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The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms

October 20, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

If there is one thing that is consistently true about HPC clusters for the past thirty years and for AI training systems for the past decade, it is as workloads grow, the network becomes increasingly important – and perhaps as important as packing as much flops in a node as physically and thermally makes sense. …

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Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation

August 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …

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Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux

June 16, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and functionality to be useful. …

AI

Once Again, Meta Buys Rather Than Builds A Supercomputer

May 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

For a company that has been so enthusiastic about designing and building its own infrastructure and datacenters, Meta Platforms, the parent company to Facebook as well as WhatsApp and Instagram and one of the champions of the metaverse virtual reality a lot of us first read about in Burning Chrome, sure has not been building its own AI supercomputers lately. …

Compute

The Most Obvious Hyperscaler To Do Custom Chips Was Always Facebook

May 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Et tu, Meta?

Of all of the world’s hyperscalers and large cloud builders, only Meta Platforms, dominated by its Facebook and related social network businesses like Instagram and WhatsApp, is a pure-play hyperscaler. …

Compute

Xeon D Refresh: The Little Hyperscale Engine That Could

February 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The datacenter server has been the center of gravity for compute for decades. …

Connect

Surfing On The Ethernet Bandwidth Waves, Avoiding The Rocks

February 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Any company making any kind of box – a server, a switch, a storage array – has three battles they need to fight here in 2022, one of which they did not have to worry about very much before the coronavirus pandemic and which is of prime importance these days. …

Store

The Opposite Of Snowflake: Analytics Without The Data Warehouse

February 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

As we have pointed out before, large enterprises have to deal with a different kind of scale issue than the hyperscalers, and in many ways, the hyperscalers have it easier. …

Compute

AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver

November 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …

Connect

Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS

November 11, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. …

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