{"515881":{"#nid":"515881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Win Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of Georgia Tech researchers have won the HPCA 2016 Distinguished Paper award for \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hadi\/doc\/paper\/2016-hpca-tabla.pdf\u0022\u003ETABLA: A Unified Template-Based Framework for Accelerating Statistical Machine Learning.\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELed by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/hadi-esmaeilzadeh\u0022\u003EHadi Esmaeilzadeh\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E and the inaugural holder of the Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early Career Professorship, the paper looks into the potential application of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.xilinx.com\/training\/fpga\/fpga-field-programmable-gate-array.htm\u0022\u003EField Programmable Gate Arrays\u003C\/a\u003E (FPGAs) to accommodate the needs of machine-learning algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team seeks to use a method called TABLA that implements FPGAs to improve the efficiency of machine-learning algorithms, which are used in many commercial and enterprise applications, such as health monitoring, social networking, e-commerce, and financial analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to information provided by Esmaeilzadeh and his fellow researchers, \u201c[TABLA]\u2026 aims to bridge the gap between the machine learning algorithms and the FPGA accelerators\u201d by \u0022automatically generating the synthesizable implementation of the accelerator for FPGA realization using a set of hand-optimized templates.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team, which includes fellow researchers Divya Mahajan, Jongse Park, Emmanuel Amaro, Hardik Sharma, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, and Joon Kyung Kim, received their award during the 22nd annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)\u2019s Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture in Barcelona, Spain, held March 12 \u2013 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, read the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hadi\/doc\/paper\/2016-hpca-tabla.pdf\u0022\u003Eresearch paper\u003C\/a\u003E and learn more about the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/index.html?WT.mc_id=hpf_logo\u0022\u003EIEEE\u003C\/a\u003E and their \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/conferences_events\/index.html?WT.mc_id=mm_conf_2\u0022\u003Eupcoming conferences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistant Professor Hadi Esmaeilzadeh and colleagues receive award for research paper on machine learning."}],"uid":"30267","created_gmt":"2016-03-21 13:49:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:09","author":"Devin Young","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"265791":{"id":"265791","type":"image","title":"Hadi Esmaeilzadeh","body":null,"created":"1449244039","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:47:19","changed":"1475894953","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:13","alt":"Hadi Esmaeilzadeh","file":{"fid":"198506","name":"hadi_cs.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hadi_cs_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hadi_cs_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27132,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hadi_cs_0.jpg?itok=BQGZhivS"}}},"media_ids":["265791"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3427","name":"High performance computing"},{"id":"171837","name":"HPCA"},{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"166940","name":"SCS"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDevin M. Young\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Assistant\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["devin.young@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}