[Crib-list] TODAY: SPEAKER: Derek Chiou (Microsoft) / CRIBB Seminar / Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 / 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM / Building 32, Room 141

[Shirley Entzminger]

 	T O D A Y . . .


 		   COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND Seminar


DATE:		FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016
TIME:		1:00 PM  2:00 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 141  (STATA)

 		 Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:45 PM
 		 outside Room 32-141



TITLE:		Microsoft's Production Configurable Cloud


SPEAKER:	DEREK CHIOU  (Microsoft)


ABSTRACT:

Microsoft has been building data centers with a programmable hardware in every 
server, creating a novel Configurable Cloud.  The reconfigurable hardware, in 
the form of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) is cabled between the NIC 
and the data center network, as well as being attached to the CPUs via PCIe. 
This architecture enables an FPGA-centric, rather than CPU-centric, 
computational model since all communication in and out of the server is first 
processed by the FPGA that handles common tasks without CPU involvement and 
passes uncommon, complex tasks to the CPU that acts as a "complexity" offload 
engine.  Microsoft has deployed a diverse set of applications, including deep 
neural networks and software defined networking acceleration, across its 
Configurable Cloud.  I will describe the Cloud, some of its applications, and 
their performance.


BIO:

Derek Chiou is a Partner Architect at Microsoft where he leads the
Azure Cloud Silicon team responsible for FPGAs and ASICs in
Microsoft's data centers and an adjunct professor in the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at
Austin.  Before Microsoft/UT, Dr. Chiou was a system
architect and lead the performance modeling team at Avici Systems, a
manufacturer of terabit core routers.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


For information about the Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar, 
please visit...

 			http://math.mit.edu/crib/




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Shirley A. Entzminger
Administrative Assistant II
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 2, Room 350A
Cambridge, MA 02139
PHONE:  (617) 253-4347
FAX:    (617) 253-4358
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