Meta-Facebook announces that it has designed and built AI Research SuperCluster (Rsc), "among the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers to date and, once completed by mid-2022, will also be the fastest" , the company explains in an official post.
The supercomputer will help Meta's artificial intelligence researchers build new AI models that can "learn from trillions of examples" or "work in hundreds of different languages", analyze "text, images and video together", but also "develop new ones. augmented reality tools ". "The work done with Rsc will pave the way for the creation of technologies for the next great computing platform: the metaverse, where applications and products based on artificial intelligence will play an important role," adds Meta.
In the long presentation post, the company explains the genesis of this project which accelerated in early 2020. From a technical point of view, the first performance results speak of "vision workflows up to 20 times faster. "with the possibility for" a model with tens of billions of parameters to complete the training in three weeks, compared to the previous nine ".
The Rsc supercomputer, Meta points out, "was designed from the ground up with privacy and security in mind, with the entire data path encrypted end-to-end."
Finally, Meta explains that the supercomputer is up and running "but its development is underway" and that throughout 2022 it will work to increase performance and computing capacity for the "construction of next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructures that are there. helping to create the fundamental technologies that will power the metaverse and advance the wider artificial intelligence community. "
