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Drilling Into Microsoft’s BrainWave Soft Deep Learning Chip

August 24, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There are a lot of different ways to skin the deep learning cat. …

Cloud

How Microsoft Fell Hard for FPGAs

October 17, 2016 Stacey Higginbotham 0

Microsoft’s embrace of programmable chips knowns as FPGAs is well documented. …

Compute

Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning

August 27, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

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

April 1, 2020 Guy Harpak 0

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

March 3, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …

Compute

Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU

February 11, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

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

February 10, 2020 Paul Teich 0

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

February 5, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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

February 3, 2020 Paul Teich 5

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

April 18, 2019 Michael Feldman 2

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. …

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