Meta confirmed that it is manufacturing an AI supercomputer, the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). The company announced that this will be the fastest supercomputer in the world once fully built by mid-2022. The device is said to quicken AI research and help in building the metaverse, the next major computing platform.

What is the RSC Meta’s AI Supercomputer

Meta assumes the RSC as a powerful supercomputer able of quintillion of operations per second. It can perform tasks like translating text between languages and help identify potentially harmful content on Meta’s platform.

The RSC, compared with Meta’s legacy production and research infrastructure, can run computer vision workflows up to 20 times faster, and train large-scale natural language processing (NLP) models three times faster. Meta estimates that a model with billions of parameters can finish training in three weeks, compared to the nine weeks it was before. RSC today comprises a total of 760 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems as its compute nodes, for a total of 6,080 GPUs. RSC’s storage tier has 175 petabytes of Pure Storage FlashArray, 46 petabytes of cache storage in Penguin Computing Altus systems, and 10 petabytes of Pure Storage FlashBlade, Meta said.

What is a supercomputer?

Supercomputers have a high level of computing performance compared to a general purpose computer. In this post, we cover all details of supercomputers like history, performance, application etc.

• A computer with a high level of computing performance compared to a general purpose computer and performance measured in FLOPS (floating point operations per second).
• Great speed and great memory are the two prerequisites of a super computer.
• The performance is generally evaluated in petaflops (1 followed by 15 zeros).
• Memory is averaged around 250000 times of the normal computer we use on a daily basis.
• Housed in large clean rooms with high air flow to permit cooling.
• Used to solve problems that are too complex and huge for standard computers.

In India for development of supercomputing grid NSM running.

National Supercomputing Mission (NSM): The Mission envisages empowering national academic and R&D institutions spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.
These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN). The NKN is another programme of the government which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high speed network. The Mission includes development of highly professional High Performance Computing (HPC) aware human resource for meeting challenges of development of these applications. India looks forward to create a cluster of machines for weather forecasting, drug discovery and data mining.

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