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CMRR Report Number 34 University of California, San Diego ISSN: 0888-7381 Report Research Highlight Number 34 Summer 2010 FastMag: Fast MicroMagnetic Solver Talke and de Callafon Awards for Large-Scale Simulations rank Talke, an Endowed Chaired Professor at CMRR has been F selected to receive the 2010 Mayo D. Hersey Award from the Contents: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This award, as described on the ASME website, was “established in 1965, and is Shannon 2 given in recognition of distinguished and continued contribution Lecture & over a substantial period of time to the advancement of lubrication Fellowship science and engineering. Distinguished contributions may result From the 3 from significant original research in one or more of the many Director scientific disciplines related to lubrication.” Professor Talke was cited “for distinguished and continued fundamental contributions in research on the tribological and mechanical limits of magnetic recording storage technology.” Research 4-9 Highlight INSIC’s 2010 Technical Achievement Award, which recognizes Gifts & Grants the contributor(s) of a specific technical achievement in an INSIC & Awards 8 Research Program, for contributions judged to provide a significant Flash Memory 9 advancement toward the Program’s goals, was presented to Summit Professor Raymond de Callafon of the University of California, Graduating 10 San Diego, who was recognized for his pioneering research in the Students design and application of adaptive servo technology for the Schultz Prize optimization of tape drive performance in the INSIC TAPE CMRR Research Program. Research 10 Review Summer 11 The 21st Magnetic Recording Conference Internships Selected Papers 12-13 On August 16 - 18th 2010, CMRR & Talks hosted the 21st TMR Conference. Degrees 13 Over 100 people attended the talks Awarded and poster sessions. This year the New Graduate 14 Students focus was magnetic recording media Visiting 15 and tribology. Over 30 papers were Scholars & presented and will be published in the Students IEEE Transaction on Magnetics. Staff Service 16 Awards Page 2 CMRR Report Shannon Memorial Lecture Professor Emeritus Andrew Viterbi, the 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient, presented the 8th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture. His talk was entitled “Markov, Wiener and Shannon: a Progression.” Dr. Andrew Viterbi is a co-founder and retired Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. He spent equal portions of his career in industry, having previously co-founded Linkabit Corporation, and in academia as Professor in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, first at UCLA and then at UCSD, at which he is now Professor Emeritus. He is currently president of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company. He also serves as a Presidential Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California and a distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His principal research contribution, the Viterbi Algorithm, is used in most digital cellular phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as in such diverse fields as magnetic recording, voice recognition and DNA sequence analysis. More recently, he concentrated his efforts on establishing CDMA as the multiple access technology of choice for cellular telephony and wireless data communication. Dr. Viterbi has received numerous honors both in the USA and internationally. Among these are eight honorary doctorates, from universities in Canada, Israel, Italy and the USA. He has received several awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers including the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the Claude E. Shannon and the James Clerk Maxwell Awards. Additionally he has received awards from the Marconi Society, the NEC C&C Foundation and the Eduard Rhein Foundation, as well as the Christopher Columbus Medal, the Franklin Medal, the Robert Noyce Semiconductor Industry Award and the Millennium Laureate Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received an honorary title from the President of Italy and the National Medal of Science from the President of the United States. 2nd Annual Non-volatile Memories Workshop March 6-8, 2011 For Information : http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/2011/ Shannon Memorial Fellowship Ehsan Ardestanizadeh, a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is the 2010-2011 recipient of the Shannon Memorial Fellowship. This endowed fellowship was created to honor an outstanding graduate student at UCSD whose research is in the field of information theory. Mr. Ardestanizadeh completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2004, and received a Master’s degree from the ECE Department at UCSD in 2007. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. Professor Jack K. Wolf & degree in ECE under the supervision of professors Massimo Franceschetti, Tara Javidi, Ehsan Ardestanizadeh and Young-Han Kim at UCSD. Ehsan’s research area lies in the intersection of information theory, estimation, and control. More specifically, he is interested in analyzing the role of feedback in communication systems, and studying the interconnection between feedback communication and control problems. Number 34 Page 3 From the Director Frank Talke, and Prof. Jack Wolf – have continued to make fundamental technical contributions while garnering This is the 16th issue of CMRR Report to appear the full panoply of professional since the revival of our semi-annual newsletter in recognition and awards. And 2002. Looking back at previous issues brings to mind the Center has maintained a the oft-quoted adage: “The more things change, the steady flow of exceptionally more they stay the same.” talented graduates and postdocs to industry, academia, and government labs. The most evident change is in the storage industry itself. The corporate landscape of the hard drive The other constant during this period of time has been business has dramatically changed. Of the 12 the dedication of our administrative and technical corporate sponsors listed in that inaugural issue, 7 of staff members. Our incomparable business officers – the 10 companies working on hard drive technology Cheryl Hacker and Iris Villanueva – along with our no longer exist as separate entities, having abandoned permanent support personnel – Ray Descoteaux, or sold their disk drive businesses. New players have Howard Harper, Jan Neumann James, Marcia Levitt, arisen (though some no longer survive). Betty Manoulian, Jack Philhower, and Dawn Talbot – Technologically, the concerted thrust toward the have provided invaluable service to the Center and its successful development of perpendicular recording sponsors, helping to define its uniquely welcoming has been replaced by uncertainty as to what should be character and its reputation for meticulous the next major technology transition. At the same organization. Remarkably, Iris, Ray, Betty, and Jan time, rapidly evolving solid-state, nonvolatile- have collectively contributed 100 years of service to memory technology has opened the door to new CMRR and UCSD. Our debt to these staff members is storage system architectures and applications. enormous. Against this backdrop of change, what has stayed the There is another significant change on the horizon, same is CMRR’s commitment to excellence, namely, a transition in the Center’s leadership. My innovation, and relevance in its research and term as CMRR Director has come to an end, and a educational programs We have worked hard to stay search is underway for my successor. So this will be at the forefront technically, for example, through my final “From the Director” column, and I want to focused interdisciplinary initiatives such as our close by expressing my sincere gratitude to all Patterned Media and Non-Volatile Memories projects. members of the CMRR family for their dedication to We added distinguished Prof. Sungho Jin (MAE/NE) the Center and for the tremendous support they pro- and CMRR Endowed Chaired Prof. Eric Fullerton vided to me during my decade as Director. I greatly (ECE/NE) to our faculty roster. We recruited several look forward to working with them and our affiliated faculty members whose unique talents have colleagues in the storage industry as a “regular” broadened and deepened the scope of the Center’s CMRR professor, continuing to push the limits of the research – Prof. Raymond de Callafon (MAE), Prof. “continuing miracle of information storage Vitaliy Lomakin (ECE), and Prof. Steve Swanson technology.” (CSE). These and other CMRR faculty members and researchers – Prof. Ami Berkowitz, Prof. Neal Now, please enjoy the rest of this issue of CMRR Bertram, Dr. Gordon Hughes, Dr. Fred Spada, Prof. Report. Page 4 CMRR Report Research Highlight FastMag: Fast Micromagnetic Solver for Large-Scale Simulations R. Chang, S. Li, M.V. Lubarda, B. Livshitz, and V. Lomakin University of California, San Diego 1 Introduction Micromagnetic solvers have a high predictive power and are important for our ability to analyze and design magnetic components. Simulating a complex structure may be very time-consuming and the development of fast computational methods for micromagnetics is of high importance. Modern and future computational tools should rely on parallelization to allow for continuing scaling
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