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CENG Seminar
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Sanchez, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Talk Title: Scaling Software and Hardware for Thousand-Core Systems
Abstract: Scaling multicores to thousands of cores efficiently requires significant innovation across the software-hardware stack. On one hand, to expose ample parallelism, many applications will need to be divided in fine-grain tasks of a few thousand instructions each, and scheduled dynamically in a manner that addresses the three major difficulties of fine-grain parallelism: locality, load imbalance, and excessive overheads. On the other hand, hardware resources must scale efficiently, even as some of them are shared among thousands of threads. In particular, the memory hierarchy is hard to scale in several ways:conventional cache coherence techniques are prohibitively expensive beyond a few tens of cores, and caches cannot be easily shared among multiple threads or processes. Ideally, software should be able to configure these shared resources to provide good overall performance and quality of service (QoS) guarantees under all possible sharing scenarios.
In this talk, I will present several techniques to scale both software and hardware. First, I will describe a scheduler that uses high-level information from the programming model about parallelism, locality, and heterogeneity to perform scheduling dynamically and at fine granularity to avoid load imbalance. This fine-grain scheduler can use lightweight, flexible hardware support to keep overheads small as we scale up. Second, I will present a set of techniques that, together, enable scalable memory hierarchies that can be shared efficiently: ZCache, a cache design that achieves high associativity cheaply (e.g., 64-way associativity with the latency, energy and area of a 4-way cache) and is characterized by simple and accurate analytical models; Vantage, a cache partitioning technique that leverages the analytical guarantees of ZCache to implement scalable and efficient partitioning, enabling hundreds of threads to share the cache in a controlled manner, providing configurability and isolation; and SCD, which leverages ZCache to implement scalable cache coherence with QoS guarantees.
Biography: Daniel Sanchez is a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University. His research focuses on large-scale multicores, specifically on scalable and dynamic fine-grain runtimes and schedulers, hardware support for scheduling, scalable and efficient memory hierarchies, and architectures with QoS guarantees. He has earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and a BS in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM).
Host: Prof. Murali Annavaram
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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AME Department Special Seminar
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Oscar M. Curet, Postdoctoral Fellow. School of Engineering Brown University. Providence, RI.
Talk Title: Biological Propulsion, Biomimetics, and Flow Control: The Mechanics of Fin Propulsion and a Self-Excited Flapper
Abstract: Swimming and flying animals have a remarkable ability to navigate through complex environments. As they propel themselves, they interact with the surrounding fluid medium. This fluid-animal interaction plays a fundamental factor in how animals actuate their muscle as well as how they have evolved. In order to incorporate biological-based designs into the next generation of underwater or air vehicles, it is crucial to understand the role of fluid dynamics in animal locomotion. In this talk, I will focus on two highly maneuverable animals: knifefish and bats. A knifefish uses an electric field to "see" at night in the Amazon River, and it propels itself using a long ribbon fin to navigate around its complex environment. I will present experimental and computational work that unveils the mechanical basis of fin propulsion and the rich locomotor capability of these fish. In the second part of the talk, I will present a physical model to explore an open and controversial question in the evolution and origin of bat flight: how bats' ancestors could have begun to employ flapping motions in their flight. I explore this question using a simple physical model which captures two key biological features: compliance and camber. The model is composed of a cantilevered flat plate (capturing the compliance) with a hinged trailing flap (modeling the variable camber). For slow wind speeds, the model is stationary, but above a critical wind speed, the wing starts to oscillate due to an aeroelastic instability. A positive angle of attack on the wing results in a positive lift force. Moreover, this lift force is significantly enhanced once the wing starts to oscillate. I will present particle image velocimetry (PIV) data to shed light on the aerodynamics of the self-excited flapping wing and to identify the mechanisms that generate the enhanced lift force. I will also discuss the implications of the results on the evolution of powered biological flight.
Host: Prof. Geoff Spedding
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Robert Glen Rapp Engineering Research Building (RRB) - 208
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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Tell Me About Yourself: The Art of Networking
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
What is networking? Attend this workshop and learn how to build relationships and connections that can teach you more about your field. Discover USC networking resources that can help build your private network!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Max Lagally, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Talk Title: Semiconductor Nanomembranes: Sheet Science and Technology
Series: Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Host: Priya Vashishta
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lu-Maan Chang, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University , Professor and Director, High-Tech Facility Research Center, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University
Talk Title: HIGH-TECH FACILITY ENGINEERING IN NT ERA
Abstract:
Key Words: Cleanroom, Construction, Green Building, High-Tech, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology, Semiconductor, Vibration
Nanotechnology (NT) will not only improve the technology for understanding the foundation of matter at the atomic, molecular, and supermolecular levels but will have as profound an impact on our economy, quality of life, and education as the information technology (IT) has had in the last two decades.
To cope with the new challenges ahead, many academic institutes and industrial companies around the world have invested heavily in pursuing Nano-R&D and Nano-Manufacturing (Nano-R&D&M) in recent years. Predictably, the demand for high-tech facilities and the corresponding skillful engineers will be strong and inevitable. Presently, there is no university in Asia offering high-tech facility engineering program specifically for Nano-R&D&M. To facilitate the advancement of Nano-R&D&M, and to meet the potential demand of the engineers, the Civil Engineering Department of National Taiwan University initiated a High-Tech Facility Research Center in fall 2006 and is offering a High-Tech Facility Design course in spring 2007.
This paper will begin with the introduction of NT and its impact on facility design and construction following by the discussion of the sensitivity in micro-vibration of high performance nano-scopes. Since most of the Nano-R&D&M processes must be done in a stringently controlled cleanroom, without a proper cleanroom, the Nano-R&D&M can neither be performed well nor advanced further. Therefore, the paper will then focus on the fundamentals in cleanroom design. Finally, the NTU High-Tech Research Center and the High-Tech Facility Design course will be briefly presented.
This paper was published in CECI engineering technology, CECI, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2007, Vol.74, pp.22-37
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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ACM's Emerging Tech General Meeting
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
We are lining up a great group of representatives to talk about emerging technology and practices in the industry! If you are all about cutting-edge technology and how they will be changing computer science and the way we live, you will not want to be missing this meeting!
Confirmed attendees include Amazon A2Z and Don Dini representing
Method in Mind! (Rumor has it that past CSCI102 professor Brent Nash will be visiting representing Amazon A2Z!)Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 152
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Association for Computing Machinery
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Do You Dream in Color?
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Tuesday, February 14, at 9 a.m.
USC Students: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveDreamTransport.php?RSVPEvtCode=201
USC Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=208
General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=201
Transportation will be provided for USC students. Buses will depart USC at 6 p.m. and return to campus at 9:30 p.m. If you would like to use the provided transportation, you must make a reservation.
A fascinating evening of performance and conversation will explore issues raised by blindness. The event will feature the West Coast premiere of Do You Dream in Color?, composed by Bruce Adolphe, sung by blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin, who is also the author of the text, and accompanied by acclaimed pianist Marija Stroke. Following the performance, Rubin and Adolphe will participate in a conversation with USC University Professor and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and Mark Humayun, a distinguished professor of ophthalmology at USC and pioneer of retinal transplants.
About the Artists and Speakers
Laurie Rubin has been praised by the New York Times for her âcompelling artistryâ and âcommunicative power.â The Los Angeles Times wrote that âRubin seems to have an especially acute intuition about the power and subtleties of soundâ and is a âcharismatic, multi-textured performer.â
Recently named composer-in-residence at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute, Bruce Adolphe has composed music for Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sylvia McNair, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Brentano String Quartet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Miami Quartet, Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Pianist Marija Stroke has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia and Hong Kong, in chamber-music festivals and in solo performances.
Antonio Damasio is University Professor and David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. Damasio has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how the brain generates mind and behavior and described his discoveries in books such as Descartesâ Error and Looking for Spinoza. Damasioâs newest book is Self Comes to Mind. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Honda Prize and the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology.
Dr. Mark Humayun is a professor of ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute and a leader in the treatment of the most challenging eye diseases through advanced engineering. Dr. Humayun is focused on developing therapies for retinal degenerations, macular degenerations, retinovascular diseases, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.
Organized by Antonio Damasio (Neuroscience). Co-sponsored by Classical KUSC.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: AT&T Center Theatre, 1150 South Olive Street, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
