Fourth-Generation SHENLONG Architecture & RISC-V Technology & Panjiu Server Series

Apsara conference 2022 storage IOPS is as high as three million, the network PPS is as high as 50 million, and the network latency is as low as five microseconds. Alibaba Cloud's fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture has set the industry's highest level once again. Based on the leading basic performance, the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture will bring further performance improvements to common applications, such as databases, AI, and big data. The MySQL database performance has improved by 60%, and the NGINX SSL scenario is the highest at 420% Apsara conference 2022.

Apsara conference 2022 SHENLONG architecture is a new generation of software and hardware integrated virtualization technology developed by Alibaba Cloud that offloads the virtualization of a dedicated chip for processing and performs using a hardware-accelerated IO engine. It has ultra-high performance and flexibility and is the best carrier for cloud-native. In terms of security, the latest generation of SHENLONG is equipped with enterprise-level security chips with trusted computing and encrypted computing capabilities to achieve trusted tamper-proofing of the system and invisible data. Among them, the unique elastic RDMA acceleration capability of the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture will benefit the vast number of Internet applications Apsara conference 2022.

Apsara conference 2022 Elastic RDMA (eRDMA) is China's first large-scale RDMA acceleration capability on the cloud. It can improve the efficiency of large-scale distributed computing and communication significantly and expand dynamically with the cluster scale of Alibaba Cloud. It can build China's largest RDMA distributed computing network easily Apsara conference 2022.

Apsara conference 2022 with the exponential expansion of Internet data volume, the scale of distributed computing in data centers is getting larger, and the overhead of large-scale Data Transmission Service among large-scale clusters is also increasing. Compared with traditional TCP networks, elastic RDMA can reduce the network communication latency caused by large-scale cluster network interconnection significantly, improve the performance and cost-effectiveness of distributed computing substantially, and help build larger-scale distributed computing applications on the cloud that support larger data volumes Apsara conference 2022.

On October 19, 2021, at the 2022 Apsara Conference, Zhang Jianfeng, President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, announced that T-Head has made the XuanTie RISC-V series processors open-source and opened a series of tools and system software. This is the global first full-stack open-source of the series processors and basic software. It will promote the maturity of RISC-V architecture, help RISC-V software and hardware technologies accelerate the fusion and development, and drive innovation to implement Apsara conference 2022.

In the AIoT era, RISC-V architecture is expected to become the widely used CPU architecture in the next generation after Intel x86 and ARM due to its open and flexible features. However, the current RISC-V architecture faces problems, such as application fragmentation, low development efficiency, and difficulty adapting software and hardware. The software and hardware ecosystem is not mature yet Apsara conference 2022.

Apsara conference 2022 XuanTie RISC-V series processors adopt self-developed technology to cover various scenarios ranging from low power consumption to high performance scenarios. They support operating systems, such as AliOS, FreeRTOS, RT-Thread, Linux, and Android. They have been applied to microcontrollers, industrial control, intelligent household electrical appliances, smart grid, image processing, artificial intelligence, multimedia, and automotive electronics. Recently, XuanTie 910 gained Android compatibility for the first time, expanding the vision of RISC-V architecture for an open ecosystem Apsara conference 2022.

Currently, the XuanTie series processors have shipped more than 2.5 billion cores to more than 150 customers and more than 500 authorizations, becoming the homegrown CPU with the largest application scale in China.

Apsara conference 2022 Panjiu server series adopts a flexible modular design that can achieve compute and storage separation, including high-performance computing series, large-scale storage series, and high-performance storage series. It has air-cooled and liquid-cooled modes and normalized motherboards. The design of the whole cabinet improves the delivery efficiency by 50% and is more in line with the next-generation cloud-native system architecture. It can play an important role in large-scale transactions, online trades, and cloud-native application scenarios.

Apsara conference 2022 Panjiu series uses software and hardware fusion to achieve extreme performance based on the characteristics of containerization, microservices, and continuous delivery in the cloud-native era. It meets the performance and stability mechanism requirements of cloud-native innovative development combined with the self-developed MOC, FIC, AliFPGA, and safety and security intelligence center. In terms of computing, virtualization and OVS transmission performance are industry-leading. In terms of storage, millions of IOPS and storage latency can be reduced significantly. In terms of security, chip-level hardware encryption is supported Apsara conference 2022.