Facebook open sources its hardware for deep learning neural networks - Meet Big Sur

12/11/2015 - 16:23

Ian Thompson | @iainthomson


Four years after Facebook open sourced its data center hardware with the Open Compute Project, the company has done it again with a server built for deep learning neural networks.

Dubbed Big Sur, the reference design uses eight high-performance GPUs of up to 300 watts each to crunch data in an air-cooled rack that fits with existing OCP data center designs.

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