Meta to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer

Meta (formerly Facebook) announced the creation of the world’s largest AI supercomputer, the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), for research in machine learning.

Meta is announcing the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), our latest AI supercomputer 💻 for AI research. RSC will allow our researchers to do new, groundbreaking experiments in #AI. Learn more about RSC and the important role it will play: https://t.co/l9CcQuFLyM pic.twitter.com/gD8Ve74ZqQ

— Meta AI (@MetaAI) January 24, 2022

As of today, the RSC comprises 760 Nvidia DGX-100 systems, which contain 6,800 Nvidia A100 GPUs. This has allowed Meta’s system to rank fifth in the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.

По словам представителей компании, достроенный RSC вместит 16 000 графических чипов Nvidia A100 и 4000 процессоров AMD Epyc Rome 7742, объединенных в 2000 кластеров. Пиковая производительность суперкомпьютера составит 5 экзафлопс. Установка сможет передавать до 16 терабайт обучающей информации в секунду, заявили в Meta.

«Мы ожидаем, что такое ступенчатое изменение вычислительных возможностей позволит нам не только создавать более точные модели ИИ для наших существующих сервисов, но и обеспечит совершенно новый пользовательский опыт, особенно в метавселенной», —сообщили инженеры Meta Кевин Ли и Шубхо Сенгупта.

According to them, the supercomputer is intended for the company’s research projects and no products based on it should be expected in the near future.

The company added that the supercomputer will enable creating new and more advanced AI models capable of learning from trillions of examples, analyzing text, images and video together, and developing augmented reality tools.

«We hope that the RSC will help us develop completely new artificial intelligence systems that could, for example, provide real-time voice translation or collaborative augmented reality gaming,» said Li and Sengupta.

Meta plans to complete the construction of the supercomputer by mid-2022. The cost of the project, as well as the physical location of the RSC within the company, were not disclosed.

Earlier in November 2021, Sber introduced the Christofari Neo supercomputer to accelerate AI tasks. The system’s performance reaches 11.95 petaflops.

In May, American scientists presented AI supercomputer Perlmutter, which will help build the largest ever 3D map of the visible Universe for studying dark energy.

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