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SUMMARY:A Reconfigurable Fabric for Large-Scale Datacenter Services
DTSTART:20150211T113000
DTEND:20150211T123000
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DESCRIPTION:By : Derek Chiou - Microsoft\nThe ending of Moore’s Law is s
 tarting to have a profound impact on datacenter operators\, who have tradi
 tionally relied on steady advances in processor performance and efficiency
  to make improved services economically viable. The Catapult reconfigurabl
 e fabric at Microsoft ushers in a new datacenter architecture that marries
  programmable software with efficient and low-power programmable hardware 
 (i.e.\, FPGAs). Catapult is deployed on a bed of 1\,632 servers and was sh
 own to double the ranking throughput of a large-scale web search workload 
 (Bing).\nExploiting a large-scale reconfigurable fabric such as Catapult r
 equired radical changes to conventional software-hardware contracts\, prog
 ramming methodology\, and coordination between hardware and software teams
  at Microsoft. Some challenges encountered were: (1) the need to accommoda
 te rapid changes to models and algorithms\, (2) the need for flexible but 
 well-defined contracts and interfaces between high-level software and low-
 level accelerator engines\, and (3) mitigating the productivity challenges
  associated with programming low-level accelerators. This talk will presen
 t some of the solutions used in the Bing pilot\, and offer suggestions and
  directions for future work.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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