Today, Meta went public while detailing the initiative of enhancing timing across various data centers.
The tech giant says it is focusing on such upgrades because it deems it to be an integral aspect in terms of the company’s core service and technical components that determine which services need to be worked on.
Meta adds how all its data centers do have clocks that allow it to log into the time when such calculations are being made. Moreover, some operators at data centers are given tasks to synchronize the server clocks to make sure everything shows up with time.
This is a very integral process as such accuracy in time measurements is required for important computing tasks like those related to making network connections. Moreover, to gain the support of billions from across the world, Meta says that it needs people to be confident with handling and for that, accuracy in time is of the essence.
The process that would enable such syncing to arise is thanks to a new technology that’s labeled timing protocol like NTP. Here is where engineers switched from one data center to another like PTP which was even more advanced than the former.
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This type of technology is used so commonly in places like the telecommunications industry but the actual adoption really stands out as being a huge milestone in that particular industry. In the same way, this particular move would ensure the data centers of Meta would carry out various computing tasks in a more effective manner.
By syncing, we are saying hello to server clocks that are used to send data to servers about the current time so the other machine is well aware. The delay between the two is a few seconds and hence that tiny delay is what makes the whole syncing process so hard.
Such tasks can never be carried out with too much accuracy. Therefore, operators at various data centers could result in so many inaccuracies that arise of various kinds. Moreover, such timing protocols if and when implemented by Meta are going to make sure firms overcome any inaccuracies along the way.
With newer technology, we are expecting to see fewer delays. And these would be of new nanoseconds. Meta also mentioned how its engineers are really doing everything in their power to make sure all data centers get equipped with this PTP technology that really delivers the best benefits out there.
Meta wants all servers to be on point with current times and if that means going the extra mile with the best hardware in the industry, then so be it. Some suggestions were also made about an atomic clock that is not only accurate but really takes time into consideration by looking at atom properties.
Recently, the company set out a new appliance design with a range of other technologies that it felt was a part of an initiative working under licenses of the open-source kind.
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The tech giant says it is focusing on such upgrades because it deems it to be an integral aspect in terms of the company’s core service and technical components that determine which services need to be worked on.
Meta adds how all its data centers do have clocks that allow it to log into the time when such calculations are being made. Moreover, some operators at data centers are given tasks to synchronize the server clocks to make sure everything shows up with time.
This is a very integral process as such accuracy in time measurements is required for important computing tasks like those related to making network connections. Moreover, to gain the support of billions from across the world, Meta says that it needs people to be confident with handling and for that, accuracy in time is of the essence.
To support billions around the 🌍 globe using our technologies, our data centers need to know & agree on what time it is, as precisely as possible. Precision Time Protocol (#PTP) is a method that allows clocks to sync down to a millionth of a second. 1/2https://t.co/dlVD4QqIfI pic.twitter.com/gK7wWREZCe
— Engineering at Meta (@fb_engineering) November 21, 2022
The process that would enable such syncing to arise is thanks to a new technology that’s labeled timing protocol like NTP. Here is where engineers switched from one data center to another like PTP which was even more advanced than the former.
t
This type of technology is used so commonly in places like the telecommunications industry but the actual adoption really stands out as being a huge milestone in that particular industry. In the same way, this particular move would ensure the data centers of Meta would carry out various computing tasks in a more effective manner.
By syncing, we are saying hello to server clocks that are used to send data to servers about the current time so the other machine is well aware. The delay between the two is a few seconds and hence that tiny delay is what makes the whole syncing process so hard.
Such tasks can never be carried out with too much accuracy. Therefore, operators at various data centers could result in so many inaccuracies that arise of various kinds. Moreover, such timing protocols if and when implemented by Meta are going to make sure firms overcome any inaccuracies along the way.
With newer technology, we are expecting to see fewer delays. And these would be of new nanoseconds. Meta also mentioned how its engineers are really doing everything in their power to make sure all data centers get equipped with this PTP technology that really delivers the best benefits out there.
Meta wants all servers to be on point with current times and if that means going the extra mile with the best hardware in the industry, then so be it. Some suggestions were also made about an atomic clock that is not only accurate but really takes time into consideration by looking at atom properties.
Recently, the company set out a new appliance design with a range of other technologies that it felt was a part of an initiative working under licenses of the open-source kind.
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