A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services

A. Putnam; A. M. Caulfield; E. S. Chung; D. Chiou; K. Constantinides; J. Demme; H. Esmaeilzadeh; J. Fowers; G. P. Gopal; J. Gray; M. Haselman; S. Hauck; S. Heil; A. Hormati; J. Y. Kim; S. Lanka; J. Larus; E. Peterson; S. Pope; A. Smith; J. Thong; P. Y. Xiao; D. Burger

doi:10.1109/MM.2015.42

A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services

A. Putnam, A. M. Caulfield, E. S. Chung, D. Chiou, K. Constantinides, J. Demme, H. Esmaeilzadeh, J. Fowers, G. P. Gopal, J. Gray, M. Haselman, S. Hauck, S. Heil, A. Hormati, J. Y. Kim, S. Lanka, J. Larus, E. Peterson, S. Pope, A. SmithJ. Thong, P. Y. Xiao, D. Burger

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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
Pages (from-to)	10-22
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Micro
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2015.42
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2015

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Putnam, A., Caulfield, A. M., Chung, E. S., Chiou, D., Constantinides, K., Demme, J., Esmaeilzadeh, H., Fowers, J., Gopal, G. P., Gray, J., Haselman, M., Hauck, S., Heil, S., Hormati, A., Kim, J. Y., Lanka, S., Larus, J., Peterson, E., Pope, S., ... Burger, D. (2015). A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services. IEEE Micro, 35(3), 10-22. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2015.42

Putnam, A. ; Caulfield, A. M. ; Chung, E. S. ; Chiou, D. ; Constantinides, K. ; Demme, J. ; Esmaeilzadeh, H. ; Fowers, J. ; Gopal, G. P. ; Gray, J. ; Haselman, M. ; Hauck, S. ; Heil, S. ; Hormati, A. ; Kim, J. Y. ; Lanka, S. ; Larus, J. ; Peterson, E. ; Pope, S. ; Smith, A. ; Thong, J. ; Xiao, P. Y. ; Burger, D. / A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services. In: IEEE Micro. 2015 ; Vol. 35, No. 3. pp. 10-22.

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A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services. / Putnam, A.; Caulfield, A. M.; Chung, E. S.; Chiou, D.; Constantinides, K.; Demme, J.; Esmaeilzadeh, H.; Fowers, J.; Gopal, G. P.; Gray, J.; Haselman, M.; Hauck, S.; Heil, S.; Hormati, A.; Kim, J. Y.; Lanka, S.; Larus, J.; Peterson, E.; Pope, S.; Smith, A.; Thong, J.; Xiao, P. Y.; Burger, D.

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