2022-01-26 15:06:56
META develops a supercomputer for the Metaverse
Scheduled to be fully operational this summer, the new supercomputer of Meta (formerly Facebook), announces extraordinary computing power. Indeed, it will be able to process data equivalent to 1 exabyte, i.e. 1 billion GB, and will have a bandwidth of 16 TB/second.
This will be a valuable tool for Meta to feed the research work of its future metaverse. And this tool is called AI Research SuperCluster, or RSC for the intimate.
Incidentally, this computer already has 6080 NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). These allow it a computing power that already places it as the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world. Eventually, the RSC should house up to 16000 GPUs. As for the company Meta, it did not wish to communicate either the cost or the location of this installation.
It's hard to speculate at this point on how many and what monopolies of metaverse virtual worlds will be popular in the future. But one thing is for sure, whoever offers the best user experience will have a huge competitive advantage. So that's what the SuperCluster is all about: a tool that can process the goldmine of user data accumulated over the years by the companies in the group.
This research work will enable the development of artificial intelligence that is as immersive and responsive as possible. This can of course be applied to virtual reality games, but also to conferences in several languages that would be translated in real time.
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