Systems Research Group | Asia
The Systems Research Group (Asia) engages in both fundamental and applied research to advance the state of the art in computer systems. Our mission is to discover the fundamental principles for the design and implementation…
Intelligent Cloud and Edge Group
The Intelligent Cloud and Edge (ICE) Group is at the forefront of advancing the artificial intelligence infrastructure and addressing the fundamental system issues of combining Cloud and Edge. Our mission is to provide efficient, user-friendly,…
Project Janus: Programmable RAN and Platform
Programmable RAN and Platform Check our latest MWC announcements: Check our latest demo videos: Check our open source: Virtualization of telco networks is beginning to happen in Radio Access Networks (RAN), especially regarding Open Radio…
Research Focus: Week of February 20, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Many real-world applications require sequential decision making,…
Energy Efficiency for DNN Inference by Performance MaintainedTransformation
We design and implement a performance simulator for DNN models. It converts the the input training script to a directed-acyclic-graph and emulates the execution of operations. The simulator works for both data parallelism and pipeline…
Merak: An Analytical Performance Simulator for Large-scale Distributed Training
The growing computational demand for training deep neural networks (DNNs) makes it a standard practice toadopt distributed training. Though existing training systems use multiple devices to achieve high degrees ofdata parallelism, linear speedup of the…
Research Focus: Week of February 6, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In the latest episode of Behind the…