Arm Technology took the lead in writing and jointly released the "Green Computing Industry Development White Paper" with GCC

July 27, 2022 - Today, the "Green Computing Industry Alliance White Paper and Standard Results Release Conference" hosted by the Green Computing Industry Alliance (GCC) came to an end in Beijing. The conference released two white papers and 10 core standards of the Green Computing Industry Alliance, and authoritatively interpreted 7 typical scenario evaluation methods. As the lead author of the "Green Computing Industry Development White Paper", Arm Technology (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Arm Technology") was invited to attend and participate in the "Results Release Ceremony" of the conference. Wang Junchao, Director of Standards and Security of Arm Technology, brought a detailed interpretation of the "Green Computing Industry Development White Paper".

Figure 1: Green Computing Industry Alliance releases two white papers and 10 core standards

This conference was hosted by the Green Computing Industry Alliance (GCC), co-organized by the China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI) and the China Electronics Industry Standardization Association (CESA), and the main participating units of the alliance's achievements, such as Arm Technology, were invited to attend as co-publishing units. The conference focused on the current status and trends of industrial development, comprehensively analyzed the cutting-edge technologies of the computing industry, and brought together excellent application cases in key industries, in order to continuously promote the innovation of green computing technology and the prosperity and development of the industrial ecosystem.

Jointly released an authoritative industry report with GCC to accelerate the high-quality development of the green computing industry

In recent years, the widespread application of new technologies such as cloud computing, AI, 5G, and the Internet of Things has led to an exponential growth in Internet traffic demand and data center workloads. A single computing architecture cannot meet the needs of high-speed networks and massive data processing. Diversified loads and applications require the construction of a data-centric heterogeneous computing system. At the same time, macro goals such as "dual carbon" require controlling power consumption growth while increasing computing power, and the market demand for high-efficiency, low-cost, and low-energy green computing is becoming increasingly strong.

Green computing is based on the open-licensed ArmⓇ processor technology. Arm processor technology has gradually become a new standard for computing infrastructure due to its energy-saving and security features, and has been deployed more and more widely in many application scenarios. In order to better present the evolution of green computing technology and the development of the industry, provide reference and guidance for the industry and users, and promote the accelerated implementation of the industry, GCC and its member units jointly compiled the "Green Computing Industry Development White Paper", with Arm Technology participating in the compilation as the lead unit.

Figure 2: White Paper on the Development of Green Computing Industry

Starting from the needs of the Internet and data centers, the white paper introduces the evolution trend of green computing technology, sorts out the industry and ecological progress of basic hardware, basic software and its ecological development and application landing, and explains the single-core performance improvement, multi-core heterogeneous interconnection, performance and power consumption balance, and computing security and trustworthiness of the latest Arm architecture. In addition, the white paper brings together excellent application cases in key industries such as energy and electricity to provide reference and guidance for the industry and users.

In this regard, Wang Junchao said in his keynote speech on the interpretation of the "White Paper on the Development of Green Computing Industry": "In recent years, we have witnessed the development of the computing industry towards strong performance, high energy efficiency, and greater security. As the vice chairman unit of GCC and a deep participant in the green computing industry, Arm Technology hopes to help partners gain insight into technology evolution trends and market environment changes by taking the lead in compiling this report, further expand the application areas of green computing products, and promote the innovation and development of green computing core technologies and the continuous growth of the industrial ecosystem."

Figure 3: Wang Junchao, Director of Standards and Security at ARM Technology, interprets the "White Paper on the Development of the Green Computing Industry" on site

Participated in the joint drafting of 8 core standards and 7 test methods, leading the trend of green computing technology

In addition to releasing two white papers, "Green Computing Industry Development White Paper" and "Computing Product Serviceability Index System White Paper", this conference also released 10 core standards of the Green Computing Industry Alliance, covering firmware, typical application scenario evaluation of the computing industry, network security ecology, etc. In addition, the event also provided a detailed interpretation of seven server application scenario performance testing methods, including "Server Application Scenario Performance Testing Method Virtualization" and "Server Application Scenario Performance Testing Method Distributed Storage".

As one of the main drafting units, ARM Technology participated in the formulation of eight alliance core standards, including "Green Computing Server Basic Input Output System (BIOS) Test Method", "Green Computing Server Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) Test Method", and "Green Computing Solution Basic Security Capability Requirements", and participated in the compilation of all seven server application scenario performance test methods.

Figure 4: 7 server application scenario performance testing methods

As a founding member of the Green Computing Alliance (GCC), Arm Technology has been committed to building a prosperous green computing ecosystem. Over the years, it has carried out in-depth exchanges and cooperation with GCC in standard setting, technology promotion, industrial innovation, and ecological collaboration, and has achieved fruitful results. With rich ecological resources and technological advantages, Arm Technology has vigorously built a self-developed product matrix that meets the "global standards and local innovations", and recently released its self-developed new generation "Star" STAR-MC2 automotive-grade embedded processor and the new "Linglong" V6/V8 video processor, providing diversified product solutions for AIoT, automotive electronics, mobile terminals, infrastructure and other fields, and enabling local industry innovation; on the other hand, by continuously introducing Arm's latest architecture technology, it actively expands the Arm industry ecosystem to meet the needs of domestic companies to develop globally competitive products and support the development of China's intelligent computing industry.

In the future, Arm Technology will rely on the mature Arm technology ecosystem and self-developed IP product matrix, and work with partners to further promote the rapid development of the green computing industry through open source co-construction, collaborative innovation, and standard construction, and win a new era of green computing together.