The next step in Facebook’s AI hardware infrastructure

This post announces Big Basin v2, the next iteration of Meta's AI hardware infrastructure. Big Basin v2 builds upon the modular design of its predecessor, incorporating the latest NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators, an upgraded head-node (Tioga Pass) for increased CPU performance, doubled PCIe bandwidth between CPUs and GPUs, and an upgraded OCP network card for enhanced distributed training bandwidth. These upgrades resulted in a 66% increase in single-GPU performance and near-linear performance improvement in large-scale distributed GPU training. The post also details how Big Basin v2 integrates with the FBLearner platform (Feature Store, Flow, Predictor) and other OCP-contributed hardware like Bryce Canyon and Twin Lakes.