FPGAs in the Datacenter at Microsoft

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• Aaron Smith (Microsoft)
• Monday 21 March 2016, 14:00-15:00
• Dennis Gabor Seminar Room (611), EEE Department.

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At Microsoft we have designed and deployed a composable, reconfigurable fabric to accelerate portions of large-scale software services beyond what commodity server designs provide. This talk will describe a prototype deployment of this fabric on a bed of 1,632 servers, and discuss its efficacy in accelerating the Bing web search engine. I will discuss some of the design decisions and tradeoffs made and challenges for future datacenter accelerators.

Aaron received his PhD in Computer Science from UT-Austin and leads the E2 team at Microsoft Research which is exploring next-generation computer architectures. He is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh and co-PC Chair of CGO 2017 .

This talk is part of the CAS Talks series.

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