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Move Over ChatGPT, Meta Platforms LLaMA Makes Some Drama

February 28, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Large language models, also known as AI foundation models and part of a broader category of AI transformer models, have been growing at an exponential pace in terms of the number of parameters they can process and the amount of compute and memory bandwidth capacity they require. …

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Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022

February 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …

Connect

Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High

November 1, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …

AI

The Odious Comparisons Of GPU Inference Performance And Value

October 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

While AI training dims the lights at hyperscalers and cloud builders and costs billions of dollars a year, in the long run, there will be a whole lot more aggregate processing done on AI inference than on AI training. …

Compute

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. …

Store

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. …

Store

The Expanding CXL Memory Hierarchy Is Inevitable – And Good Enough

August 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The Hot Chips 34 conference that is normally held at Stanford University is in full swing this week, and thanks to the coronavirus pandemic is being held entirely online. …

Store

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. …

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