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Alibaba Cloud wins China Patent Gold Award: Solving the problem of ultra-large-scale intelligent computing power scheduling in the AI ​​era

On November 6, the 26th China Patent Awards Ceremony was held in Wuxi. The patent "A User Request Processing Method and Device" submitted by Alibaba Cloud won the China Patent Gold Award. This was the only cloud vendor to win the gold award this year. This patented technology can dynamically sense changes in computing power demand in real time, especially in response to the violent demand tides in the Internet and AI era, and achieves on-demand allocation, on-demand scaling, and safe supply of ultra-large-scale intelligent computing power—it can sustain it during peak times, recover it during troughs, and securely isolate multiple tenants. The China Patent Award is jointly selected by the State Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization. It is the highest honor in the field of patents in my country. There are no more than 30 invention patent gold awards in each national selection. It is a national-level authoritative certification of corporate innovation capabilities and patent industrialization value. At present, Alibaba Cloud has deployed more than 10,000 patents around the world, covering more than ten countries and regions, focusing on core technology fields such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, large models and chips. Solve three major problems in ultra-large-scale intelligent computing power scheduling in the AI ​​era. Ultra-large-scale intelligent computing power clusters in the AI ​​era are faced with violent demand tides: sudden traffic, training peaks, and inference peaks are intertwined and superimposed, continuously testing the limits of computing power elasticity. Between peaks and valleys, the demand for computing power can vary hundreds of times - according to peak configuration, a large number of resources will be idle under normal conditions; according to daily configuration, when the peak comes, there will be risks of insufficient capacity and unstable service. Therefore, the elastic unification of heterogeneous computing power, instantaneous response to dynamic loads, and safe isolation in a multi-tenant environment have become the three core challenges of ultra-large-scale computing power in the AI ​​era. The core invention of Alibaba Cloud's patent is a new way of processing user requests. Traditional solutions rely on pre-allocating resources and passively waiting for requests, resulting in a long-term mismatch between resource configuration and real load. However, the method proposed by this patent can dynamically sense demand changes in real time and intelligently match requests with the underlying heterogeneous computing power.

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Sports

Trump’s pathetic Dana White gambit could not mask his midterm humiliation | Howard Bryant

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Entertainment

U2: Carnaval de Luz review – rousing, restorative rock from a band ready to take on the world again

(Island) On their first album of new songs in nearly a decade, even earnest Bono-isms carry weight amid music that is impassioned and rejuvenated Even artists who enjoy a seemingly unstoppable imperial period eventually seem to encounter spells of turbulence when the creative planets no longer align – which has been the story of U2’s last 20 years. Try as they might, nothing has matched their earlier albums – especially that mostly uninterrupted golden run from their 1980 debut Boy to 90s benchmarks Achtung Baby and Zooropa. They’ve tried going more pop, becoming more experimental, touring 198

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Crime pays: how Grand Theft Auto became a cultural colossus

Ever since it crashed on to PC and consoles in the late 90s, GTA has been tearing up the game-making rulebook. We explore how its cultural references, rebel spirit and sprawling sense of freedom make it a definitive work of art In the 00s, when the Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games revealed a new project, video game writers from all over the UK would make the journey to the company’s office in London. They would be ushered one by one into a darkened room to sit facing an enormous TV. There would be a dish of sweets on a low bench in front of them but, in the reverential hush that desce

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