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SHANGHAI, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

Huawei held the Computing Industry Basic Software Summit in Shanghai,

demonstrating the achievements made after the launch of the open source basic

software projects. A basic ecosystem has been established around openEuler,

openGauss, openLooKeng, and MindSpore.

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(Jiang Dayong, Vice President of Huawei Kunpeng Computing Business, delivering

a keynote speech)

Jiang Dayong introduced Huawei's basic software strategy, including software

and hardware full-stack innovation, as well as how open source has accelerated

innovation to drive the basic software industry forward.

Four Basic Software Projects Power Innovation of Open Source Communities

While hardware provides the foundation of computing power, basic software helps

unleash the potential, and application software creates tangible value for end

users. Innovation will gain speeds when a virtuous cycle is formed among

hardware vendors, basic software vendors, application software vendors, system

developers, software developers, and users.

Open source software is an important part of Huawei's computing ecosystem

strategy. Huawei values open hardware, open source software, and partner

enablement. By leading open source initiatives, contributing, and enabling

business partners, Huawei supports the technical software ecosystem with

continuous innovation.

In terms of community contributions, Huawei ranks No. 2 globally in the latest

Linux Kernel 5.8 release. Huawei leads four open source projects: openEuler, openGauss,

openLooKeng, and MindSpore, and has completed continuous integration with more than

40 mainstream communities. By contributing to upstream communities  for mainstream

scenarios, Huawei enables 80% of key communities to provide native  support for Kunpeng.

In this way, ARM developers can use these open source components  easily. Such efforts

all help to lay a solid groundwork for full-stack hardware and software collaboration.

Hardware is the basis of the entire ecosystem, and operating systems are the

basis of software. openEuler officially went open source on December 31, 2019,

and the 20.03 Long-Term Support (LTS) version was released in March 2020. After

nine months of operation, the openEuler community has attracted more than 2000

contributors, set up 70 special interest groups (SIGs), and engaged more than

60 leading enterprises in China. Six top operating system vendors in China have

joined the community and released commercial versions.

The innovation version, openEuler 20.09, will also be officially released on

September 30, 2020. The release features 1+8: one kernel plus eight innovation

projects, covering multi-core acceleration, iSula2.0 lightweight VM, StratoVirt

cloud native container, BiSheng JDK, Compass CI, A-Tune intelligent tuning

tool, UKUI desktop, secGear precision computing framework, and IMA integrity

measurement architecture. The innovative 1+8 architecture makes openEuler the

most vibrant open source community.

Databases are the gist of basic software and the core of customers' business

systems. There is a gap between traditional open source databases and enterprise

application expectation in terms of performance, availability, and security.

Huawei openGauss is positioned as an enterprise-grade open source database.

Huawei closely works with partners to rapidly release commercial versions,

meeting industry customers' requirements for high performance, reliability, and

converged business processing. openGauss officially went open source on June

30, 2020, focusing on performance optimized for Kunpeng. Based on 2-socket

Kunpeng servers, openGauss delivers up to 1.5 million tpmC, 50% higher than

that of industry's mainstream products. In just three months, six partners have

released commercial versions of openGauss. These partners also help to advance

the commercial use of openGauss.

openLooKeng aims to power data analytics with the ultimate simplicity, enabling

users to harness big data with the ease of database usage. Huawei will continue

efforts in building unified engines, robust ecosystem, and high reliability.

openLooKeng 1.0 has been released in the community on September 23, 2020.

It implements cross-source and cross-domain high-performance interactive queries,

Virtual Data Marts (VDM), and unified data query without migration or conversion.

In addition, openLooKeng 1.0 supports diversified analysis on a unified engine,

allowing interactive analysis of hundreds of billions of data records within seconds,

and collaborative analysis of hundreds of billions of data records across multiple data centers.

Build a Complete Basic Software Ecosystem, and Cultivate Talent for the Ecosystem

To accelerate ecosystem construction, Huawei will provide various support,

including learning, build, and go-to-market support to help partners improve

their business competitiveness. After one year's efforts, Huawei has more than

1000 ISV partners and 3000 solutions in the computing space.

Partners and developers are the foundation of the ecosystem, and talent is the

future of the ecosystem. Huawei and Tsinghua University jointly released

openEuler and openGauss technical books to build the basic knowledge of

operating systems and databases into university courses. In the future, Fudan

University, Tongji University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,

and 10 other universities will provide related courses.

In addition, the technical white paper of the openEuler 20.09 version was

officially released, revealing new features and projects of the 20.09 version.

The openEuler certification program will also be officially launched in October.

30 certificates of the first batch of HCIA certification will be open to openEuler.

At the summit, leading experts from the academia, media, and commercial domains

joined Du Junping, General Manager of Huawei's Cloud & AI Open Source Business,

to discuss the relationship between open source and business.

Wu Qingbo, one of the featured guests, believed that open source and business

can only go further if they work with each other. In the education space, open

source is the best means – it features freedom and fairness.

Jiang Tao, founder of CSDN, said that business will not hinder the development

of open source, but will rather boost open source. Open source embracing

business is open source in a real sense.

Another featured guest, Han Qing's viewpoint was to define the success of an

open source project. The first step is to create value, generate social

effects, find added values in open source projects, and then produce aggregated

effects through business engagement to achieve business success.

Du Junping concluded that open source allows organizations and individuals to

innovate and create industry value in an open, fair, transparent, and secure environment.

Inspired by the mindset of fostering a sustainable, open source basic software

ecosystem Of All, By All, For All, Huawei welcomes partners, developers, and

enthusiasts to join the computing industry, working together to bring

diversified computing power to the global ecosystem for shared success.

SOURCE: Huawei

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