Meta has shared the building blocks of its Catalina AI system, which is based on NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 solution with Open Rack v3 & Liquid Cooling. Meta’s Custom NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Blackwell Platform, The Catalina Pod, is Liquid Cooling-Ready & Open Rack v3 Compliant Back in 2022, Meta mainly focused on clusters that were around 6,000 GPUs in terms of size. These were mainly designed for traditional ranking and recommendation models, so essentially running workloads that spanned 128-512 GPUs. A year later, thanks to the advent of GenAI & LLMs, clusters grew to 16-24K GPUs (a 4x increase), and just […]
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