Huawei held the Computing Industry Basic Software Summit in Shanghai, 
demonstrating the achievements made after the launch of the open source basic 
software projects. A basic ecosystem has been established around openEuler, 
openGauss, openLooKeng, and MindSpore.

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(Jiang Dayong, Vice President of Huawei Kunpeng Computing Business, delivering 
a keynote speech)

Jiang Dayong introduced Huawei's basic software strategy, including software 
and hardware full-stack innovation, as well as how open source has accelerated 
innovation to drive the basic software industry forward.

Four Basic Software Projects Power Innovation of Open Source Communities

While hardware provides the foundation of computing power, basic software helps 
unleash the potential, and application software creates tangible value for end 
users. Innovation will gain speeds when a virtuous cycle is formed among 
hardware vendors, basic software vendors, application software vendors, system 
developers, software developers, and users.

Open source software is an important part of Huawei's computing ecosystem 
strategy. Huawei values open hardware, open source software, and partner 
enablement. By leading open source initiatives, contributing, and enabling 
business partners, Huawei supports the technical software ecosystem with 
continuous innovation.

In terms of community contributions, Huawei ranks No. 2 globally in the latest 
Linux Kernel 5.8 release. Huawei leads four open source projects: openEuler, 
openGauss, openLooKeng, and MindSpore, and has completed continuous integration 
with more than 40 mainstream communities. By contributing to upstream 
communities for mainstream scenarios, Huawei enables 80% of key communities to 
provide native support for Kunpeng. In this way, ARM developers can use these 
open source components easily. Such efforts all help to lay a solid groundwork 
for full-stack hardware and software collaboration.

Hardware is the basis of the entire ecosystem, and operating systems are the 
basis of software. openEuler officially went open source on December 31, 2019, 
and the 20.03 Long-Term Support (LTS) version was released in March 2020. After 
nine months of operation, the openEuler community has attracted more than 2000 
contributors, set up 70 special interest groups (SIGs), and engaged more than 
60 leading enterprises in China. Six top operating system vendors in China have 
joined the community and released commercial versions. 

The innovation version, openEuler 20.09, will also be officially released on 
September 30, 2020. The release features 1+8: one kernel plus eight innovation 
projects, covering multi-core acceleration, iSula2.0 lightweight VM, StratoVirt 
cloud native container, BiSheng JDK, Compass CI, A-Tune intelligent tuning 
tool, UKUI desktop, secGear precision computing framework, and IMA integrity 
measurement architecture. The innovative 1+8 architecture makes openEuler the 
most vibrant open source community.

Databases are the gist of basic software and the core of customers' business 
systems. There is a gap between traditional open source databases and 
enterprise application expectation in terms of performance, availability, and 
security. 

Huawei openGauss is positioned as an enterprise-grade open source database. 
Huawei closely works with partners to rapidly release commercial versions, 
meeting industry customers' requirements for high performance, reliability, and 
converged business processing. openGauss officially went open source on June 
30, 2020, focusing on performance optimized for Kunpeng. Based on 2-socket 
Kunpeng servers, openGauss delivers up to 1.5 million tpmC, 50% higher than 
that of industry's mainstream products. In just three months, six partners have 
released commercial versions of openGauss. These partners also help to advance 
the commercial use of openGauss.

openLooKeng aims to power data analytics with the ultimate simplicity, enabling 
users to harness big data with the ease of database usage. Huawei will continue 
efforts in building unified engines, robust ecosystem, and high reliability.

openLooKeng 1.0 has been released in the community on September 23, 2020. It 
implements cross-source and cross-domain high-performance interactive queries, 
Virtual Data Marts (VDM), and unified data query without migration or 
conversion. In addition, openLooKeng 1.0 supports diversified analysis on a 
unified engine, allowing interactive analysis of hundreds of billions of data 
records within seconds, and collaborative analysis of hundreds of billions of 
data records across multiple data centers.

Build a Complete Basic Software Ecosystem, and Cultivate Talent for the 
Ecosystem

To accelerate ecosystem construction, Huawei will provide various support, 
including learning, build, and go-to-market support to help partners improve 
their business competitiveness. After one year's efforts, Huawei has more than 
1000 ISV partners and 3000 solutions in the computing space.

Partners and developers are the foundation of the ecosystem, and talent is the 
future of the ecosystem. Huawei and Tsinghua University jointly released 
openEuler and openGauss technical books to build the basic knowledge of 
operating systems and databases into university courses. In the future, Fudan 
University, Tongji University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 
and 10 other universities will provide related courses.

In addition, the technical white paper of the openEuler 20.09 version was 
officially released, revealing new features and projects of the 20.09 version. 
The openEuler certification program will also be officially launched in 
October. 30 certificates of the first batch of HCIA certification will be open 
to openEuler.

At the summit, leading experts from the academia, media, and commercial domains 
joined Du Junping, General Manager of Huawei's Cloud & AI Open Source Business, 
to discuss the relationship between open source and business.

Wu Qingbo, one of the featured guests, believed that open source and business 
can only go further if they work with each other. In the education space, open 
source is the best means – it features freedom and fairness.

Jiang Tao, founder of CSDN, said that business will not hinder the development 
of open source, but will rather boost open source. Open source embracing 
business is open source in a real sense. 

Another featured guest, Han Qing's viewpoint was to define the success of an 
open source project. The first step is to create value, generate social 
effects, find added values in open source projects, and then produce aggregated 
effects through business engagement to achieve business success.

Du Junping concluded that open source allows organizations and individuals to 
innovate and create industry value in an open, fair, transparent, and secure 
environment.

Inspired by the mindset of fostering a sustainable, open source basic software 
ecosystem Of All, By All, For All, Huawei welcomes partners, developers, and 
enthusiasts to join the computing industry, working together to bring 
diversified computing power to the global ecosystem for shared success.

SOURCE: Huawei

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delivering a keynote speech