China launched its first optoelectronic fusion deterministic new computing network infrastructure in Nanjing City of Jiangsu Province in the east on Friday.
The development of the computing network infrastructure was led by the Future Network Innovation Team of Purple Mountain Laboratory. And it has broken through the bottlenecks of optoelectronic signal separation, high cost, high energy consumption, and low efficiency that all bedeviled the traditional network architecture.
"The first breakthrough was in key theories and algorithms, and the second achievement was that the transformation of these advanced theories and algorithms into a real product can serve the real economy," said Tao Gaofeng, vice president of Jiangsu Future Network Group.
The project is the first major national scientific and technological infrastructure in China's communications and information sector and has been included in the national strategic scientific and technological initiatives under the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025).
It is poised to be applied in fields such as intelligent manufacturing, smart cities, smart energy, and smart governance, offering a robust network ecosystem that enables AI to better serve a wide range of industries.
"We aim to build a network that cheaply, efficiently and securely connects enterprises and data, enabling them to train foundational models. On the other hand, once trained, these foundational models will be used to empower various industries," said Liu Yunjie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and leader of the Future Network Innovation Team at Purple Mountain Laboratory.
The first phase of the project has covered nine cities in China, forming a huge pool of computing resources.
New computing network infrastructure to empower multitude of industries
