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

[daisymae@mit.edu]

 		   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


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