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 +====== Toward Accelerating Deep Learning at Scale Using Specialized Hardware in the Datacenter ======
  
 +Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015\\
 +Location: CIC Panther Hollow Room\\
 +Time: 4:30PM\\
 +
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 +{{:​seminars:​eric_chung_msr.jpg?​256|}}\\
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 +**[[http://​research.microsoft.com/​en-us/​people/​erchung/​|Eric Chung]]**\\
 +Microsoft Research\\
 +
 +
 +=====Abstract=====
 +Recent breakthroughs in the development of multi-layer convolutional neural
 +networks have led to state-of-the-art improvements in the accuracy of
 +non-trivial recognition tasks such as large-category image classification
 +and automatic speech recognition. ​ These many-layered neural networks are
 +large, complex, and require substantial computing resources to train and
 +evaluate. ​ Unfortunately,​ these demands come at an inopportune moment due to
 +the recent slowing of gains in commodity processor performance.
 +Hardware specialization in the form of GPGPUs, FPGAs, and ASIC offers a
 +promising path towards major leaps in processing capability while achieving
 +high energy efficiency. ​ At Microsoft, an effort is underway to accelerate
 +Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) using servers in the datacenter
 +augmented with FPGAs. ​ Initial efforts to implement a single-node CNN
 +accelerator on a mid-range FPGA show significant promise, resulting in
 +respectable performance relative to prior FPGA designs, multithreaded CPU
 +implementations and high-end GPGPUs, at a fraction of the power. In the
 +future, combining multiple FPGAs over a low-latency communication fabric
 +offers further opportunity to train and evaluate models of unprecedented
 +size and quality.
 +
 +
 +=====Bio=====
 +Eric Chung is a Researcher at Microsoft. ​ He is broadly interested in
 +computer architecture,​ reconfigurable computing, high level hardware design,
 +datacenters,​ and machine learning at scale. ​ Since 2012, Eric has been a
 +core member and contributor to the Catapult project at Microsoft, which uses
 +a fabric of FPGAs to accelerate cloud services at scale in the datacenter.
 +Previously, Eric received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering
 +from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in
 +2004.
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