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- On January 2, the National Key Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (CENI) of the Future Network Experimental Facility was announced to be fully completed.
- On January 3, the world’s first optoelectronic fusion deterministic new computing network infrastructure based on CENI facilities was officially launched and an application demonstration meeting was held.
This is the world’s first
Realizing the certainty of optoelectronic fusion
New computing network infrastructure
Wide-area lossless load case officially launched
It will lay a solid foundation for China to achieve technological breakthroughs and industry leadership in the field of new network infrastructure, and then steadily move towards global leadership. It demonstrates a milestone breakthrough in future networks in terms of coverage, computing power access, technological innovation and industrial value.
Future Network Experimental Facility (CENI)
It is the information and network field in my country
The first major national scientific and technological infrastructure
In essence, it is an experimental network platform that comprehensively improves my country’s network innovation capabilities and enhances the core competitiveness of the network industry.
Major national scientific and technological infrastructure is called “large scientific facilities”. It is of great significance to enhance my country’s original innovation capabilities, achieve breakthroughs in key areas, ensure the long-term development of science and technology, and realize the goal of moving from a major scientific and technological power to a strong scientific and technological power. It is truly a “national treasure.”
In February 2013, the State Council’s Document No. 8 listed the Future Network Experimental Facility as a major national science and technology infrastructure to be built during the 12th Five-Year Plan. In 2015, CENI was established in Jiangning, Nanjing. At the city’s science and technology conference and industrial science and technology innovation work promotion meeting held on January 2 this year, the Future Network Experimental Facility National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure (CENI) was announced to be fully completed.
At present, based on CENI facilities, a deterministic computing network has been successfully built for heterogeneous computing power to achieve wide coverage, large throughput, and hyper-converged connection scheduling, realizing the “one network” computing network service capability of “one jump to enter the computing, one-click adjustment, and one network for all”.
The first phase of the project, built by Jiangsu Future Network Group and Purple Mountain Laboratory, covers nine cities across the country. The network comprehensively covers key areas such as Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guiyang, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Zhangjiakou, and Qingyang, and forms a synergistic linkage with national computing power networks such as the CENI project, a national large scientific facility, and the service scope is further expanded.
The total scale of current access computing power reaches 106000P
A huge computing resource pool has been built
This time, we have joined hands with leading domestic GPU companies such as Huawei Ascend, Baidu Kunlun Core, Tianshu Zhixin, and Computing Power Interconnection, H3C and ZTE equipment manufacturers, and 23 computing power access units to jointly promote the deep integration of networks and diversified computing power and build a powerful heterogeneous computing power collaborative ecosystem; connect heterogeneous computing power, deploy a deterministic computing network scheduling platform, and realize on-demand scheduling of computing network collaboration, one-hop computing for integrated computing network, and integrated computing of heterogeneous computing network.
The new deterministic computing network infrastructure based on optoelectronic fusion has broken through the bottlenecks of optoelectronic signal separation, high cost, high energy consumption, and low efficiency in traditional network architecture, and has built a new network with lossless transmission without electrical relay over 2,000 kilometers, 400/800G rate per wave and single port, and deterministic performance of less than 5 microsecond jitter across the entire network. It is the first in the industry to achieve high-quality network transmission capabilities with a packet loss rate of less than one in 100,000 and a transmission efficiency of more than 90%.
A series of world-leading key capabilities meet the urgent needs for service-customizable high-performance networks in key areas such as high-throughput networks for large-model training, high-elasticity networks for AI intelligent agent reasoning, high-speed bearer networks for data element circulation, high-availability networks for industrial control, and high-reliability networks for government-specific networks.
Liu Yunjie, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief scientist of Purple Mountain Laboratory, said that as the world’s first wide-area lossless bearer case to achieve optoelectronic integrated deterministic new computing network infrastructure,
the future network will provide strong technical support for national key projects and industries such as “East Data West Computing”, AI-driven computing economy, and industrial Internet, promote the deep integration of network technology and the real economy, and contribute more “Nanjing wisdom” and “Jiangsu solutions” to the national digital transformation and high-quality development.
