suggestions: first, to strengthen the research and construction of cross-platform compilation and optimization platforms; second, to strengthen the research and development of domestic supercomputing HPDA system software; The industry is accelerating its use; the fourth is to strengthen the research and development of the integration of HPC, AI and Data computing systems.

In addition, Chen Jiachun, the first-level inspector of the Department of Information and Communication Development of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, also put forward three suggestions for the development of my country's computing power industry and the development of east and west computing.

The first is to speed up the construction of computing power infrastructure to ensure the diversified supply of computing power resources. Accelerate the construction of a national integrated big data center system, coordinate the deployment of computing power resources in the east and west, accelerate the creation of a multi-level computing power facility system with digital network collaboration, digital cloud collaboration, cloud edge collaboration, and green intelligence, and strengthen the intelligent scheduling of computing power , orderly promote the east counting west counting project, and continue to guide the computing power of the eastern and western regions.

二是提升算力网络支撑能力，强化算网的协同融合发展。一方面，要尽快补足当前算力枢纽节点间网络薄弱环节，重点提升蒙桂甘宁区域的网络能力，启动一批东数西算光缆建设项目，优化算力网络支撑。另一方面，要逐步建立算网协同联动机制，推动算力网络需求和供给有效对接。

三是强化创新驱动、应用赋能，推进算力绿色普惠发展。强化算力应用需求牵引，降低算力使用门槛，增强算力应用赋能水平，挖掘算力服务在数字政府、工业互联网等创新应用场景下的深化应用。

陈家春强调，面向未来，我国数字化转型进程持续加快，新技术新业态加速迭代，算力将不断的赋能千行百业，为经济社会高质量发展提供新动能。