Abstract
To advance datacenter capabilities beyond what commodity server designs can provide, the authors designed and built a composable, reconfigurable fabric to accelerate large-scale software services. Each instantiation of the fabric consists of a 6 x 8 2D torus of high-end field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) embedded into a half-rack of 48 servers. The authors deployed the reconfigurable fabric in a bed of 1,632 servers and FPGAs in a production datacenter and successfully used it to accelerate the ranking portion of the Bing Web search engine by nearly a factor of two.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 10-22 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | IEEE Micro |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2015 |