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Events for August 23, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Aug 23, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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First Day of Classes
Mon, Aug 23, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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Ph.D. Defense: Weirong Jiang, High Performance Packet Forwarding on Parallel Architectures
Mon, Aug 23, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"High Performance Packet Forwarding on Parallel Architectures"Thesis Abstract:
Packet forwarding has long been a performance bottleneck in Internet infrastructure including routers and switches. While the throughput requirements continue to grow, power dissipation has emerged as an additional critical concern. Also, as the Internet constantly evolves, packet forwarding engines need to be flexible to enable future innovations. Although ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) have been widely used for packet forwarding, they have high power consumption and are inflexible for adapting to new addressing and
routing protocols.This thesis studies the use of low-power memory technology such as static random access memory (SRAM)
combined with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to develop high-throughput, power-efficient and
flexible solutions for various packet forwarding problems including IP lookup, packet classification and flexible flow matching.We propose an algorithm-architecture co-design framework to map state-of-the-art packet forwarding
algorithms onto SRAM-based parallel architectures. Several challenges for such mapping are addressed. High
throughput is achieved via pipelining or multi-processing. Meanwhile, enabled by the architecture design, the algorithms are optimized to reduce the memory requirements to fit large forwarding tables in the on-chip memory. In addition to the power reduction achieved by replacing TCAMs with SRAMs, we propose
architecture- and data structure -level optimizations to further lower the power consumption. We prototype our solutions on FPGA and demonstrate that they outperform the state-of-the-art with respect to throughput, memory requirement and power consumption.Defense Committee:
Murali Annavaram
Ramesh Govindan
Viktor K. Prasanna (Chair)Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Sigma Phi Delta Rush BBQ
Mon, Aug 23, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 10:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Student Activity
Sigma Phi Delta, the Premier Engineering Fraternity, is holding a BBQ to kick off rush week and a new school year! All undergraduate male students are invited. If you are interested in joining a fraternity, trying to find an internship, trying to find a full-time job, or even if you just want to enjoy some free food, come by! The house is located right on the corner of University and 30th St. just south of fraternity and sorority row. In addition to the BBQ on Monday, Sigma Phi Delta will be taking students to Anaheim for an Angels game, and to a shooting range and sushi on Wednesday. Check out Sigma Phi Delta's website for more information (www.spdalpha.org).
Location: Sigma Phi Delta (817 W 30th St.)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC Sigma Phi Delta
