Facebook is for the first time contributing AI hardware designs to its own Open Compute Project, namely the Big Sur modular servers that it uses for complex artificial intelligence tasks. Big Sur is Open Rack-compatible and contains eight high-performance GPUs, which have enabled the company to improve its AI computing ability by four-fold since the last iteration of the same product. It has been stripped back of any unnecessary parts in the name of efficiency, with components that are liable to fail – like the hard drive and motherboard – replaceable within minutes. Facebook calls the unit “toolless” as there is only one…
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