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| Bita Darvish Rouhani, Doug Burger, Eric Chung, Rangan Majumder, Sangeetha Shekar, Saurabh Tiwary, Sitaram Lanka, and Steve Reinhardt
AI is taking on an increasingly important role in many Microsoft products, such as Bing and Office 365. In some cases, it’s being used to power outward-facing features like semantic search in Microsoft Word or intelligent answers in Bing, and…
In the news | Inside HPC
FPGAs and the Road to Reprogrammable HPC
GPU acceleration or architectural specialization are not new concepts, but some experts predict they will become increasingly common to speed up performance and also lower energy costs of future systems.
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs: Accelerating the Future
Project Brainwave is Microsoft’s principal architecture for serving real-time artificial intelligence (AI) that is used in Bing’s intelligent search, and now offered in Azure and at the edge.
Clouds, catapults and life after the end of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger
Episode 23, May 9, 2018 – Dr. Burger talks about how advances in AI and deep machine learning have placed new acceleration demands on current hardware and computer architecture, offers some observations about the demise of Moore’s Law, and shares…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyond
Machine learning algorithms are among those that FPGAs can turbo-charge. And that’s how an FPGA-based architecture for deployed ML models leads to a service called Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models.
In the news | ZDNet
I do so like AML and HAM
In the news | Intel Developer Zone
Microsoft* Turbocharges AI with Intel FPGAs. You Can, Too.
Today, Microsoft* announced a public preview of Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models powered by Project Brainwave*, a new AI inferencing service. The service uses Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs, configured as “soft DNN processing units” highly-tuned to the ResNet-50 image…
In the news | Fortune
4 Big Takeaways from Satya Nadella’s Talk at Microsoft Build
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is trying to distinguish the business technology giant from its technology brethren by focusing on digital privacy. That’s one of the takeaways from Nadella’s opening talk on Monday from Microsoft’s annual Build conference for developers in…
In the news | Wired
Microsoft Charts Its Own Path on Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft is pitching the idea of running AI projects atop chips called FPGAs, whose designs can be reprogrammed to support new forms of software on the fly.