Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Fireside chat: Smart network pipes unleashing new opportunities
Network device programmability and capability are growing rapidly, driven by innovations like programmable data planes and powerful control planes with cost effective ARM cores. This has enabled more extensive packet processing in the networks. Such…
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Closing remarks: Future of Cloud Networking
Microsoft Research has been at the forefront of network innovation for the cloud for over a decade. Our work, in partnership with Azure, spans all aspects of the network stack, along with network management and…
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Panel: Cloud Intelligence/AIOps across academia and industry
Cloud service plays an increasingly important role in our daily life, and the quality of cloud platforms, including reliability, availability, performance, capacity efficiency, security, sustainability, etc., has become immensely important. “Cloud Intelligence/AIOps” is designed to…
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Panel: Networking meets cloud & edge applications
Today, applications deployed in the cloud or at the edge provide services to end users over a heterogeneous array of networks, from high-speed wired links to fragile wireless communications. Data-driven techniques, including machine learning (ML),…
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Research talk: Optimizing the cloud supply chain
The cloud supply chain includes multiple business-critical stages, such as procuring hardware from multiple suppliers, building racks in datacenters and placing servers on top. While supply chain management has been widely studied, the cloud domain…
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Opening remarks: Future of Cloud Networking
Microsoft Research has been at the forefront of network innovation for the cloud for over a decade. Our work, in partnership with Azure, spans all aspects of the network stack, along with network management and…
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Fireside chat: Network verification: Cloud first, what’s next?
Delivering a reliable network to customers is top business priority. Providers can prevent network misconfigurations from degrading reliability by verifying every network configuration change before its deployment. This is a hard problem to solve, given…
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Research talk: Torchy: A tracing JIT compiler for PyTorch
This session will introduce current technologies to speed up training of machine learning models and their limitations, and it will also include a presentation of Torchy, a transparent solution to speed up PyTorch workloads through…
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Panel: Blurring the gap between software and hardware in networks
Over the years we have made and continue to make investments on exerting fuller software control on traditionally opaque hardware such as switches and routers as well as on moving traditionally software functionality into hardware…
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Keynote: The Future: Converging the Cloud & Telecommunications Infrastructures
The emergence of 5G has created an unexpected, unprecedented shift for telecommunications and the link between telecommunications and computing. In this talk, Victor Bahl will describe the scientific advances bringing us to where we are…
