Cloud
The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered
If there is one rule of computing, is that it gets increasingly more expensive and more difficult to scale up performance within a single device or a single server node. …
AI
Facebook Sounds Opening Bell for AI Inference Hardware Makers
Gentlemen (and women), start your inference engines.
One of the world’s largest buyers of systems is entering evaluation mode for deep learning accelerators to speed services based on trained models. …
AI
Machine Learning Drives Changing Disaster Recovery At Facebook
Hyperscalers have billions of users who get access to their services for free, but the funny thing is that these users act like they are paying for it and expect for these services to be always available, no excuses. …
AI
Facebook’s Expanding Machine Learning Infrastructure
Here at The Next Platform, we tend to keep a close eye on how the major hyperscalers evolve their infrastructure to support massive scale and evermore complex workloads. …
Connect
Lessons Learned From Facebook’s Split Network Backbone
Distributed applications, whether they are containerized or not, have a lot of benefits when it comes to modularity and scale. …
AI
Machine Learning Gets An InfiniBand Boost With Caffe2
Scaling the performance of machine learning frameworks so they can train larger neural networks – or so the same training a lot faster – has meant that the hyperscalers of the world who are essentially creating this technology have had to rely on increasingly beefy compute nodes, these days almost universally augmented with GPUs. …
AI
A Look at Facebook’s Interactive Neural Network Visualization System
There has been much discussion about the “black box” problem of neural networks. …
AI
Facebook Pushes The Search Envelope With GPUs
An increasing amount of the world’s data is encapsulated in images and video and by its very nature it is difficult and extremely compute intensive to do any kind of index and search against this data compared to the relative ease with which we can do so with the textual information that heretofore has dominated both our corporate and consumer lives. …
Cloud
Open Hardware Pushes GPU Computing Envelope
The hyperscalers of the world are increasingly dependent on machine learning algorithms for providing a significant part of the user experience and operations of their massive applications, so it is not much of a surprise that they are also pushing the envelope on machine learning frameworks and systems that are used to deploy those frameworks. …
Compute
A Peek Inside Facebook’s Server Fleet Upgrade
Having a proliferation of server makes and models over a span of years in the datacenter is not a huge deal for most enterprises. …