Microsoft's 'Planet-Scale' AI Infrastructure Could Revolutionise Work: Here's How

Microsoft is working to build an expansive new artificial intelligence set-up called "Singularity." In a paper published by a team from Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research, the company revealed information about Singularity.

According to Microsoft, Singularity ?will be a "new AI platform service ground-up from scratch that will become a major driver for AI, both inside Microsoft and outside."

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A "planet-scale" seamless integration of AI

Future-ready Singularity will be supported by "hundreds and thousands of GPUs and AI accelerators" to function. Each device in the Singularity infrastructure will be treated as a single cluster, ensuring maximum resource management.

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In a study titled "Singularity: Planet-Scale, Preemptible and Elastic Scheduling of AI Workloads," Singularity's architects described it as following - "??At the heart of Singularity is a novel, workload-aware scheduler that can transparently preempt and elastically scale deep learning workloads to drive high utilisation without impacting their correctness or performance, across a global fleet of accelerators (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs)."

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What this means is that anyone can pause an ongoing job, move to a different country altogether, and resume where they left off without any losses.

Unlike many AI systems that begin from scratch after experiencing failure, Microsoft's futuristic Singularity will jump back in when a task is interrupted. Think of Xbox's "Quick Resume" feature but for sophisticated energy-heavy computing on a mammoth scale.

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In addition, Singularity would be able to actively prioritise among different tasks based on workloads. "For example, Singularity adapts to increasing load on an inference job, freeing up capacity by elastically scaling down or preempting training jobs," its creators wrote.

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The new "planet-scale" project could have over 100,000 GPUs.?What do you think about this leap by Microsoft for the development of artificial intelligence? Let us know in the comments below.?For more in the world of?technology?and?science, keep reading?Indiatimes.com.??

References

Chatterjee, P. (2022, February 23). Microsoft to introduce new AI platform called ‘Singularity.’ Analytics India Magazine.?

Dudeja, S. (2022, February 23). Microsoft’s New ‘Singularity’ AI System Might Have 100,000+ GPUs. Fossbytes.?