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TOKYO, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The jury panel at Interop Tokyo 2020 has given the Huawei Atlas 900 AI cluster

the Best of Show Award in recognition of its powerful AI computing and superior

heat dissipation. Huawei Atlas 900 is the only AI product of 2020 to receive

the Best of Show Award. The exceptional performance of Atlas 900 is a catalyst

for global AI research and drives AI application across industries.

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The Best of Show Award is the highest honor of the Interop conference. Only

products which meet the high standards of quality demanded by the Japanese IT

market are considered.

Tony Xu, President of Huawei Ascend Computing, said, "The Huawei Atlas AI

computing solution provides powerful computing and ultimate energy efficiency

for all AI scenarios across devices, the edge, and the cloud. The Atlas 900 AI

cluster provides data centers with powerful computing, high linearity, and the

best energy efficiency to accelerate data-intensive research, such as

astronomical exploration, weather prediction, oil exploration, and gene

sequencing. Research breakthroughs translate into practical benefits for people

worldwide."

Atlas 900 is the fastest AI training cluster in the world. It delivers a total

computing power of 256 to 1024 petaFLOPS at half precision (FP16), equivalent

to the computing power of 500,000 personal computers. Atlas 900 shattered the

world record on the ResNet-50 benchmark test for model training by completing

training in 59.8 seconds. Atlas 900 is the only product capable of completing

the training in under a minute. Atlas 900 has broad applications in scientific

research and business innovation for faster training of AI models with images

and videos.

Atlas 900 integrates three interfaces for high-speed interconnection: Huawei

Cache Coherence System (HCCS), PCIe 4.0, and 100G Ethernet. The Atlas 900 AI

cluster leverages the Huawei CloudEngine data center switches to work on a 100

TB/s full-mesh, non-blocking dedicated network for parameter synchronization.

The network slashes parameter synchronization latency by 10 to 70 percent to

streamline AI model training.

Heat dissipation is a critical issue for an AI training cluster with such high

computing power. That is why the Atlas 900 AI cluster adopts a groundbreaking

system for heat dissipation. It leads industry innovation with a full liquid

cooling solution and a rack-scale enclosed adiabatic design. This design

delivers tremendous heat dissipation even for single racks with power

consumption of up to 50 kW. It achieves a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of

below 1.1 for data centers, almost reaching the ideal PUE of 1.0. Atlas 900

improves over air-cooled 8-kW racks by reducing equipment room space by 79%.

Its innovative liquid cooling system provides energy-intensive, high-density,

and low-PUE deployment to drastically reduce customer TCO.

Huawei is fostering cooperation to build the Ascend computing industry with

open hardware, open source software, and partner enablement. Huawei provides

full-stack AI computing infrastructure and application solutions to power

industries with AI and create pervasive intelligence.

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About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications

technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions

across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud

services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and

organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both

competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we

create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home

life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic

research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world

forward. We have more than 194,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170

countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company wholly

owned by its employees. For more information, please visit Huawei online at

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