Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
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Overcoming Fundamental Inefficiencies in the Representation of Data in Conventional Architectures
Society has become so dependent on computing power that any inefficiencies in the way that we process information can considerably impede productivity and quality of life. Three emerging trends pose challenges to the design of…
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Fast and Robust Transaction Processing on Emerging Hardware
Database engines must utilize and adapt to the underlying hardware. New hardware such as non-volatile memory (NVM) and massively parallel processors, is changing fundamentally how database engines should be designed for better scalability, performance, and…
Microsoft Research Blog
New Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant provides support to under-represented groups in computing
By Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research I am pleased to announce that Microsoft Research is funding a new academic program, the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant. This grant program offers selected doctoral students…
Publication
Fat Caches for Scale-Out Servers
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Dunking the data center
Event
CGO 2017 and Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is excited to be part of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Code Generation Optimization (CGO) Austin, TX, on February 4-8, 2017. This event is also co-located with PPoPP, HPCA17, and CC.
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HPCA-17 and Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is a Silver sponsor of the 23rd IEEE Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) at the Austin Hilton in Austin, TX, February 4-8, 2017.
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are…