Inspur Information Zhang Dong: In the era of diverse computing power, the key to developing operating systems is the collaboration of software and hardware across the entire machine

[Global Network Science and Technology Comprehensive Report] With the acceleration of global Digital transformation, the digital economy has become the main engine of economic growth. The continuous construction of emerging infrastructure, represented by 5G and intelligent computing center, continues to promote the development of servers and server operating systems in China

[Global Network Science and Technology Comprehensive Report] With the acceleration of global Digital transformation, the digital economy has become the main engine of economic growth. The continuous construction of emerging infrastructure, represented by 5G and intelligent computing center, continues to promote the development of servers and server operating systems in China. After decades of exploration, a new pattern of China's server operating system industry has gradually taken shape, and a large number of domestic server operating systems are flourishing and rapidly rising.

Recently, Inspur Information officially released the server operating system KOS. It is understood that this is a "server operating system for the era of intelligent computing", based on KOS cloud native, artificial intelligence, and virtualization, which has been enhanced in development efficiency, operational efficiency, and scalability.

Our basic software and system software have always had an operating system, but we have not released the operating system as an independent product in the general market, "said Zhang Dong, Vice President of Inspur Information, "Inspur Information put forward the technical development route of" application oriented, system design centered, multi heterogeneous computing power integration, software hardware collaborative optimization ". Software, especially basic software products, is the key link to realize this Technology roadmap."

In a sense, KOS has supplemented the last piece of "puzzle" of Inspur Information in basic and system software, and the entire product layout is also more complete.

At present, with the rapid development of AI, Big data, Internet of Things and other technologies, users' computing scenarios are more diverse, and computing types are more complex. The coexistence of multiple CPUs and AIPUs has become a long-term trend, which will significantly increase the complexity of hardware management. However, this also provides more application scenarios for server operating system innovation, and support for diverse and heterogeneous computing power will become a fundamental feature in winning the market and users. In this field, Inspur Information maintains cooperative relationships with almost all upstream manufacturers, which also makes KOS faster in supporting and responding to new hardware features. For example, KOS can optimize the hardware and software collaboration in CXL memory and adapt to new processor features earlier. This ecological advantage is clearly attractive to users, and it is also beneficial for KOS to quickly scale up.

At the same time, in terms of improving user experience, KOS has been fully applied to infrastructure software products of Inspur Information, and has completed in-depth optimization with super integrated all-in-one machine, Big data all-in-one machine, distributed storage, centralized storage and other products to provide users with excellent overall experience. At present, KOS has been fully pre installed in mainstream models of Inspur Information, greatly reducing the cost of on-site installation and compatibility adaptation.

In terms of ecological construction, as far as KOS is concerned, Inspur Information aims to improve the ecosystem of the Dragon Lizard community, increase the number of developers and download scale, and further strengthen the ecological construction of partners based on a comprehensive product line covering cloud, data, edge, and super, as well as a strong upstream and downstream partner ecosystem. At present, KOS has completed compatibility certification with over 100 servers, over 350 mainstream CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, network cards, storage, and network devices, achieving full coverage of mainstream databases, middleware, virtualization, and containers; At the same time, KOS also provides a programming model and efficient development library with heterogeneous computing power, providing a unified development interface and runtime support for the upper layer, shielding the differences in the lower layer calculations, and simplifying the use of various general computing devices and specialized acceleration devices for the upper layer business.

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