Meta Is Building A Massive New Supercomputer - AI Summary

Meta's goal with the supercomputer is to use AI to power real-time interactions, such as the impressive feat of helping "large groups of people, each speaking a different language… seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together." Speech recognition, computer vision, and neuro-linguistic programming are among the tech giant's top priorities. But given that this is Meta-slash-Facebook, the metaverse can't not make an appearance on the RSC's press release; the company admits that it will use its powerful new supercomputer to build AI-driven applications and products that ultimately support the virtual world. This means the supercomputer has to be extremely reliable, especially because Meta imagines it will run experiments involving thousands of GPUs for weeks at a time. Like with any other AI supercomputer, Meta is assembling RSC by combining multiple GPUs into compute nodes, then connecting them with a high-performance network fabric that allows for ultra-efficient communication.