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<h2><a name="HTML">4th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and
Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2011</a></h2>
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<span class="style10"><strong>Co-located with </strong> <a
href="http://sc11.supercomputing.org/"><strong>Supercomputing/SC
2011</strong></a> <strong><br>
Seattle Washington -- November 14th, 2011</strong></span>
<h4> <a name="News">News</a></h4>
<ul>
<li class="style9"><strong>Keynote Speaker: </strong>Professor
David Abramson from Monash University, Australia </li>
<li class="style9"><a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/JGC-DataCloud-2012/index.html">
<strong>Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the
Clouds in the Springer Journal of Grid Computing</strong></a></li>
<li class="style9"><strong><a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud-SC11/index.html">The
Second International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in
the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11) 2011, co-located at
Supercomputing/SC 2011, November 14th, 2011</a></strong></li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="Overview">Overview</a></h4>
<p class="style6">The 4th workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids
and Supercomputers (MTAGS) will provide the scientific community a
dedicated forum for presenting new research, development, and
deployment efforts of large-scale many-task computing (MTC)
applications on large scale clusters, Grids, Supercomputers, and
Cloud Computing infrastructure. MTC, the theme of the workshop
encompasses loosely coupled applications, which are generally
composed of many tasks (both independent and dependent tasks) to
achieve some larger application goal. This workshop will cover
challenges that can hamper efficiency and utilization in running
applications on large-scale systems, such as local resource
manager scalability and granularity, efficient utilization of raw
hardware, parallel file system contention and scalability, data
management, I/O management, reliability at scale, and application
scalability. We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to
MTC on large scale systems. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and
accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as
part of the ACM digital library (pending approval). The workshop
will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2011
Conference in Seattle Washington on November 14th, 2011. </p>
<p class="style6">For more information, please see <a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/index.html">
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/</a>. For more
information on past workshops, please see <a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS10/index.html">MTAGS10</a>,
<a href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS09/index.html">MTAGS09</a>,
and <a href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS08/index.html">MTAGS08</a>.
We also ran a <a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TPDS_MTC/index.html">Special
Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)</a> which has appeared
in June 2011; the proceedings can be found online at <a
href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/2011/06/ttd201106toc.htm">
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/2011/06/ttd201106toc.htm</a>.
We, the workshop organizers, also published two papers that are
highly relevant to this workshop. One paper is titled "<a
href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/research/publications/2008_SC08_Falkon_BGP.pdf">Toward
Loosely Coupled Programming on Petascale Systems</a>", and was
published in <a href="http://sc08.supercomp.org/">SC08</a>; the
second paper is titled “<a
href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/research/publications/2008_MTAGS08_MTC.pdf">Many-Task
Computing for Grids and Supercomputers</a>”, which was published
in <a href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS08/index.html">MTAGS08</a>.
</p>
<h4><a name="Topics">Topics</a></h4>
<p><span class="style6">We invite the submission of original work
that is related to the topics below. The papers can be either
short (5 pages) position papers, or long (10 pages) research
papers. Topics of interest include (in the context of Many-Task
Computing):</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span class="style6"> Compute Resource Management</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="style6">Scheduling</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Job execution frameworks</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Local resource manager extensions</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Performance evaluation of resource
managers in use on large scale systems</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Dynamic resource provisioning</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Techniques to manage many-core
resources and/or GPUs</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Challenges and opportunities in
running many-task workloads on HPC systems</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Challenges and opportunities in
running many-task workloads on Cloud Computing
infrastructure</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="style6"> Storage architectures and
implementations</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="style6">Distributed file systems</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Parallel file systems</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Distributed meta-data management</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Content distribution systems for
large data</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Data caching frameworks and
techniques</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Data management within and across
data centers</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Data-aware scheduling</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Data-intensive computing applications</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Eventual-consistency storage usage
and management</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="style6"> Programming models and tools</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="style6">Map-reduce and its generalizations</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Many-task computing middleware and
applications</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Parallel programming frameworks</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Ensemble MPI techniques and
frameworks</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Service-oriented science applications</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="style6"> Large-Scale Workflow Systems</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="style6">Workflow system performance and
scalability analysis</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Scalability of workflow systems</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Workflow infrastructure and e-Science
middleware</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Programming Paradigms and Models</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="style6"> Large-Scale Many-Task Applications</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="style6">High-throughput computing (HTC)
applications</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Data-intensive applications</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Quasi-supercomputing applications,
deployments, and experiences</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Performance Evaluation</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="style6"> Performance evaluation</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="style6">Real systems</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Simulations</span></li>
<li><span class="style6">Reliability of large systems </span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="Important_Dates">Important Dates</a></h4>
<ul class="style6">
<li>Abstract submission: September 2, 2011 </li>
<li>Paper submission: September 9, 2011 </li>
<li>Acceptance notification: October 7, 2011 </li>
<li>Final papers due: October 28, 2011 </li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="Paper_Submission">Paper Submission</a></h4>
<p>Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original
work of not more than 10 pages of double column text using single
spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11
manuscript guidelines (<a
href="http://www.acm.org/publications/instructions_for_proceedings_volumes">http://www.acm.org/publications/instructions_for_proceedings_volumes</a>);
document templates can be found at <a
href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a>.
We are also seeking position papers of no more than 5 pages in
length. A 250 word abstract (PDF format) must be submitted online
at <a href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2011/">
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2011/</a> before the
deadline of September 2nd, 2011 at 11:59PM PST; the final 5/10
page papers in PDF format will be due on September 9th, 2011 at
11:59PM PST. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers
will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM
digital library (pending approval). Notifications of the paper
decisions will be sent out by October 7th, 2011. Selected
excellent work may be eligible for additional post-conference
publication as journal articles or book chapters, such as the
previous <a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TPDS_MTC/index.html">Special
Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)</a> which has appeared
in June 2011. Submission implies the willingness of at least one
of the authors to register and present the paper. For more
information, please <a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/index.html">
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/</a>, or send email to
<a href="mailto:mtags11-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu">
mtags11-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu</a>. </p>
<h4><a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/organization.html"
name="Organization">Organization</a></h4>
<p><strong>General Chairs (<a
href="mailto:mtags11-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu">mtags11-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu</a>)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne
National Laboratory, USA</li>
<li>Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA </li>
<li>Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of
China, China </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Steering Committee</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>David Abramson, Monash University, Australia </li>
<li>Jack Dongara, University of Tennessee, USA </li>
<li>Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA</li>
<li>Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA</li>
<li>Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA </li>
<li>Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</li>
<li>Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Program Committee</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA</li>
<li>Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA</li>
<li>Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia</li>
<li>Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA</li>
<li>Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands</li>
<li>Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain</li>
<li>Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA </li>
<li>Hui Jin, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</li>
<li>Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA</li>
<li>Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA</li>
<li>Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</li>
<li>Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill, USA
</li>
<li>Jose Moreira, IBM Research, USA </li>
<li>Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA </li>
<li>Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA </li>
<li>Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
USA</li>
<li>Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada</li>
<li>Alain Roy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA</li>
<li>Edward Walker, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA </li>
<li>Mike Wilde, University of Chicago & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA </li>
<li>Matthew Woitaszek, The University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, USA</li>
<li>Ken Yocum, University of California at San Diego, USA </li>
</ul>
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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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