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In Poland, political tensions exacerbated after the attack on Krakow

While the perpetrator of the Krakow attack died of his injuries on Monday in hospital, investigators are continuing their investigations to determine the motivations of the assailant, suspected of having been fascinated by far-right ideologies. The shooting, which left at least six victims, reignites political tensions in Poland.

France 24
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Technology

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.

雷峰网
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