Hadi Esmaeilzadeh – Communications of the ACM

Research and Advances Nov 1 2016

A Reconfigurable Fabric For Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services

We describe a medium-scale deployment of a composable, reconfigurable hardware fabric on a bed of 1,632 servers, and measure its effectiveness in accelerating the ranking component of the Bing web search engine.

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Jan 1 2015

Neural Acceleration For General-Purpose Approximate Programs

This paper describes a new approach that uses machine learning-based transformations to accelerate approximation-tolerant programs.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Feb 1 2013

Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era

Tthe microprocessor industry has shifted to multicore scaling as its principal strategy for continuing performance growth. However, while transistor count increases continue, the per-transistor speed and energy efficiency improvements have slowed dramatically.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jul 1 2012

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Power, Performance, and Upheaval

The past 10 years have delivered two significant revolutions. Microprocessor design has been transformed — leading to multicore processors. And an entirely new software landscape has emerged — revolutionizing how software is deployed, is sold, and interacts with hardware.

Architecture and Hardware

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