Prof. Murali Annavaram’s team presenting SuperBP: Design Space Exploration of Perceptron-Based Branch Predictors for Superconducting CPUs at MICRO 2023 Conference
Sustainable Computing: A Quantitative Perspective
Prof. Massoud Pedram presented at the NSF workshop SUSCOMP (December 12, 2022)
USC-led DISCoVER Program Awarded $15.0 Million by NSF
Prof. Pedram and Prof. Pinkston made a joint presentation titled Challenges and Opportunities for Superconductive Computing at the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference held in Washington D.C. (September 7-19, 2022).
Prof. Pedram gave a tutorial about challenges and opportunities for superconductive single flux quantum logic devices and circuits at the Int’l Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design held in Boston MA (August 1-2, 2022).
Prof. Pedram delivered a tutorial at the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design on August 2nd. His presentation was titled “Superconductive Single Flux Quantum Logic Devices and Circuits: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities”.
Prof. Pedram delivered an invited talk at the Foundations of Superconducting Digital Logic Workshop on August 1st. His presentation focused on discussing best utilizations of low-energy high-speed advantages of superconducting logic.
ECE faculty are key partners in ambitious $15M project to produce superconductive integrated circuits and systems
“Data centers are filled with row after row of multiprocessors, and every chip dissipates hundreds of watts of energy,” says Eby Friedman, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester. “The energy required to support all of the cloud computing in the world is about five percent of the total energy on the planet. It’s shocking.”
Friedman and three colleagues at Rochester are key partners in an ambitious, $15 million project, led by the University of Southern California, to develop next-generation, superconductive integrated circuits—on chips a third of an inch in size—that would be at least 100 times more energy efficient and operate more than 10 times faster than the CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology currently used.
NSF announces 2022 Expeditions in Computing awardees
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the 2022 awardees of the Expeditions in Computing awards. The two awardees plan ambitious undertakings to explore emerging and transformative computing technologies to innovate superconducting materials, devices and circuits and develop organic, neuron-based computing systems.
NSF established the Expeditions program to leverage past successes and create transformative opportunities that will continue to advance computer information science and engineering research and development well into the future. This investment, part of NSF's mission to advance fundamental research that furthers emerging computing technologies and information science and engineering, commits $15 million in funding to each awardee over a 7-year period.
USC Viterbi-Led Team Wins $15 Million NSF Expeditions in Computing Award, One of Only Two Announced This Year
Massoud Pedram will be PI for multi-university DISCoVER team focused on green computing, superconductor electronics
Computing forms the foundation through which a wide range of societal challenges are being tackled: from automation to climate change. But the computing industry is at a crossroads with ever-increasing scaling challenges, and significant power demands. The continued growth of computing requires transformational technologies that can reduce power and enable groundbreaking discoveries of the future. It is with this challenge in mind that the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Expeditions in Computing program has awarded $15 million to the DISCoVER Expedition team led by USC, along with a consortium of universities including Auburn University, Cornell University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, University of Rochester, and Yokohama National University (the international academic partner). This is one of only two national Expeditions Awards announced this year.