AI
Drilling Into Microsoft’s BrainWave Soft Deep Learning Chip
There are a lot of different ways to skin the deep learning cat. …
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Cloud
How Microsoft Fell Hard for FPGAs
Microsoft’s embrace of programmable chips knowns as FPGAs is well documented. …
Compute
Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning
After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices from Altera to the two-socket server nodes in the minimalist Open Cloud Servers that it has designed expressly for its hyperscale datacenters. …
Compute
Disrupt The Datacenter With Orchestration
Since 1965, the computer industry has relied on Moore’s Law to accelerate innovation, pushing more transistors into integrated circuits to improve computation performance. …
Compute
A Flare For SmartNICs
As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …
Compute
Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU
For any given compute engine, there is the vendor who makes the chip and therefore a lot of the money and then there are the downstream system architects, system integrators, original design manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturers who add further value to that compute engine in one form or another and make their own revenue stream from that innovation. …
Compute
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three
We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …
Connect
The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
Connect
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
HPC
Supercomputer Mixes Streams with CPU, GPU, and FPGA
If this is truly the age of heterogeneous supercomputers, then the system installed earlier this month at the University of Tsukuba is its poster child. …