Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has unveiled a new AI supercomputer. The company claims it will be the fastest and world’s largest AI supercomputer, which will be fully ready by the end of 2022.
Meta calls the new AI supercomputer AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). The company says it’s already being used by meta-researchers to train large natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision models for research. “AI can currently perform tasks like translating text between languages and identifying potentially malicious content, but developing the next generation of AI requires powerful supercomputers capable of performing trillions of operations per second,” says Meta.
RSC will help Meta create better AI models that are trained on trillions of examples, work in hundreds of different languages, seamlessly analyze text, images and video together, be used for AR and much more.
“We hope that RSC will help us to develop entirely new AI systems that, for example, enable real-time language translations for large groups of people who each speak a different language, allowing them to seamlessly collaborate on a research project or an AR game can play together” – Kevin Lee and software engineer Shubho Sengupta, Meta
Source: Meta
The current generation of RSC supercomputers has 760 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems with a total of 6,080 GPUs. Meta believes that the current generation is already among the fastest supercomputers in the world. Based on the early benchmarks, Meta says the current RSC can run computer vision models up to 20x faster and 9x faster than the NVIDIA Collective Communication Library.
RSC is operational today, but its development continues. Once we complete the second phase of building RSC, we believe it will be the world’s fastest AI supercomputer, capable of nearly 5 exaflops performance at mixed precision.
Over the course of 2022, Meta will work to increase the number of GPUs from 6,080 to 16,000. The company says it will increase its throughput by 2.5 times.
source: Meta | Over: The Edge, CNN
