Session ID: HKG18-319 Session Name: HKG18-319 - Dr. Tao Wang (GCC): Step into Green Computing Cornsortium Speaker: Not Available Track: LEG;Ecosystem Day ★ Session Summary ★ As the earliest industry alliance based on ARM64, GCC is working on promoting the development of the green computing industry, conforming to the technological development trend of open source SW and open HW and bringing together the advanced global industrial chain resources. Linaro Hongkong Connect would be a good opportunity to introduce GCC to the industry, including establishment process, core work objectives and tasks, organizational structure and related business progress. We are looking forward to enhance the cooperation between GCC and Linaro in the future. --------------------------------------------------- ★ Resources ★ Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-319/ Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-319.pdf Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-319.mp4 --------------------------------------------------- ★ Event Details ★ Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18) 19-23 March 2018 Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong --------------------------------------------------- Keyword: LEG;Ecosystem Day 'http://www.linaro.org' 'http://connect.linaro.org' --------------------------------------------------- Follow us on Social Media https://www.facebook.com/LinaroOrg https://www.youtube.com/user/linaroorg?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.linkedin.com/company/1026961

1. Step into
Green Computing Consortium
Tao Wang
March 21, 2018

2. Diversified Workload and Moore‘s Law
Failure Opened Opportunity for ARM
PC age
Many architectures flourishing
Mobile Internet age
New opportunity for major arch
Cloud Computing age
Seeking breakthrough in new direction
Power PA-RISC
Alpha
SPARC
Itanium
Moto 68K
X86
MIPS
PPC
ARM
Z
Power
X86
MIPSARM
High
performance
server
PC & Server
SoC/Mobile/
Consumer DSP
NP
RISC to IA
IA to ARM
Open, good
ecosystem
Multi-Core
Heterogeneous
Integration
Learning ARM to be
prosperous again
Partly open
Closed
architecture
The number of cores
has increased
significantly . Cache
Coherent Interconnect.
CPU+GPGPU+FPGA+
……
 Memory system refactoring,
CPU / MEM depth integration
 Memory closer to computing
RISCvsCISC

3. Diversified Workload and Moore‘s Law
Failure Opened Opportunity for ARM
(cont.)
 Diversified workload in Cloud computing, promoting new trend in data center,
including multi-core, heterogeneous and integration, which put forward a
huge demand for the next generation of computing
 Moore's Law failed after 7nm process, the cost drastically increasing brought a
significant opportunity for ARM. The industry began to start

4. Common Idea Gathered a Group
● Server manufacturers who has invested the chip and system, expect
the commercial interests from the good development of ARM industry
● MIIT represent for Chinese Government, need a healthier computing
industry with higher energy efficiency products and system
● Those, are founding member of GCC

5. 2015 Nov. in Beijing, First Round Table
Meeting● Core results
○ 18 participating companies, universities and academic
institutes reached the consensus to found Green Computing
industry alliance
● Alliance mission
○ Conforming to the ICT industry trends of open source
software and open hardware, converging the advanced
resources from global ecosystem, and providing enterprises
with easier use and manageable green energy-efficient
products based on the ARM computing chipsets and other
open technologies.
● Confirmed follow-up planning and rhythm
● Followed with monthly meeting:
○ Alliance target
○ Bylaw

6. 2016 Feb. Beijing, Preparation Meeting
for Final Found Up
● Core result
○ Reached consensus on OpenGCC alliance direction
● Mei Hong, Academician of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences , the chairman of the
board,
● Main target of alliance: to improve green
industry
● Discussed alliance bylaw and IPR policy
● Initiated the discussion about work
direction

7. Alliance Idea ： 5 Areas to Establish the
Ecosystem
● Based on advanced scenario , bidirectional driving Pilot Programs and
the SW ecosystem(including business SW and Open Source SW)
● Standards: to ensure the industry consistency
● Talent development: training program to ensure the sustainable
development of green computing industry
③Open Source SW ② Business SW
Scenario ②Scenario① Scenario n
①Pilot Programs
④Interface standardsHW
OS
Tool chain& Library
Database
Advanced
scenarios
Application
⑤Talent Development

8. Scope of GCC ① Windows manages independent
system : fit for all Windows scenario
through WinDK adaption
② Cooperation between Chip
vendors （ Q/Cavium/H ） and
system vendors
 3 Chip vendors need unified BIOS
and driver
 Avoid repeating work on tool chain
③ In Linaro ， align Linux Kernel and
part of Tool Chain through ERP
④ Linux OS business version, graphic
needs GPU support
 RedHat 、 Ubuntu 、 SUSE
 GPU ： AMD/Nvidia
⑤ Database adaption
⑥ Build Midware and App through
TestBed
Application
Midware
Database
OS
Host
Chips
Driver
BIOS
Tool chain
Performa
nce/debu
gging tool
Compiler
debugger
Monitor
Maintain
Backup
tool
Linux
 RedHat
 Ubuntu
 SUSE
Oracle/SAP
Linux Kernel
Windows Server
SQLServer
Kernel
OpenFlow/OpenStack/OpenJDK /Java
Apache/nginx/MySQL/PHP/Hadoop
Qualcomm Cavium Hisilicon
UEFI/ACPI
Plinth
UEFI/ACPI
WinDK
HP
①
②
③
④
⑤
②’③’
Dell 联想 HW……
⑥

9. 2016 Apr. Beijing, Formally Launched
● 4 levels of member:
Platinum, Golden, Silver and
Regular (Academy and User)
● 17 founding members
● Website:
Http://www.openGCC.org;
Wechat public account“ 绿色
计算产业联盟”
● Based in China with global
cooperation

10. Organizational Structure and Work Scope
Technical
committee
Secretariat
Standards &
Test
IPR
System
Enabling
Talent
Development
Board of
Directors
Pilot Program
General Meeting of
Members
Advisory
Committee

11. Organizational Structure and Work Scope
(cont.)● Secretariat
○ Permanent dept which responsible for organization, operation and working group
support
● Standards and Test
○ Define GCC technology standards and test spec, and conduct test and validation to
avoid industry split
● System Enabling
○ Cooperate with Linaro to promote the system enablement via R&D and tool
development
● Pilot Program
○ Promote application demonstrations for both OTT and enterprise customers to drive
ecosystem build-up
● IPR
○ Manage IPR related issues, case by case
● Talent Development
○ Establish the talent development programs in academy to ensure the sustainable
development of green computing industry

12. Fruitful Results after 1 Year Operation
 19 members newly added, total 36 （ by Feb. 2018 ）
 Finished“Green Computing Standards Whitepaper”and plan to release at
the World Internet Conference in 2017 Dec
 Under building: ARM-based green computing research and test
platform(CESI), two testbeds
 Good cooperation to promote ARM ecosystem: key Linux OS released business
version
 More worked to do: GPU adaptation, Platform building, Application
enrichment

13. Fruitful Results after 1 Year Operation
(cont.)

14. Deep and Extensive Cooperation to
Promote Green Computing Industry in the
Future
Research and development collaboration
-- GCC Developer Cloud (ERP based) initial setup ready to grow GCC SW ecosystem
Version release collaboration
Technical seminar synergy

15. Thank You
Tao Wang
March 21, 2018