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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. …

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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. …

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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. …

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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. …

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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. …

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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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ML Training Growing Pains at Facebook

August 25, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

Facebook has to keep digging into ever-lower levels of its architecture to make efficient use of endlessly growing training data.

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Vertically Unchallenged

April 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Components make compute and storage servers, and servers with application plane, control plane, and data plane software running atop them or alongside them make systems, and workflows across systems make platforms. …

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