The microsoft catapult project

Derek Chiou

doi:10.1109/IISWC.2017.8167769

2017 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)

The microsoft catapult project

Year: 2017, Pages: 124-124

DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/IISWC.2017.8167769

Authors

Derek Chiou, Microsoft Research, University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

All new Microsoft Azure and Bing servers are being deployed with an FPGA that sits both between the server and the data center network and on the PCIe bus. The FPGA is currently being used to accelerate networking on Azure machines and search on Bing machines, but could very quickly and easily be retargeted to other uses as needed. In this talk, I will describe how we decided on this architecture, the new data center model it introduces, and the benefits it provides.

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The microsoft catapult project

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