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10x10: A New Paradigm for Computer Architecture (Meeting the Challenges of the New Technology Scaling Landscape)
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Andrew A. Chien, Adjunct Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego
Talk Title: 10x10: A New Paradigm for Computer Architecture (Meeting the Challenges of the New Technology Scaling Landscape)
Abstract: Two decades of microprocessor architecture enabled by transistor scaling in density, speed, and energy delivered 1000-fold performance improvement, enabling computing as we know it today â tiny, powerful, inexpensive, and therefore ubiquitous. Recent semiconductor process generations and technology projections suggest future scaling in density, but only decreasing improvements in transistor speed and energy. In this era of energy-constrained performance, the industry has undertaken a shift to rapidly increasing parallelism (multicore). This shift is broad based, including essentially all computers â smart phones, laptops, cloud data centers, and supercomputers.
In the new technology scaling landscape, more narrowly specialized designs (heterogeneity) become more attractive and have attracted much study, but computer architects have lacked a paradigm to deal with it systematically. We believe it is time to move beyond the general purpose architecture paradigm and 90/10 optimization which has served us well for 25 years, and replace it with a new paradigm, â10x10â, which divides workloads into clusters, enabling systematic exploitation of specialization in the architecture, implementation, and software. We believe such 10x10 can enable 10x improvement in energy efficiency and performance compared to conventional approaches. We call this new paradigm â10x10â because it divides the workloads and optimizes for 10 different 10% cases, not a monolithic 90/10. We will outline the critical challenges to this approach and implications for future computing systems.
Biography: Dr. Andrew A. Chien is former Vice President of Research of Intel Corporation. He served as a Vice President of Intel Labs and Intel Research / Future Technologies Research where he led a âbold, edgyâ research agenda in disruptive technologies. Chien has launched imaginative new efforts in robotics, wireless power, sensing and perception, nucleic acid sequencing, networking, cloud, and ethnography. Working with external partners, Chien was instrumental in creation of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC) focused on parallel software and Open Cirrus Consortium focused on Cloud computing.
For more than 20 years, Chien has been a global leader in research and education. Chienâs previous positions include the Science Applications International Corporation Endowed Chair Professor in the department of computer science and engineering, and created the Center for Networked Systems at the University of California at San Diego. While at UCSD, he also founded Entropia, a widely-known Internet Grid computing startup. From 1990 to 1998, Chien was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with joint appointments at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) where he was a research leader for parallel computing software and hardware, and developed the well-known Fast Messages, HPVM, and Windows NT Supercluster systems.
Dr. Chien is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has published over 130 technical papers. Chien currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Computing Research Association (CRA), Advisory Board of the National Science Foundationâs Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate, and Editorial Board of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM). Chien received his Bachelor's in electrical engineering, Master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Host: Sr Assoc Dean Timothy Pinkston
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lynden A. Archer,
Talk Title: Nanoscale Organic Hybrid Materials (NOHMs)
Series: Distinguished Lectures Series
Host: Professor Tsotsis
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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Oral Defense Dissertation
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yuan-Hung "Paul" Tan, Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: Oscillations of Semi-Enclosed Water Body Induced by Hurricanes
Abstract:
A numerical study is conducted to simulate the oscillations (storm surges) of semi-enclosed water body induced by hurricanes. For application using the numerical model developed in the present study, Lake Pontchartrain (located in southeastern Louisiana) is chosen as the semi-enclosed water body and Hurricane Katrina (the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States) is chosen as the hurricane. There are three (3) reasons to choose Lake Pontcharrain and Hurricane Katrina: 1. Storm surge built up in Lake Pontchartrain during Hurricane Katrina, 2. Wind drove water into Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Katrina approached from the Gulf of Mexico, and 3. The extensive field data, gathered by the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET), is available to provide the needed comparison of numerical result and prototype data on the oscillations at Lake Pontchartrain induced by Hurricane Katrina.
The depth-average, non-linear shallow-water equations (NLSW) are use as the governing equations. The finite-volume method (FVM) is employed to solve the governing shallow-water equations. In order to validate the present model, the hydrographs due to Hurricane Katrina obtained from the present model are compared with the field data reported by IPET at eight (8) sites along the shores and the center of Lake Pontchartrain. These eight (8) sites are: the 17th street Canal, the Orleans Avenue Canal, the London Avenue Canal, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC)-Lakefront Airport, Midlake, Bayou Labranch, Pass Manchac, and Little Irish Bayou.
The time at which the maximum water surface elevation (WSE) occurs as predicted by the present model is almost identical to the time at which the maximum water level is observed at the 17th Street Canal, the Orleans Avenue Canal, the London Avenue Canal, and the IHNC-Lakefront Airport sites. Furthermore, the present model accurately predicts the general trend of the water level when the hydrographs due to Hurricane Katrina are compared with the observed hydrographs at the 17th Street Canal, the Orleans Avenue Canal, the London Avenue Canal, the IHNC-Lakefront Airport, and the Midlake sites. However, the present model only reasonably predicts the general trend of the water level when the hydrographs due to Hurricane Katrina are compared with the observed hydrographs at the Bayou La Branche (named Bayou Labranch by IPET), the Pass Manchac, and the Little Irish Bayou sites.
The present model is further applied to investigate the oscillations at Lake Pontchartrain induced by four (4) synthetic hurricanes within the time-span of 00:00 UTC August 29, 2005 to 00:00 UTC August 30, 2005: Case 1. Hurricane Katrina tracks on its original route, Case 2. Hurricane Katrina tracks 36 km west of its original route, Case 3. Hurricane Katrina tracks 72 km west of its original route, and Case 4. Hurricane Katrina tracks on its original route with forward speeds reduced by 16% ~ 45% (or altered from 15 km/h ~ 36 km/h to 15 km/h ~ 22 km/h). These are done to assess the impact of hurricanes under different risk conditions. It is found that much more severe catastrophes in metro New Orleans and neighboring parishes can be expected under the scenarios of: Case 2. Hurricane Katrina passes through the east part of New Orleans, Louisiana and both the east and central parts of Lake Pontchartrain and Case 4. Hurricane Katrina passes through the regions nearby the east shore of Lake Pontchartrain with reduced forward speeds.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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ASCE General Meeting #2/ Learning to Create your own Engineering Company
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Hope you all are excited for the next general meeting!
Our speaker will be Jacqueline Patterson, the JL of JL Patterson, a recognized rail design authority which was recently recognized as one of the "Best Civil Engineering Firms to Work For" by CE News Magazine.
Jackie will be talking about entrepreneurship in engineering, a subject she is well versed in since she started JL Patterson as a one-woman firm.
Put this meeting in your calendar!: Thursday September 23 at 5 pm. Room TBA. Food will be provided.
USC American Society of Civil Engineers
www.uscasce.com
Membership Form
Please fill out a membership form for the year 2010-2011, write a check for $30, made out to USC ASCE, and return ASAP to KAP 241. We will be accepting new members throughout the academic year. If you want to be a part of Concrete Canoe, Environmental or Steel Bridge or on any of the other teams at the regional conference this spring then you need to be a paid member. The membership form can be found on our website.
http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asce/membership.htmLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 158
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Fall Spotlight - Chemical Engineering
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
A panel discussion featuring industry representatives, alumni, faculty and current student discussing opportunities in Chemical Engineering. For more detailed information please visit the Spotlight website at - http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/fye/spotlight.htm
Dinner is provided. RSVP to viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu with subject line: "RSVP for Spotlight on 9/23".Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Funn Concrete Canoe Meeting!!
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
What's up my fellow Venetians!!
Congratulations for choosing Venice as our theme for this years concrete canoe!
Alright September 23 after the ASCE general meeting around 6pm in KAP, we will be having a FUNN MEETING to discuss the theme and the process of how we are going to make this years canoe!!
Hope to see you all there!!
Membership Form
Please fill out a membership form for the year 2010-2011, write a check for $30, made out to USC ASCE, and return ASAP to KAP 241. We will be accepting new members throughout the academic year. If you want to be a part of Concrete Canoe team at the regional conference this spring then you need to be a paid member. The membership form can be found on our website.
http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asce/membership.htmLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Civil Engineers
