Sponsor Talk

Wesley Bland: Research Scientist at Meta

Title: AI Infra at Meta

Abstract:

Meta is building AI infrastructure at enormous scale to handle a large breadth of workloads, from Generative AI to Machine Learning. These workloads require innovation in compute, storage, power, and of course, networking. Meta continue to take great strides to innovate in this space including creating our own custom silicon, MTIA, to improve both performance and cost. In this talk, we will take a quick tour of the work going on at Meta and see the direction it is moving.

Biography:

Wes Bland is a Research Scientist at Meta Platforms focusing primarily on HPC communication co-design. He has spent more than 15 years working in the HPC communication space including contributions to the MPI Standard as well as MPI implementations. He was previously the chair of the fault tolerance working group and has held the position of MPI Forum Secretary since 2017. Wesley received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.