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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. …

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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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