Highlights of the 2023 Financial Industry Cloud‑Native Green Computing Development Forum

Cloud‑native technology, with its efficient compute coordination, on‑demand and measurable services, offers the current optimal solution for financial digital transformation, providing agile, stable, and reliable performance that strengthens the compute foundation for financial institutions. Recently, six ministries, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the People's Bank of China, issued the "Action Plan for High‑Quality Development of Compute Infrastructure," promoting green, low‑carbon compute and higher utilization of cloud resources.

Against this backdrop, China Financial Computer magazine and Ant Group jointly hosted the "2023 Financial Industry Cloud‑Native Green Computing Development Forum" on October 25, attended in person by technical experts from eleven financial institutions.

Experts from Agricultural Bank, China Merchants Bank, Minsheng Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank presented speeches based on their own exploration and practice. Their talks covered adapting distributed technology stacks, multi‑site and multi‑center deployments, hybrid resource deployment, resource utilization grading and capability building, container cloud platform construction, elastic scaling, intelligent operations monitoring and issue handling, resource pool fragmentation processing, online‑offline business system tuning, network policy and load‑balancing implementation, and Serverless practices.

Ant Group Technology Department General Manager and Green Computing Lead Huang Ting delivered a keynote titled "Green Computing Promotes High‑Quality Compute Development," emphasizing that green computing requires hardware‑software co‑design to maximize compute value. He outlined six technical pathways: establishing a green metric system for quantifiable business carbon emissions; employing mixed‑resource scheduling to heavily reuse physical machines; using secure containers for application isolation; applying intelligent capacity techniques for precise resource prediction; leveraging Serverless to minimize resource scheduling units; and adopting Continuous Profiling for real‑time performance optimization. Huang stressed the need for deep collaboration among industry, academia, research, and application to build a systematic green‑computing ecosystem.

Forum participants exchanged ideas on green computing, cost reduction, and efficiency, discussing practical applications of secure containers, hybrid deployments, and elastic scaling, and identified many sub‑topics that require further exploration and deepening.

This article is reprinted from the 2023 Issue 11 of China Financial Computer, authored by reporter Zhang Zhi.