Meta Built The World's Fastest AI Supercomputer.

Meta is the latest company to build an AI supercomputer. Meta's AI Research SuperCluster has been designed to train machine learning systems, and the company says it will be the world's fastest Supercomputer once it is complete later in 2022.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said that it would be completed later this year, announced the new Supercomputer.

"Meta has developed what we believe is the world's fastest AI supercomputer. We're calling it RSC or AI Research SuperCluster, and it'll be complete later this year," Zuckerberg said in a statement.

The Supercomputer reflects the heavy investments big tech companies make in AI research. Other tech companies like Microsoft and Nvidia have also announced their own "AI supercomputers."

The Supercomputer consists of 760 Nvidia GGX A 100 systems containing 6,080 GPUs. It will have a total of 16,000 GPUs by the end of the second phase of its creation. Meta says that it is already providing up to 20 times improved performance. This is expected to happen before the end of 2022.

Now, AI supercomputers are different from normal computers because machine learning requires less accuracy than the kind of tasks handled by traditional supercomputers. While a conventional supercomputer's performance is measured in 64-bit floating-point operations per second (FLOPs), an AI Supercomputer is often measured in 32-bit or 16-bit FLOPs. Hence, 'AI Supercomputers' can carry out more calculations per second than their regular counterparts using the same hardware. This means that the Meta AI Research SuperCluster is not a direct competitor to supercomputers like the Summit 500 or Fugaku, the fastest Supercomputer globally.