Not long ago, Tencent cloud just outside of a new server, called the depth of self-development and unique, which is also the name of the twelfth kawaii, called the "sea of stars." Although not enough time to explore less crystalline origin of its name, but has learned that one of the important basic style chat with the stars of the sea in the supply chain to talk about, general manager of Tencent Liu Yuxun server, the cloud is born.
Sea stars, Tencent's first born for the cloud server, not simply hang a loud label only. In-depth analysis "born for the cloud" concept, we may have to be traced back to the development process server under normal circumstances.
We found that server developed under normal circumstances is difficult to avoid "stuffing" of the dilemma, so-called Class A properties A user needs, requirements and user B B styles, one to two to the whole structure becomes very complex, enterprise-class server even more so, because and more companies need to meet the needs of users; contrast here is "born for the cloud," a very important point is to be optimized in accordance with the design and even attribute the cloud. So in the design of the deployment process, sea stars decisive combines real world deployment scenarios require data center, made a key is optimized for cloud computing, storage, networking and other scenes, it is understood Tencent cloud to effectively meet the needs of 98% of scenarios.
"In fact, each software product configuration corresponding to the hardware requirements are different, but if you can use the same set of server architecture, whether it is the underlying storage memory or CPU, can meet the needs of software product level, self-development technology has reached the nexus, also known as soft and hard synergistic. "Liu Yuxun representation. In this idea-driven, sea stars through sophisticated hardware design significantly reduce hardware and operating costs, while effectively matching the supply chain as a whole Tencent server upgrade, better integration of the hardware industry chain capability.
In addition to starting from the cloud, efficient use of hardware resources outside, it is important that the sea star is also reflected in streamlining, the data show that compared with traditional servers, sea stars in the entire tailoring materials more than 20%, this "good and Province "in particular, reflected in the energy consumption outstanding. For example, 100,000 sea star cluster servers, each year compared to traditional server actually save more than 5 electricity consumption million degrees, after all, fifty percent power consumption of all energy from the server, of course, this is the spirit of streamlining Traditionally benchmarking.
Sea stars in the introduction of foreign official declared, we found that compared with traditional servers is very important that the whole program can support different host CPU type, compatible architecture with high prospective, is unified planning and hardware infrastructure boasted to support future 3 - 5 years of the evolution of server products. Data shows that the depth of customization in their joint AMD CPU at the latest ROME platform to achieve the optimal single-core performance and industry best single-core TCO. According crystal less understood, sea stars can achieve cloud service instances overall performance increase of more than 35%, of which 40 percent faster video processing, graphics, transcoding score upgrade 35%, Web Services page QPS upgrade up to 152%.
Turning to the depth of customization AMD's CPU, Liu Yuxun proposed, as one of AMD Tencent seven CSP, related to problems found during testing Once feedback will be highly valued aspects of AMD, and AMD reference for important technological upgrading of products .
The stars at the sea depth of customization CPU server, for example, the previously released AMD CPU only two types, namely 32-core and 64-core, custom sea and the stars in the latest rome platform single CPU core 48, this the main difference from Tencent cloud aspects for comprehensive assessment of the overall server memory overhead and performance overhead with both. It compared usually sold two sets of CPU equipped with a traditional form of 8G memory, specifically based on the amount of data operators Tencent sea of clouds, the 48-core CPU clocked at either the performance or achieve optimum adaptation effect. Popular, if replaced by a more high-end CPU, its energy consumption will be greatly increased, at this point, Liu Yuxun also specifically cited the example of a very humorous so that we can be more vivid understanding of: a dining table could dining accommodate ten people, if everyone is eating weighing more than 200 pounds obese, presumably so many dining environment will be very crowded, and every body fat diner is like a high consumption of CPU, in the actual use of the process there will be many problems. In addition to the depth of customization of CPU power, in supporting, Hong cooling technology blessing to use the stars sea to achieve the maximum load energy efficiency comparison of the industry can be increased by 50%, although the technology is not a new theory of the industry's heat, but the actual landing, the stars sea be one of the outstanding representatives.
"Indeed, stars in the sea for us, be first one, but by no means the only one, we have the next 3--5 years in the field of computing hardware server cloud trends made full certification, so that the whole server solutions to meet the future 3 - 5 years of product evolution can be simply understood as, is such a server program, when faced with an endless stream of new technology, only minor adjustments need to be made larger without changing the direction of architecture, technology adaptation and can be completed upgrade. " crystal less informed, sea stars in design to volume production at such a rate less than a year (usually under traditional server vendors, from conceptual design to mass production possible deployment, the general cycle to two years in a year and a half ), the future will be deployed by the end of at least more than five thousand units of the scale Tencent cloud of existing business areas, described as "the addition of fast" pace.
Normal forecast, then, in this year's Spring Festival rush QQ red link or micro-channel business can be run directly on the sea in the stars. Tencent cloud through the rapid deployment of the stars on Tencent's public cloud offerings, and with self-development and QQ micro letter, such a large amount of business to do pull body measurements to polish the entire hardware and software products, I believe that in this way "exercise" out of sea can be more efficient to provide users with cost-effective advantage of computing products, the richness of the scene to win.
Turning to the future stars of the sea, Liu Yuxun proposed direction of fit different CPU architectures, including Intel, domestic architecture or is it self-developed chips, etc., after all, for cloud service providers, cost efficiency has always been the eternal theme . "If there is no way to provide an annual high-quality, cost-effective products to users, equivalent to a certain extent, the entire Tencent cloud competitive advantage will be affected. We prefer the Internet industry by thinking, based on years of grinding in the user experience, to achieve for the ultimate pursuit of performance and cost; and the evolution of business through the ability to provide cost-effective products to reduce the cost of the enterprise or cloud customers or with overhead cloud, thus contributing to the vigorous development of the Internet industry. "
