Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
Project
Prometheus
Project Prometheus is building faster, more efficient datacenter systems by co-designing distributed systems with new network primitives. Prometheus takes advantage of new programmable hardware to accelerate applications.
Microsoft Research Blog
PipeDream: A more effective way to train deep neural networks using pipeline parallelism
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have facilitated tremendous progress across a range of applications, including image classification, translation, language modeling, and video captioning. DNN training is extremely time-consuming, needing efficient multi-accelerator parallelization. In “PipeDream: Generalized Pipeline…
Event
Microsoft at SOSP 2019
SOSP 2019 is the biennial ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles is the world's premier forum for researchers, developers, programmers, and teachers of computer systems technology. As a bronze sponsor, Microsoft will join academic and…
