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Thursday, June 04 2020 - 18:47
AsiaNet
Huawei Atlas 900 AI Cluster Wins the Only Best of Show Award for AI at Interop Tokyo 2020
TOKYO, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

The jury panel at Interop Tokyo 2020 has given the Huawei Atlas 900 AI cluster 
the Best of Show Award in recognition of its powerful AI computing and superior 
heat dissipation. Huawei Atlas 900 is the only AI product of 2020 to receive 
the Best of Show Award. The exceptional performance of Atlas 900 is a catalyst 
for global AI research and drives AI application across industries.

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The Best of Show Award is the highest honor of the Interop conference. Only 
products which meet the high standards of quality demanded by the Japanese IT 
market are considered. 

Tony Xu, President of Huawei Ascend Computing, said, "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 centers 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."

Atlas 900 is the fastest AI training cluster in the world. It delivers a total 
computing power of 256 to 1024 petaFLOPS at half precision (FP16), equivalent 
to the computing power of 500,000 personal computers. Atlas 900 shattered the 
world record on the ResNet-50 benchmark test for model training by completing 
training in 59.8 seconds. Atlas 900 is the only product capable of completing 
the training in under a minute. Atlas 900 has broad applications in scientific 
research and business innovation for faster training of AI models with images 
and videos.

Atlas 900 integrates three interfaces for high-speed interconnection: Huawei 
Cache Coherence System (HCCS), PCIe 4.0, and 100G Ethernet. The Atlas 900 AI 
cluster leverages the Huawei CloudEngine data center switches to work on a 100 
TB/s full-mesh, non-blocking dedicated network for parameter synchronization. 
The network slashes parameter synchronization latency by 10 to 70 percent to 
streamline AI model training.

Heat dissipation is a critical issue for an AI training cluster with such high 
computing power. That is why the Atlas 900 AI cluster adopts a groundbreaking 
system for heat dissipation. It leads industry innovation with a full liquid 
cooling solution and a rack-scale enclosed adiabatic design. This design 
delivers tremendous heat dissipation even for single racks with power 
consumption of up to 50 kW. It achieves a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 
below 1.1 for data centers, almost reaching the ideal PUE of 1.0. Atlas 900 
improves over air-cooled 8-kW racks by reducing equipment room space by 79%. 
Its innovative liquid cooling system provides energy-intensive, high-density, 
and low-PUE deployment to drastically reduce customer TCO.

Huawei is fostering cooperation to build the Ascend computing industry with 
open hardware, open source software, and partner enablement. Huawei provides 
full-stack AI computing infrastructure and application solutions to power 
industries with AI and create pervasive intelligence.

--Ends--

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications 
technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions 
across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud 
services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and 
organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both 
competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we 
create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home 
life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic 
research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world 
forward. We have more than 194,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 
countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company wholly 
owned by its employees. For more information, please visit Huawei online at 
www.huawei.com or follow us on:

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