NASDAQ is positioning itself as the world’s first publicly listed company to use blockchain technology, and its CEO says Meta will be one of a handful using it worldwide by 2022. Its software can process up to 1 trillion operations per second – or Tops 300 times faster than Google’s previous fastest machine.
The “cray supercomputer” is a computer designed by Cray Inc. which will be the fastest worldwide by mid-2022.
Meta has added its supercomputers to the roster of IT businesses. Furthermore, the corporation says that by mid-2022, its supercomputer will be the fastest in the world.
The AI Research Cluster, or RSC, will be used to train a variety of systems across Meta’s companies, including content moderation algorithms to identify hate speech on its platforms, among other things. The RSC will also be utilized to create Metaverse experiences.
The growing number of AI supercomputers dedicated to training machine learning systems demonstrates the importance of AI research to firms like Microsoft, Nvidia, and now Meta.
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Meta AI, the company’s in-house AI research group, released some figures comparing the AI RSC to their current V100-based clusters in an announcement.
When it comes to Nvidia NCCL collectives, the computer is said to be 20 times quicker than their existing V100-based production clusters, nine times faster than their v100-based research clusters, and three times faster for large-scale projects NLP processes.
For communication, these AI supercomputers integrate several GPUs into computation nodes linked by a high-performance network. The RSC now has 760 Nvidia DGX A100 computing nodes with a total of 6080 GPUs. In addition, the supercomputer will get 175 petabytes of Pure Storage. In Penguin Computing Altus systems, FlashArray has its own storage tier, as well as 46 petabytes of cache storage and 10 petabytes of Pure Storage FlashBlade.
Phase 1 ideas for the AI RSC | Source: Meta
The RSC’s ultimate objective is to have 16000 GPUs serving as endpoints. With ambitions to grow up to 1 exabyte, the caching and storage system can provide 16TB/s of training data.
Finally, the RSC is maintained fully disconnected from the internet, with no direct incoming or outgoing connections. Furthermore, traffic is limited to Meta’s production data centers. End-to-end encryption is used along the data chain, from storage systems to GPUs, and the data is subjected to a privacy review procedure before being fed into RSC to guarantee correct data anonymization.
The infrastructure is up and operating, but it is still in the early stages of development. The AI RSC will compute at roughly five exaflops by the conclusion of the second phase, according to Meta. All expansion plans will be carried out until 2022.
While they’re busy constructing the world’s fastest AI supercomputer, a “software fault” in Facebook’s free version ended up costing customers an estimated $7.8 million by July 2021, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
Facebook has worked with telecom carriers in poor nations to give users with free access to the site. However, they were still charged as a result of the malfunction. The firm seems to be aware of the problem and is looking into it.
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