Facebook releases Big Sur, a high-performance open source hardware for artificial intelligence research

FacebookArtificial intelligence research team "Facebook AI Research (FAIR)"We are concentrating on research on artificial intelligence, such as launching. Such Facebook is an open source hardware for developing a neural network utilizing artificial intelligence technology "Big SurIt will be released.

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Facebook focuses on artificial intelligence technology and machine learning technology to make it easier to use Facebook and more effectively utilize user data such as face recognition technology and personal assistant service. According to FAIR, it will triple the investment in GPU hardware to utilize neural network.

Facebook expects not only Facebook itself but other companies to work on artificial intelligence technology within the Facebook service, but in order to study artificial intelligence and machine learning, a high-performance dedicated computer with extremely high cooling performance It was said that it was necessary to raise hurdles. Therefore, Facebook should develop and provide to users the hardware "Big Sur" which is more open source and easier for users to freely improve, thanks to the enhanced heat protection, power efficiency than the commercially available artificial intelligence research machine It seems to have become.


This is Facebook's open source artificial intelligence hardware "Big Sur". The cooling parts written as "AIR FLOW" at the bottom of the photo captures air from the outside while cooling the motherboard and the graphic board that can mount up to 8 on the top can forcibly exhaust heat with a total of 4 fans .


Facebook has already partnered with NVIDIA and NVIDIA GPU Accelerator "Tesla M40"To artificial intelligence technology. When Tesla M 40 is installed in Big Sur, it is twice as fast as the previous model Facebook used for artificial intelligence technology development. Although it seems that Big Sur also was designed on the premise that Tesla M40 is installed, we support PCI - Express connected graphic board so that it can be used by a wider range of users.


Although Big Sur's price and release date are not announced at the time of article creation, it is likely that development such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning will be more activated by high-performance machines with Facebook advertisement.