Meta Claims To Build World's Fastest AI Supercomputer

Meta (formerly Facebook) is currently building an AI supercomputer called the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). The company claims that the supercomputer is already one of the fastest machines and, when completed in mid-2022, will be the fastest in the world.

RSC is a high-speed computer explicitly designed to train machine learning systems. Meta will use this AI supercomputer to train business systems for content moderation algorithms and augmented reality features.

“We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together.”

Meta engineers Kevin Lee and Shubho Sengupta

Companies like Microsoft and Nvidia have also announced their own AI supercomputers that are slightly different from the normal ones.

Meta engineers started designing AI supercomputers a year and a half ago. RSC is already in its first stages and has more than 760 Nvidia GGX A100 systems containing 6,080 GPUs connected. This type of GPU is great for solving machine learning problems.

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The second phase of the RSC will be completed by the end of 2022 and will contain more than 16,000 GPUs in total. In comparison, Microsoft's AI supercomputer built with the OpenAI research lab has just 10,000 GPUs. For a list of the world's fastest supercomputers, see Top500.org.

AI supercomputers are better than other high-performance computers because they can perform more calculations per second using the same hardware. Even with this much raw computing power, Meta needs to step up its game to compete with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple.

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