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A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic

March 30, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. …

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Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does

June 10, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …

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How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training

March 25, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …

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How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric

March 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. …

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Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms

March 15, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …

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The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered

September 17, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

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. …

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Facebook Sounds Opening Bell for AI Inference Hardware Makers

September 13, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

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. …

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Machine Learning Drives Changing Disaster Recovery At Facebook

January 10, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 1

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. …

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Facebook’s Expanding Machine Learning Infrastructure

January 8, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

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. …

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Lessons Learned From Facebook’s Split Network Backbone

May 2, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Distributed applications, whether they are containerized or not, have a lot of benefits when it comes to modularity and scale. …

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