Secret research base of China's most mysterious: Huawei-Huawei-2012 lab IT information
Huawei's "2012 Lab" is Huawei's overall research organization, said ren zhengfei, the laboratory's name comes from watching the 2012 movie fantasy, he thinks the next explosion will be the same as the digital flood that Huawei wants to survive in the future development will have to construct your own "Noah's Ark".
2012 Lab's main research directions are a new generation of communications, cloud computing, audio and video analysis, data mining, and machine learning. Mainly for the future development direction of 5-10. Huawei, according to official data, in 2015, investment in research and development of 59.6 billion yuan, 15.1% of the total sales revenue in 2015, nearly a decade, Huawei has invested more than 240 billion yuan in research and development.
2012 lab secondary sector includes: hardware engineering, Hass, central research and Development Center, Central software. Today focuses on Huawei rarely open to the public, but in 2012 research departments lab has a very high strategic position.
Noah's Ark Labs
Huawei's "Noah's Ark laboratories" primarily revolves around artificial intelligence research, set up at the Hong Kong Science Park, Lab Director for the Hong Kong University Professor and hire scientists engaged in basic research in all regions of the world.
It consists of the following five components:
Natural language processing and information retrieval services
Focus on how seamless and natural language machine to communicate with people, social data and text mining in valuable information.
Large scale data mining and machine learning
The Department is mainly focused on developing highly scalable and effectiveness of data mining and machine learning algorithms, including the development of data mining system.
Social media and mobile sectors
The Department focuses on developing the most advanced algorithms and the use of social media, social networks, and mobile data system for self-learning research and development, and gain insight from your social network data.
Human-computer interaction system
The sector's main role is to help people better understand how to develop human-computer interaction smoother system, thus making human-computer communication has become more natural and easy. Meanwhile, the Department is also responsible for the development of intelligent systems.
Machine learning Department
Through modeling and mathematical theory to the study of man-machine learning and adaptive capacity.
Scientists names lab
At present "2012 Lab" there are many world renowned scientist or mathematician named mysterious Labs, include Shannon Labs, Gaussian, Sheard laboratory, the laboratory of Gaussian laboratory laboratory, Turing Labs, Euler, and so on.
Shannon laboratories : the laboratory is based on data from large high-throughput computing HTC (High Throughput Computing) research into early, already in the data processing systems architecture, operating systems, hardware and software, new programming and business application benchmarks are forming a profound technical accumulation. Intelligent ICT industry development trend for the company reserve cognitive-related key technologies, algorithms and related products to provide intelligence services and intelligence, information storage, distributed computing, software-defined direction, such as keeping up with industry-leading edge research.
Gaussian laboratory : to build industry-leading database management systems.
Sheard lab : network security, endpoint security, virtualization security, cryptographic algorithm as the main research directions of the laboratory.
Euler's laboratory : their own operating system research and Development Center.
Turing Labs : embedded processor core architecture Research Department.
International research centers
In addition, the "2012 Lab" in Europe, India and the United States, and Russia, and Canada, and Japan established 8 important overseas Institute, Huawei has also invested heavily in Shenzhen this year 10 Foundation Research Institute. European Institute Institute plays an important role in the world, because it is one of the mathematical Center of Huawei two, heavyweight 5G research team. Ren zhengfei, concluded that Huawei's success is due to the method in Europe.
Huawei in Europe has two schema type of disruptive innovation: distributed base station and SingleRAN,SingleRAN design principle is realized in a Cabinet 2G, 3G, 4G, fusion of the three wireless communications standard, theoretically could save half of the construction cost for the customer. Huawei's rivals have tried to imitate, but so far no substantive breakthrough, and behind this breakthrough relies on communication systems integration extremely complex mathematical operations. Russia and France the Institute's core research is mathematical, because the mathematical strength of the two countries respectively ranked first and second in the world. And as early as 2012 future of Huawei innovation: ren replied "2012 Lab" scientists question 16 article, either in the article are non-speaking, Huawei's advantage lies in mathematical logic, not physical.
France Institute
On June 14 of this year, Huawei announced France Institute of mathematics was founded. To dig France based mathematical resources dedicated to communications physical layer, network layer, distributed and parallel computing, data storage and other basic algorithms, long focused on strategic projects such as 5G and short term product, complete the global framework of distributed algorithm design. Huawei also established mathematics in Paris, aesthetics, domestic terminal and wireless standard four research and development centers. The establishment of Huawei Managing Director Mr Xu said Huawei had walked into the ' no man's land ', no guide, no followers, and there is a lot of uncertainty in the future.
Russia Research Institute
Huawei Russia Research Institute independent of the European Institute, the Institute has a huge breakthrough in the 3G and 2G levels. Russia Institute includes 7 "centres of competence" to rally the local talents in the field of basic algorithms. These 7 centres of competence are: Nonlinear competence centre, algorithm engineering competence center, optimization competency Center, channel encoding and decoding ability Center, source coding and decoding ability Center, Center for data analysis, parallel programming competence centre.
Canada Institute
Founded in the end of 2008, the Canada Institute for 5G research on the core competence center, located in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and Waterloo in four cities, with more than more than 400 researchers.
Japan Research Institute
Japan Research Institute mainly engaged in materials research.
India Institute of
India Research Institute focused on software delivery.
Innovator's dilemma
"2012 Lab" as its research base, which not only represents the domestic top level, while global clout, but ren zhengfei is still deep concern. In May this year, ren zhengfei, Huawei is actually mentioned a construction businessman, even at the level of innovation, innovation actually works, rather than in the area of technology innovation, Huawei should be in the basic research efforts. In the wake of the national technology innovation Conference, ren said the following statements:
Huawei now are stuck in engineering mathematics, physics algorithms in engineering science and innovation level, not yet into basic research. As gradually close to Shannon's theorem, limits of Moore, and high-flow, low-delay theory has not been created, Huawei was unknown, find my way. Huawei has on the Trek.
揭秘中国最神秘研究基地：华为2012实验室 - 华为 - IT资讯
华为的“2012实验室”是华为的总研究组织，据称，该实验室的名字来自于任正非在观看《2012》电影后的畅想，他认为未来信息爆炸会像数字洪水一样，华为要想在未来生存发展就得构造自己的“诺亚方舟”。
2012实验室的主要研究的方向有新一代通信、云计算、音频视频分析、数据挖掘、机器学习等。主要面向的是未来5-10年的发展方向。华为官方数据显示，2015年，华为研发投入为596亿元人民币，占2015年销售收入的15.1%，近十年来，华为已经在研发方面投入了超过2400亿元人民币。
2012实验室的二级部门包括：中央硬件工程学院、海思、研发能力中心、中央软件院。今天着重讲述华为很少对外公开，但在2012实验室里有着极高战略地位的研究部门。
诺亚方舟实验室
华为“诺亚方舟实验室”主要围绕人工智能展开研究，设立于香港科学园，实验室主任由香港当地大学教授出任，并聘用了全球各地区科研人员从事基础研究工作。
它由以下五大部门组成：
自然语言处理和信息检索部门
专注于如何以无缝的方式和自然语言让机器与人沟通，并从文本和社交数据中挖掘有价值信息。
大规模数据挖掘和机器学习部门
该部门主要专注于开发高扩展性和有效性的数据挖掘和机器学习算法，也包括对大数据挖掘系统的开发。
社交媒体和移动智能部门
该部门重点是发展最先进的算法和利用社交媒体、社交网络和移动数据进行自我学习的系统的研发，并从社交网络数据中获得深刻洞察。
人机交互系统部门
该部门的主要职责是，帮助人们更好的理解如何开发顺畅的人机交互系统，从而使得人机沟通变得更为自然和轻松。同时，该部门也负责开发大规模智能系统。
机器学习理论部门
通过建模和数学理论来研究人机学习和自适应能力。
科学家人名实验室
目前“2012实验室”旗下有很多以世界知名科学家或数学家命名的神秘实验室，包括香农实验室，高斯实验室、谢尔德实验室、高斯实验室、欧拉实验室、图灵实验室等。
香农实验室：该实验室在基于大数据的高通量计算HTC（High Throughput Computing）的研究投入交早，已在大数据处理硬件和软件系统架构、操作系统、新型编程方式和商务应用基准程序等方面都形成了深厚的技术积累。为公司ICT产业智能化发展趋势储备认知相关关键技术、算法，并为相关产品提供智能服务和智能特性，在信息存储、分布式计算、软件定义等方向紧跟业界前沿研究。
高斯实验室：打造业界领先的数据库管理系统。
谢尔德实验室：以网络安全、终端安全、云虚拟化安全、密码算法为主要研究方向的实验室。
欧拉实验室：自有操作系统研发中心。
图灵实验室：嵌入式处理器内核架构研究部门。
海外研究所
此外，“2012实验室”在欧洲、印度、美国、俄罗斯、加拿大、日本设立8个重要的海外研究所，今年华为还将斥巨资在深圳建立10所基础研究所。欧洲研究所在全球的研究所中有着极其重要的地位，因为它是华为两大数学中心之一，拥有5G研究的重量级团队。任正非曾总结说，华为在欧洲的成功得益于算法。
华为在欧洲有着两大架构式的颠覆性产品创新：分布式基站和SingleRAN，SingleRAN的设计原理是在一个机柜内实现2G、3G、4G三种无线通信制式的融合功能，理论上可为客户节约一半的建设成本。华为的竞争对手们曾试图模仿，但至今未有实质性突破，而这一技术突破依靠通信制式融合背后极为复杂的数学运算。而俄罗斯和法国研究所的核心研究方向就是数学，因为这两国的数学实力分别在全球排名第一和第二。而早在2012年《华为创新的未来：任正非答“2012实验室”科学家16问》一文，文中任正非说到，华为的优势在于数学逻辑，不在物理。
法国研究所
今年6月14日，华为宣布法国数学研究所成立。旨在挖掘法国基础数学资源，致力于通信物理层、网络层、分布式并行计算、数据压缩存储等基础算法研究，长期聚焦5G等战略项目和短期产品，完成分布式算法全局架构设计等。华为还在巴黎建立了数学、美学、家庭终端和无线标准四个研发中心。成立当天，华为常务董事徐文伟说到，华为已经走入‘无人区’，没有引路者，也没有跟随者，而且未来还有很多不确定性。
俄罗斯研究所
华为俄罗斯研究所独立于欧洲研究所，该研究所曾在3G和2G算法层面有着巨大突破。俄罗斯研究所包括7个“能力中心”，以此集结当地的基本算法领域人才。这7个能力中心分别是：非线性能力中心、算法工程化能力中心、最优化能力中心、信道编译码能力中心、信源编解码能力中心、大数据分析能力中心、并行编程能力中心。
加拿大研究所
成立于2008年底的加拿大研究所，是5G核心竞争力研究中心，分布于渥太华、多伦多、蒙特利尔和滑铁卢四个城市，拥有400多名研究人员。
日本研究所
日本研究所主要从事材料研究工作。
印度研究所
印度研究所则专注于软件交付。
创新者的窘境
“2012实验室”作为华为的研究基地，其不仅代表着国内最顶级的研究水平，同时在全球也着巨大影响力，但任正非仍旧对此存在深深的担忧。今年5月，任正非提到华为实际上是个工程商人，即使在创新这个层面，其实还是工程领域的创新，而不是在技术理论领域创新，华为应该在基础研究上下功夫。而在之后的全国科技创新大会上，任正非说出以下言论：
华为现在的水平尚停留在工程数学、物理算法等工程科学的创新层面，尚未真正进入基础理论研究。随着逐步逼近香农定理、摩尔定律的极限，而对大流量、低时延的理论还未创造出来，华为已感到前途茫茫，找不到方向。华为已前进在迷航中。