Events for the 2nd week of September
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ECE Seminar - Deconstructing Distributed Deep Learning (and other problems)
Thu, Sep 08, 2022 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Leana Golubchik, Stephen and Etta Varra Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Deconstructing Distributed Deep Learning (and other problems)
Abstract: Deep learning has made substantial strides in many applications. New training techniques, larger datasets, increased computing power, and easy-to-use machine learning frameworks all contribute to this success. An important missing piece is that deep learning frameworks do not assist users with provisioning cloud resources; most users need to try different job configurations to determine the resulting training performance. When resources are shared among hundreds of jobs, this approach quickly becomes infeasible. At a larger scale, when multiple datacenters need to manage deep learning (and other) workloads, different degrees of affinity for their resources create incentives to collaborate, e.g., as in cloud federations. In this talk, I will focus on our approach to predicting performance metrics and scheduling algorithms that use these metrics to guide resource allocation. Our goal is to broaden the population of users capable of developing deep learning models and applying them to novel applications. I will also discuss resource sharing for such workloads, mainly in the context of hybrid cloud federations, and conclude with some future directions.
Biography: Leana Golubchik is the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor at USC. She also serves as the Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program. Prior to that, she was on the faculty at the University of Maryland and Columbia University. Leana received her PhD from UCLA. Her research interests are broadly in the design and evaluation of large scale distributed systems, including hybrid clouds and data centers and their applications in data analytics, machine learning, and privacy. Leana received several awards, including the IBM Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Okawa Foundation Award, the WTS-LA Diversity Leadership Award, the USC Remarkable Women Award, and the USC Mellon Culture of Mentoring Award. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS) and on the Editorial Board of the Performance Evaluation journal as well as a member of the IFIP WG 7.3 (elected in 2000). She is a Fellow of AAAS.
Host: Dr. Richard M. Leahy (leahy@sipi.usc.edu)
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92960680288?pwd=QndJKzUrSlVsaXZCSkJKRTlldTN0UT09More Information: ECE Seminar Announcement-Golubchik-090822.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92960680288?pwd=QndJKzUrSlVsaXZCSkJKRTlldTN0UT09
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Center of Autonomy and AI, Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things, and Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 09, 2022 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Oscar Morales-Ponce, Department of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
Talk Title: Distributed Algorithms for Mobile Robots
Series: Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things
Abstract: A set of inexpensive mobile robots can work together to solve different tasks efficiently. However, the design and analysis of correct algorithms are challenging and require careful analysis. In this talk, we present recent results of distributed algorithms for mobile robots. Then, we present a new framework that aims to simplify the implementation of distributed algorithms in physical robots and conclude with some preliminary results.
Biography: Dr. Oscar Morales-Ponce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Morales-Ponce's research focuses on the design and analysis of distributed algorithms for mobile robots. He has applied his theoretical research to cyber-physical systems. His research interests include theoretical and practical aspects of distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, mobile robots, and computational geometry.
Zoom Meeting ID: 973 4638 7081
Zoom Passcode: 47519
Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, bkrishna@usc.edu
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97346387081?pwd=WlVsemQ0dUhmYzR1WC84Nk5Ua1hzUT09Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97346387081?pwd=WlVsemQ0dUhmYzR1WC84Nk5Ua1hzUT09
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia White
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Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series on Integrated Systems
Fri, Sep 09, 2022 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jaydeep Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Talk Title: Ising-Memory: Advancing Combinatorial Optimization Accelerators with Ising Computations in Memory
Host: Hossein Hashemi, Mike Chen and Constantine Sideris
More Information: MHI Seminar Series IS - Jaydeep Kulkarni.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jenny Lin