Recently, the list of "Top 100 Computing Power in 2023" jointly launched by Deben Consulting, ENET Research Institute, and Internet Weekly was announced. Dr. Peng Group was officially selected into the list of "IDC Services".
Under the influence of the wave of digitalization, the computing power industry has gradually become a key driving force to promote social progress. This is not only the iteration and upgrade of a single technology, but a comprehensive transformation covering cloud computing, semiconductors, data centers, communication networks and other fields.
From computing to the cloud to edge computing
As the core and most valuable factor of production in the era of digital economy, data is accelerating to become a new driving force and engine for global economic growth.
IDC's "Data Age 2025" report pointed out that the annual data generated globally will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes in 2025. If you want to sort out and process data, you can't do without the blessing of computing power. According to Huawei's Computing 2030 report, by 2030, the amount of data will increase by 23 times, the general computing power will increase by 10 times, and the intelligent computing power will increase by 500 times.
Computing, networking, and storage are the three key elements of computing infrastructure to give full play to the value of data elements.
In October 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other six departments jointly issued the Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of Computing Infrastructure, further clarifying the standards for computing power, transportation capacity, and storage capacity, and focusing on six major areas to build a benchmark for computing power applications.
Among them, the rise of cloud computing power has opened the door for many enterprises and even individual developers to enter the field of high-performance computing. Its essence is to remotely obtain and use computing resources distributed in various data centers through the Internet. As of March 2023, more than 30 cities in China are building or proposing to build intelligent computing centers. With the remarkable characteristics of economic scalability and flexibility, cloud computing power has begun to be more deeply integrated into various industries such as government affairs, industry, education, and healthcare, and a super intelligent computing center with "computing as the center and network as the bus" will be built in the future.
At the same time, due to the effectiveness of resources, the distribution of computing power in the future will no longer be concentrated in data centers, but will be widely distributed in areas and locations at the edge or on the device side, so as to ensure the orderly and effective operation of the entire network.
In the Internet era, "data center-CDN-mobile terminal" provides customers with the content they need nearby, so as to improve the response speed of user access. This marginal design optimizes the distribution or delivery of content, improving network efficiency and user experience.
When it comes to computing to the cloud, the "center-edge-end" model is further extended, and edge computing comes into being. In the vicinity of the end or data source, the central platform provides end-end computing services to meet the key needs of various industries in terms of agile digital connection, real-time business, data optimization, application intelligence, security and privacy protection, etc., and forms a new computing model that integrates cloud, network, device, and intelligence. (*Internet Deep).