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a) No one has said that Twitter doesn't use ML accelerators. b) No one has said Twitter operates entire data centres. c) You need more than just NICs and ML a
by threeseed 4y ago
a) No one has said that Twitter doesn't use ML accelerators.
b) No one has said Twitter operates entire data centres.
c) You need more than just NICs and ML accelerators to built a Twitter timeline. You need to rank the content, determine appropriate ads and combine them together. You can't do that in your network card.
- pg314 4y ago> No one has said Twitter operates entire data centres. They do though. 3 in the US alone (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-elon-musk-considers-shutting-twitters-sacramento-data-center-leaving-just-two/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-elon-musk-...).
- nimish 4y agoGood news, Nvidia will now sell you a GPU+NIC+CPU with competitive performance: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-data-center-ai-with-the-nvidia-converged-accelerator-developer-kit/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-data-center-a... Twitter operates a handful of datacenters because their scale is such that it makes sense.