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Focused on parallel and distributed computing
Thu, Apr 11, 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 #12
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nam Ma, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: DAG Scheduling with Weak Dependencies on Multiââ¬Âcore Systems
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Many computational solutions can be expressed as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with weighted nodes.
In parallel computing, a fundamental challenge is to efficiently distribute tasks to computing resources,
while preserving the precedence constraints among the tasks. Traditionally, such constraints are
preserved by starting a task after all its preceding tasks have completed. However, for a class of DAG
structured computations, a task can be partially executed with respect to each preceding task. We define
such relationship between the tasks as weak dependency. In this talk, we present our DAG scheduling
technique to exploit weak dependencies in a DAG. The exploitation of weak dependencies exposes more
parallelism for the task graph and reduces the execution time. On a stateââ¬Âofââ¬Âtheââ¬Âart generalââ¬Âpurpose
multicore system, the weak dependency based scheduler shows superior performance compared with a
baseline scheduler that is based on the traditional scheduling method.
Biography: Nam Ma is a Ph.D. candidate working with Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include parallel algorithms, high performance computing, and large scale machine learning. His PhD thesis focuses on the
scalability of probabilistic inference in graphical models on multicore platforms. He is a recipient of the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) fellowship award in 2008. He earned his BSc degree in Computer Science from Vietnam National University.
More Info: http://halcyon.usc.edu/~pk/prasannawebsite/teaching/ee598sp2013/
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013) 2.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
Event Link: http://halcyon.usc.edu/~pk/prasannawebsite/teaching/ee598sp2013/