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<pre>Call for Participation
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The 5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/</a>
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November 12th, 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12)
Location: 155-C
Date: November 12th, 2012
Time: 9AM - 5:30PM
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The 5th 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. The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2012
Conference in Salt Lake City Utah on November 12th, 2012. For more information, please
see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/</a>.
Some highlights of the upcoming workshop program:
* Win a Google Nexus 7 tablet (visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/prize.html">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/prize.html</a>);
Must be present at 5:30PM on November 12th, 2012, at the workshop to win.
* Keynote Talk: Adaptive Runtime Systems meet needs of many task computing by
Dr. Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, Professor of Computer Science, University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
* Invited Talk: Petascale Challenge Award: Data Management for Parallel Scripting, by
Zhao Zhang (UChicago)
* Invited Talk: Biggest Impact Award: IaaS Cloud Benchmarking: Approaches, Challenges,
and Experience, by Alex Iosup (TUDelft)
* Invited Talk: Cloud Challenge Award: Portable Data Mining on Azure and HPC Platforms,
by Judy Qiu (IndianaU)
* Paper Talk: Accessible Datastore of High-Throughput Calculations: Experiences from
the Materials Project
* Paper Talk: Resource Management for Dynamic MapReduce Clusters in Multicluster
Systems
* Paper Talk: A Comparative Study of Data Processing Approaches for Text Processing
Workflows
* Paper Talk: A Scalable Master-Worker Architecture for PaaS Clouds
* Paper Talk: HOG:Distributed Hadoop MapReduce on the Grid
* Paper Talk: A Hybrid Scheduling Approach for Scalable Heterogeneous Hadoop Systems
* Paper Talk: Software-as-a-Service: The iPlant Foundation API
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General Chairs
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Program Committee Chair
Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
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Generous sponsorship has been confirmed from University of Chicago (Computation Institute)
and Illinois Institute of Technology (College of Science and Letters, and Graduate School)!
See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/index.html#Sponsors">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/index.html#Sponsors</a> for more details. </pre>
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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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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Cel: 1-847-722-0876
Office: 1-312-567-5704
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iraicu@cs.iit.edu">iraicu@cs.iit.edu</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/">http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/</a>
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