November 2016 - Vol. 59 No. 11

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Features

Opinion Letters to the editor

Learn to Live with Academic Rankings

No one likes being reduced to a number. For example, there is much more to my financial picture than my credit score. Yet it is used to make decisions that matter to me, as Moshe Y. Vardi discussed in his Editor’s Letter (Sept. 2016).
Research and Advances Contributed articles

Apache Spark: A Unified Engine For Big Data Processing

This open source computing framework unifies streaming, batch, and interactive big data workloads to unlock new applications.
Research and Advances Research highlights

Diannao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators For Machine Learning

We introduce a series of hardware accelerators (i.e., the DianNao family) designed for Machine Learning (especially neural networks), with a special emphasis on the impact of memory on accelerator design, performance, and energy.
Research and Advances Research highlights

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.

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