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. …
Cloud
Microsoft Azure Goes Back To Rack Servers With Project Olympus
The thing we hear time and time again from the hyperscalers is that technology is a differentiator, but supply chain can make or break them. …
Compute
One Rack To Stack Them All
Stacking up electronics equipment in precise form factors that slide into standard racks is not a new idea, and in fact it is one that predates the modern era of computing. …
AI
Facebook Flow Is An AI Factory Of The Future
We have been convinced for many years that machine learning, the kind of artificial intelligence that actually works in practice, not in theory, would be a key element of the next platform. …
Connect
Datacenters To Get A High Fiber Bandwidth Diet
Might doesn’t make right, but it sure does help. The hyperscalers, cloud builders, and co-location datacenters of the world that operate at massive scale have an interconnectivity problem, and it has nothing to do with the feeds and speeds of a switch. …
Compute
Xeon D Shows How ARM Can Beat Intel
Intel has been perfectly honest about the fact that certain technologies it is putting forward are being driven by hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Cloud
Shiny New Open Compute Gear, And The Roadmap Ahead
The Open Compute Project started by Facebook nearly five years ago is in many respects a tier one server maker a tier one server maker that just so happens to have multiple manufacturers etching motherboards and bending metal instead of one. …