Question: Which of the following company has unveiled an artificial intelligence supercomputer “AI Research Super Cluster (RSC)”?
(a) IBM
(b) Meta
(c) Google
(d) Microsoft
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- Facebook Parent Company Meta built world’s Fastest AI Supercomputer ‘RSC’.
- According to Facebook parent company Meta, its new “artificial intelligence supercomputer” will be the fastest across the world, by the middle of year 2022.
- Meta introduced the AI Research Super Cluster (RSC) on January 24, 2022.
- It is believed to be among fastest AI supercomputers running today.
- Currently, AI can perform tasks such as translating text between languages and help in identifying potentially harmful content.
- The RSC includes algorithms on content moderation for detecting hate speech and explicit content on Facebook and Instagram.
- It will be used to design things or run programs for the Metaverse.
- The Supercomputer consists of 760 Nvidia GGX A 100 systems containing 6,080 GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) whereas Meta’s RSC is already providing up to 20 times improved performance.
- It will have a total of 16,000 GPUs by the end of the second phase of its creation.
- Traditional supercomputer’s performance is measured in 64-bit floating point operations per second (FLOPs), whereas AI Supercomputer are often measured in 32-bit or 16-bit FLOPs.
BY: AMIT GUPTA