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Focused on parallel and distributed computingThu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #7
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Wong, PhD Student, Electrical Engineerin, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Energy Proportional Datacenter Servers
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Energy proportionality (EP), the notion where power consumption should be proportional to utilization, is becoming an increasingly important concept in datacenter servers. In this talk, we introduce metrics to accurately quantify energy proportionality and analyze historical EP trends to identify opportunities to improve EP. We find that there exists large energy proportionality gap at low utilization and we present KnightShift, a server-level heterogeneous server that introduces an active low-power mode through the addition of a tightly-coupled compute node called the Knight. We evaluated KnightShift against a variety of real-world datacenter workloads using a combination of prototyping and simulation, showing up to 75% energy savings with tail latency bounded by the latency of the Knight and up to 14% improvement to Performance per TCO dollar spent.
Biography: Daniel Wong is a PhD student working with Prof. Murali Annavaram in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on novel energy efficient architectures spanning from datacenter servers to GPGPUs. His research has been recognized as one of IEEE Microââ¬â¢s Top Picks in Computer Architecture for 2013. He earned his BS degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Viterbi Keynote Lecture
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John M. Cioffi, Ph.D., Hitachi Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Talk Title: Ubiquitous Cost-Effective Gigabit per Second Broadband Access: It's Coming, and Not The Way You Think!
Series: Distinguished Lecturer Series
Abstract: Billions of people worldwide regularly use and depend upon the Internet in their daily lives. The volume of both mobile data and fixed-line data broadband access consequently grows rapidly along with the need for higher speeds. This talk investigates an evolution of broadband access speeds and technology that addresses the demand cost effectively and in a timely manner, posing a solution that enables 100 Mbps to Gbps broadband access to all for realistic costs. Contributions to various methods within the technology by A. Viterbi will also be noted.
Biography: John M. Cioffi is Chairman and CEO of ASSIA, Inc, a Redwood City, CA based company. ASSIA is known for pioneering DSL management software sold to DSL service providers, and specifically for introducing Dynamic Spectrum Management or DSM. Cioffi is also the Hitachi Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he held a tenured endowed professorship before retiring after 22 full-time years. Cioffi received his BSEE from the University of Illinois, 1978; PhDEE from Stanford, 1984; and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2010. He worked for Bell Laboratories, 1978-1984; IBM Research, 1984-1986; and as a professor at Stanford University, 1986-2008. Cioffi also founded Amati Communications Corp. in 1991 (purchased by TI in 1997 for its DSL technology) and was officer/director from 1991-1997. Cioffi designed the world's first ADSL and VDSL modems, which today account for roughly 98% of the 400 million DSL connections worldwide.
Cioffi currently also serves on the Board of Directors of Alto Beam and the Marconi Foundation, and has previously served on the boards of eight other public and private companies. He has received various awards, including the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell, Kobayashi, and Millennium Medals/Awards (2010, 2001, 2000), The Economist's 2010 Innovation Award, International Marconi Fellow (2006), Member, United States National and UK Royal Academies of Engineering (2001, 2009), IEEE Fellow (1996), IEE JJ Tomson Medal (2000), University of Illinois Outstanding Alumnus (2009) and Distinguished Alumnus (2010). Cioffi has published several hundred technical papers and is the inventor named on more than 100 additional patents, many of which are heavily licensed in the communication industry.
Host: Drs. Sandeep Gupta and Alexander Sawchuk
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/events/keynote/viterbi/john-cioffi.htm
Webcast: http://geromedia.usc.edu/Gerontology/Play/c66d78ed8e22483599c47f84a63849411dMore Information: 20130228 Cioffi Print.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 124
WebCast Link: http://geromedia.usc.edu/Gerontology/Play/c66d78ed8e22483599c47f84a63849411d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/events/keynote/viterbi/john-cioffi.htm
