Project Catapult
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Awards | OnMSFT.com
Microsoft’s Project Catapult wins GeekWire’s ‘Innovation of the Year’ award
Project Catapult, a longtime research initiative on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), received the ‘Innovation of the year’ award during the ceremony held at the Museum of Pop Culture.
Awards | GeekWire
Project Catapult garners 2017 GeekWire Innovation of the Year award
Technology news website GeekWire named Microsoft’s Project Catapult the Innovation of the Year at its 2017 GeekWire Awards ceremony. The initiative “puts the company at the forefront of field programmable gate arrays, of FPGAs,” according to GeekWire. The technology is at the heart…
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft’s Configurable Cloud satisfies datacenters’ need for speed
In the news | Fortune
Why Microsoft Is Putting These Chips at the Center of Its Cloud
In the news | The AI Blog
The moonshot that succeeded: How Bing and Azure are using an AI supercomputer in the cloud
When we type in a search query, access our email via the cloud or stream a viral video, chances are we don’t spend any time thinking about the technological plumbing that is behind that instant gratification. Sitaram Lanka and Derek…
In the news | Wired
Microsoft Bets its Future on a Reprogrammable Chip
Project Catapult servers available to academic researchers
By Derek Chiou, Partner Architect, Microsoft At this year’s Supercomputing 2015 Conference in Austin, Texas, Microsoft is announcing the availability of Project Catapult clusters to academic researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at…
Machine Learning Gets Big Boost from Ultra-Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator
Posted by Doug Burger Editor’s note: Doug Burger, a processor architect by training, is a Microsoft researcher focused on disrupting the very fabric of datacenter processing power in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. I’m excited to highlight a breakthrough in high-performance…
Catapult: Moving Beyond CPUs in the Cloud
Posted by Rob Knies Operating a datacenter at web scale requires managing many conflicting requirements. The ability to deliver computation at a high level and speed is a given, but because of the demands such a facility must meet, a…