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In the news | The Register
Microsoft offloads networking to FPGA-powered NICs
Microsoft has switched on new network interface cards packing field-programmable gate arrays and announced that doing so has let it hit 30Gbps of throughput for servers in Azure.
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Maximize your VM’s Performance with Accelerated Networking – now generally available for both Windows and Linux
We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) is generally available (GA) and widely available for Windows and the latest distributions of Linux providing up to 30Gbps in networking throughput, free of charge! AN provides consistent ultra-low network latency via…
Remote memories accessed, and created, at SOSP 2017 in Shanghai, China
| Alex Shamis
I spend my day working on problems related to transactions and accessing memory on one computer using the computer processing unit, or CPU, of another computer, a technology known as remote direct memory access, or RDMA. While the technology has…
In the news | Bing Blog
Bing launches new intelligent search features, powered by AI
Today we announced new Intelligent Search features for Bing, powered by AI, to give you answers faster, give you more comprehensive and complete information, and enable you to interact more naturally with your search engine. Intelligent answers leverage the latest…
In the news | NY Times
Chips Off the Old Block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft FPGA Wins Versus Google TPUs for AI
In the news | Fortune
Microsoft is building its own AI Hardware with project Brainwave
Microsoft unveils Project Brainwave for real-time AI
By Doug Burger, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Today at Hot Chips 2017, our cross-Microsoft team unveiled a new deep learning acceleration platform, codenamed Project Brainwave. I’m delighted to share more details in this post, since Project Brainwave achieves a major leap…
In the news | geekwire
Microsoft’s project Brainwave puts ‘real-time artificial intelligence’ into high-tech chips