[Swift-user] CFP: The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2010, co-located with Supercomputing 2010 -- November 15th, 2010

Wed Aug 4 03:15:03 CDT 2010

Call for Papers

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The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2010
http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/MTAGS10/  
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November 15th, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for 
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC10) 

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The 3rd 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 IEEE digital library (pending approval). The workshop 
will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2010 Conference in New Orleans 
Louisiana on November 15th, 2010. For more information, please see 
http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/MTAGS010/.

Topics
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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):
* Compute Resource Management 
  * Scheduling
  * Job execution frameworks
  * Local resource manager extensions
  * Performance evaluation of resource managers in use on large scale systems
  * Dynamic resource provisioning
  * Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs
  * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on HPC systems
  * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructure
* Storage architectures and implementations
  * Distributed file systems
  * Parallel file systems
  * Distributed meta-data management 
  * Content distribution systems for large data
  * Data caching frameworks and techniques
  * Data management within and across data centers
  * Data-aware scheduling
  * Data-intensive computing applications
  * Eventual-consistency storage usage and management
* Programming models and tools
  * Map-reduce and its generalizations
  * Many-task computing middleware and applications
  * Parallel programming frameworks
  * Ensemble MPI techniques and frameworks
  * Service-oriented science applications
* Large-Scale Workflow Systems
  * Workflow system performance and scalability analysis
  * Scalability of workflow systems
  * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware
  * Programming Paradigms and Models
* Large-Scale Many-Task Applications
  * High-throughput computing (HTC) applications
  * Data-intensive applications
  * Quasi-supercomputing applications, deployments, and experiences
  * Performance Evaluation
* Performance evaluation
  * Real systems
  * Simulations
  * Reliability of large systems

Paper Submission and Publication
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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 IEEE 
8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found at 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf and 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc. 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 https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2010/ before the deadline of August 
25th, 2010 at 11:59PM PST; the final 5/10 page papers in PDF format will be due on September 1st, 
2010 at 11:59PM PST. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the 
workshop proceedings as part of the IEEE digital library (pending approval). Notifications of the 
paper decisions will be sent out by October 1st, 2010. Selected excellent work may be eligible 
for additional post-conference publication as journal articles or book chapters; see this year's 
ongoing special issue in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) at 
http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/TPDS_MTC/.  Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the 
authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please visit 
http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/MTAGS10/. 

Important Dates
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*	Abstract Due:			August 25th, 2010
*	Papers Due:			September 1st, 2010
*	Notification of Acceptance:	October 1st, 2010
*	Camera Ready Papers Due:	November 1st, 2010
*	Workshop Date:			November 15th, 2010

Committee Members
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Workshop Chairs
*	Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology 
*	Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
*	Yong Zhao, Microsoft

Steering Committee
*	David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
*	Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA 
*	Jack Dongara, University of Tennessee, USA 
*	Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA 
*	Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
*	Arthur Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA 
*	Dan Reed, Microsoft Research, USA
*	Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA 
*	Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 
*	Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA 

Technical Committee
*	Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
*	Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA
*	Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
*	Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
*	Jeff Chase, Duke University, USA
*	Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA 
*	Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA
*	Evangelinos Constantinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*	Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
*	Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
*	Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
*	Michael Isard, Microsoft Research, USA
*	Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*	Daniel Katz, University of Chicago, USA
*	Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA
*	Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
*	Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill, USA
*	Jose Moreira, IBM Research, USA
*	Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
*	Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
*	Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
*	Alain Roy, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA 
*	Edward Walker, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA
*	Mike Wilde, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA 
*	Matthew Woitaszek, The University Coorporation for Atmospheric Research, USA
*	Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*	Ken Yocum, University of California San Diego, USA

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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Computer Science Department
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 W. 31st Street
Stuart Building, Room 237D
Chicago, IL 60616
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Cel:   1-847-722-0876
Email: iraicu at cs.iit.edu
Web:   http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/
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