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The Perfect AI Storage: Trino From Facebook And Iceberg From Netflix?
When it comes to solving data analytics problems at scale, it is tough to beat the hyperscalers. …
AI
With MTIA v2 Chip, Meta Can Do AI Inference, But Not Training
If you control your code base and you have only a handful of applications that run at massive scale – what some have called hyperscale – then you, too, can win the Chip Jackpot like Meta Platforms and a few dozen companies and governments in the world have. …
AI
Meta Platforms Crafts Homegrown AI Inference Chip, AI Training Next
As we pointed out a year ago when some key silicon experts were hired from Intel and Broadcom to come work for Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook was always the most obvious place to do custom silicon. …
Compute
The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms
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
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
Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux
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
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
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. …
Compute
Xeon D Refresh: The Little Hyperscale Engine That Could
The datacenter server has been the center of gravity for compute for decades. …
Connect
Surfing On The Ethernet Bandwidth Waves, Avoiding The Rocks
Any company making any kind of box – a server, a switch, a storage array – has three battles they need to fight here in 2022, one of which they did not have to worry about very much before the coronavirus pandemic and which is of prime importance these days. …