From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Mon Jul 11 09:24:28 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:24:28 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] CFP: The 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2011) Message-ID: <4E1B079C.3040801@cs.iit.edu> Call for Papers The 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2011) Lyon, France Sep 21 - Sep 23, 2011 http://grid2011.mnm-team.org/ Co-located with the EGI Technical Forum and OGF Sponsored by: - The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (pending) - Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (pending) Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed applications. The Grid conference series is an annual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier venue for presenting foremost research results in the area and as a forum for introducing and exploring new concepts. The conference will feature invited talks, workshops, and refereed paper presentations. Grid 2011 welcomes paper and poster submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in grid computing. Previous events in this series have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. This event will be co-located with the EGI Technical Forum. SCOPE Grid 2011 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications - Architectures and Fabrics - Authentication, Authorization, Auditing and Accounting - Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids - Cloud computing - Cloud, Cluster and Grid Integration - Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations - Critical surveys or reflections on the past decade on grid and distributed computing - Dynamic, Distributed, Data-Intensive Access, Management and Processing - Energy Efficiency and Grid - Grid Economy and Business Models - Infrastructure and Practise of Distributed Computing - Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance - Middleware and Toolkits - Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools - Networking - Performance Measurement and Modelling - Problem Solving Environments - Programming Models, Tools and Environments - Production Cyberinfrastructure - QoS and SLA Negotiation - Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments - Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications - Semantic Grid - Standardization efforts in Grid - Virtualization and grid computing TECHNICAL PAPERS Grid 2011 invites authors to submit original papers (not published or under review elsewhere). Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length (including diagrams and references) and be submitted as a PDF file by using the submission system: URL Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. A separate conference proceedings will be published and will also be a part of the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library. For author instructions visit www.grid2011.org. IMPORTANT DATES 15 July 2011 Technical Paper Submission Due 17 August 2011 Paper Acceptance Notifications 24 August 2011 Full and Revised papers due 15 August 2011 Poster submissions Due 25 August 2011 Poster Acceptance Notifications CONFERENCE ORGANISATION General Chair: Nils gentschen Felde, MNM, Munich Program Chair: Shantenu Jha, Rutgers, USA and Edinburgh, UK Local Chair: Frederic Suter, IN2P3, Lyon Workshop Chair& Poster Chair: Gilles Fedak, INRIA, Lyon Proceedings and Publications Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft, Australia Program Vice Chairs: Clouds and Virtualisation: Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, US Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: Andrew Grimshaw, Univ. of Virginia, US e-Research and Applications: Daniel S. Katz, Univ. of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, US Tools& Services, Resource Management& Runtime Environments: Ramin Yahyapour, Dortmund Distributed Data-Intensive Science and Systems: Erwin Laure, KTH, Sweeden Publicity Chairs: Suraj Pandey, Univ of Melbourne, Australia Yoshiyuki Watase, KEK, Japan Cameron Kiddle, Calgary, Canada Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory, USA Adam Barker, St. Andrew's, UK CONFERENCE ORGANISATION General Chair: Nils gentschen Felde, MNM, Munich Program Chair: Shantenu Jha, Rutgers, USA and Edinburgh, UK Local Chair: Frederic Suter, IN2P3, Lyon Workshop Chair& Poster Chair: Gilles Fedak, INRIA, Lyon Proceedings and Publications Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft, Australia Program Vice Chairs: Clouds and Virtualisation: Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, US Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: Andrew Grimshaw, Univ. of Virginia, US e-Research and Applications: Daniel S. Katz, Univ. of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, US Tools& Services, Resource Management& Runtime Environments: Ramin Yahyapour, Dortmund Distributed Data-Intensive Science and Systems: Erwin Laure, KTH, Sweeden Publicity Chairs: Suraj Pandey, Univ of Melbourne, Australia Yoshiyuki Watase, KEK, Japan Cameron Kiddle, Calgary, Canada Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory, USA Adam Barker, St. Andrew's, UK -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu at cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ ================================================================= ================================================================= From jonmon at utexas.edu Mon Jul 11 13:35:34 2011 From: jonmon at utexas.edu (Jonathan Monette) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:35:34 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] X509 variables Message-ID: <258473DB-2ED8-421C-BBFC-6393F1467B27@utexas.edu> Hello, Does anyone know if Swift honors the X509_USER_PROXY, X509_USER_CERT, and X509_USER_KEY? Or is Swift hardcoded to look in the default locations for these files? From skenny at uchicago.edu Mon Jul 11 14:00:10 2011 From: skenny at uchicago.edu (Sarah Kenny) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:10 -0700 Subject: [Swift-user] X509 variables In-Reply-To: <258473DB-2ED8-421C-BBFC-6393F1467B27@utexas.edu> References: <258473DB-2ED8-421C-BBFC-6393F1467B27@utexas.edu> Message-ID: i have successfully used these settings in the past when i wanted to have certs/proxies in unusual locations for swift runs. however, that may be due to globus's honoring them & swift not caring...don't know if that helps :P ~sk On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Monette wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone know if Swift honors the X509_USER_PROXY, X509_USER_CERT, and > X509_USER_KEY? Or is Swift hardcoded to look in the default locations for > these files? > _______________________________________________ > Swift-user mailing list > Swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu > https://lists.ci.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swift-user > -- Sarah Kenny Programmer University of Chicago, Computation Institute University of California Irvine, Dept. of Neurology 773-818-8300 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonmon at utexas.edu Mon Jul 11 14:18:54 2011 From: jonmon at utexas.edu (Jonathan Monette) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:18:54 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] X509 variables In-Reply-To: References: <258473DB-2ED8-421C-BBFC-6393F1467B27@utexas.edu> Message-ID: <879E2BA1-7C3B-4C9C-80B2-45943B4A6492@utexas.edu> Yea. They work. Stupid me just misspelled the variables. haha. On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Sarah Kenny wrote: > i have successfully used these settings in the past when i wanted to have certs/proxies in unusual locations for swift runs. however, that may be due to globus's honoring them & swift not caring...don't know if that helps :P > > ~sk > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Monette wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone know if Swift honors the X509_USER_PROXY, X509_USER_CERT, and X509_USER_KEY? Or is Swift hardcoded to look in the default locations for these files? > _______________________________________________ > Swift-user mailing list > Swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu > https://lists.ci.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swift-user > > > > -- > Sarah Kenny > Programmer > University of Chicago, Computation Institute > University of California Irvine, Dept. of Neurology > 773-818-8300 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ketancmaheshwari at gmail.com Mon Jul 11 22:31:24 2011 From: ketancmaheshwari at gmail.com (Ketan Maheshwari) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:31:24 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] trunk FileNotFoundException Message-ID: Hello, Using Swift trunk, I am running the SCEC workflow from Communicado using ranger, localhost and OSG resources. One particular app 'mkoffset' which is destined to run on localhost is faulting with FileNotFoundException. The log does give information on its mapping and when it gets 'cleared'. The config, tc, sites and log files for the run could be found here: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan/files/bundle.tgz (log is 90M, upload size exceeded!) The error stack that I am getting on stdout is: Progress: time: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:16:38 -0500 Selecting site:390 Stage in:16 Active:9 Checking status:1 Finished successfully:36 Failed but can retry:3 org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.FileNotFoundException: File not found: /var/tmp/postproc-20110711-2209-bx2qm0nb/jobs/e/mkoffset-ea7xcuck/stderr.txt at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.local.FileResourceImpl.getFile(FileResourceImpl.java:225) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.local.FileResourceImpl.putFile(FileResourceImpl.java:268) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.AbstractFileResource.putFile(AbstractFileResource.java:158) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.fileTransfer.DelegatedFileTransferHandler.doDestination(DelegatedFileTransferHandler.java:314) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.fileTransfer.CachingDelegatedFileTransferHandler.doDestination(CachingDelegatedFileTransferHandler.java:46) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.fileTransfer.DelegatedFileTransferHandler.run(DelegatedFileTransferHandler.java:487) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.FileNotFoundException: File not found: /var/tmp/postproc-20110711-2209-bx2qm0nb/jobs/e/mkoffset-ea7xcuck/LGU/offset-128 at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.local.FileResourceImpl.getFile(FileResourceImpl.java:225) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.local.FileResourceImpl.putFile(FileResourceImpl.java:268) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.file.AbstractFileResource.putFile(AbstractFileResource.java:158) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.fileTransfer.DelegatedFileTransferHandler.doDestination(DelegatedFileTransferHandler.java:314) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.fileTransfer.CachingDelegatedFileTransferHandler.doDestination(CachingDelegatedFileTransferHandler.java:46) at org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.fileTransfer.DelegatedFileTransferHandler.run(DelegatedFileTransferHandler.java:487) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Progress: time: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:16:39 -0500 Selecting site:389 Stage in:16 Active:9 Checking status:1 Finished successfully:38 Failed but can retry:4 Execution failed: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.griphyn.vdl.mapping.AbstractDataNode.getValue(AbstractDataNode.java:333) at org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.SetFieldValue.log(SetFieldValue.java:71) at org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.SetFieldValue.function(SetFieldValue.java:38) at org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.VDLFunction.post(VDLFunction.java:62) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.AbstractSequentialWithArguments.completed(AbstractSequentialWithArguments.java:194) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowNode.complete(FlowNode.java:214) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowContainer.post(FlowContainer.java:58) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.functions.Argument.post(Argument.java:48) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.AbstractSequentialWithArguments.completed(AbstractSequentialWithArguments.java:194) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowNode.complete(FlowNode.java:214) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowContainer.post(FlowContainer.java:58) at org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.VDLFunction.post(VDLFunction.java:66) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.AbstractSequentialWithArguments.completed(AbstractSequentialWithArguments.java:194) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowNode.complete(FlowNode.java:214) at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowContainer.post(FlowContainer.java:58) Any clues? Thanks, -- Ketan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Tue Jul 12 15:52:49 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:52:49 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] CFP: The 21st Int. ACM Symp. on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'12) 2012 Message-ID: <4E1CB421.4070701@cs.iit.edu> **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** **** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS **** The 21st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'12) Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands June 18-22, 2012 http://www.hpdc.org/2012 The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference on the design, the implementation, the evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. HPDC'12 will take place in Delft, the Netherlands, a historical, picturesque city that is less than one hour away from Amsterdam-Schiphol airport. The conference will be held on June 20-22 (Wednesday to Friday), with affiliated workshops taking place on June 18-19 (Monday and Tuesday). **** SUBMISSION DEADLINES **** Abstracts: 16 January 2012 Papers: 23 January 2012 (No extensions!) **** HPDC'12 GENERAL CHAIR **** Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands **** HPDC'12 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS **** Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Matei Ripeanu, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada **** HPDC'12 WORKSHOPS CHAIR **** Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands **** SCOPE AND TOPICS **** Submissions are welcomed on all forms of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, including but not limited to clusters, clouds, grids, utility computing, data-intensive computing, and massively multicore systems. Submissions that explore solutions to estimate and reduce the energy footprint of such systems are particularly encouraged. All papers will be evaluated for their originality, potential impact, correctness, quality of presentation, appropriate presentation of related work, and relevance to the conference, with a strong preference for rigorous results obtained in operational parallel and distributed systems. The topics of interest of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following, in the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing: - Systems, networks, and architectures for high-end computing - Massively multicore systems - Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage - Programming languages and environments - I/O, storage systems, and data management - Resource management, energy and cost minimizations - Performance modeling and analysis - Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability - Data-intensive computing - Applications of parallel and distributed computing **** PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via the conference web site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of papers will be accepted as posters. Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details. **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Workshop Proposals Due: 3 October 2011 Abstracts Due: 16 January 2012 Papers Due: 23 January 2012 (No extensions!) Reviews Released to Authors: 8 March 2012 Author Rebuttals Due: 12 March 2012 Author Notifications: 19 March 2012 Final Papers Due: 16 April 2012 Conference Dates: 18-22 June 2012 **** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS **** Workshops affiliated with HPDC will be held on June 18-19 (Monday and Tuesday). For more information on the workshops and for the complete Call for Workshop Proposals, see the workshops page on the conference website. -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu at cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ ================================================================= ================================================================= From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Wed Jul 13 01:22:29 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:22:29 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] CFP: 12th IEEE/ACM Int. Symp. on Cluster, Grid and Cloud, Computing (CCGrid) 2012 Message-ID: <4E1D39A5.4090001@cs.iit.edu> 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing (CCGrid 2012) Ottawa, Canada May 13-16, 2012 http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012 CALL FOR PAPERS Rapid advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters and research demos, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations. In 2012, CCGrid will come to Canada for the first time and will be held in Ottawa, the capital city. CCGrid 2012 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications. * Architecture: System architectures, Design and deployment. * Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure: Self managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement; * Performance Modeling and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds. * Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing: Programming models for cluster, clouds and grid computing; fault tolerant infrastructure and algorithms; systems software to enable efficient computing. * Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing: Software and application techniques to utilize multicore architectures and accelerators/heterogeneous computing systems. * Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on clusters, clouds and grid computing platforms. * Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures; Software tools and techniques for clouds. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ccgrid2012 CHAIRS General Chair * Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada Program Committee Co-Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Program Committee Vice-chairs * Daniel S. Katz (Applications and Experiences) * Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Architecture) * Manish Parashar (Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and Cyberinfrastructure) * Ahmad Afsahi (Performance Modeling and Analysis) * Xian-He Sun (Performance Measurement and Evaluation) * William Gropp (Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant computing) * David Bader (Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing) * Thomas Fahringer (Scheduling and Resource Management) * Ignacio Martin Llorente and Madhusudhan Govindaraju (Cloud Computing) Honorary Chair * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA IMPORTANT DATES Papers Due: 25 November 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 30 January 2012 Camera Ready Papers Due: 27 February 2012 Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society (TCSE) & ACM SIGARCH (approval pending) -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu at cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ ================================================================= ================================================================= From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Sun Jul 17 04:21:48 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:21:48 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] deadline extension 08/16/11 -- SI on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds in JGC Message-ID: <4E22A9AC.2060504@cs.iit.edu> Hi all, Due to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for the Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds in the Springer Journal of Grid Computing to August 16th, 2011. Please see below for the CFP announcement. Regards, Ioan Raicu and Tevfik Kosar Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds Springer Journal of Grid Computing http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/JGC-DataCloud-2012/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers *** Springer Journal of Grid Computing Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/JGC-DataCloud-2012/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applications and experiments in all areas of science are becoming increasingly complex and more demanding in terms of their computational and data requirements. Some applications generate data volumes reaching hundreds of terabytes and even petabytes. As scientific applications become more data intensive, the management of data resources and dataflow between the storage and compute resources is becoming the main bottleneck. Analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating these large data sets has become a major challenge and data intensive computing is now considered as the "fourth paradigm" in scientific discovery after empirical, theoretical, and computational scientific approaches. The Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum, within the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing, for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts in running data-intensive computing workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructures. This special issue will focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet the new data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or compute-intensive clouds. We believe this venue will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and services for future clouds supporting data intensive computing. TOPICS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data-intensive cloud computing applications, characteristics, challenges - Case studies of data intensive computing in the clouds - Performance evaluation of data clouds, data grids, and data centers - Energy-efficient data cloud design and management - Data placement, scheduling, and interoperability in the clouds - Accountability, QoS, and SLAs - Data privacy and protection in a public cloud environment - Distributed file systems for clouds - Data streaming and parallelization - New programming models for data-intensive cloud computing - Scalability issues in clouds - Social computing and massively social gaming - 3D Internet and implications - Future research challenges in data-intensive cloud computing Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Papers Due: August 16, 2011 * First Round Decisions: October 15, 2011 * Major Revisions if needed: November 15, 2011 * Second Round Decisions: December 15, 2011 * Minor Revisions if needed: January 15, 2012 * Final Decision: February 1, 2012 * Publication Date: June 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Submitted papers may not exceed 20 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references; note that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20 pages, depending on a variety of factors; for more information for preparing the submitted papers, please see http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723, under "Instructions for Authors". The papers (PDF format) must be submitted online at http://grid.edmgr.com/ before the extended deadline of August 16th, 2011 at 11:59PM PST. For any questions on the submission process, please email the guest editors at jgc-datacloud-2012 at datasys.cs.iit.edu. Guest Editors --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue Guest Editors * Tevfik Kosar (tkosar at buffalo.edu), University at Buffalo * Ioan Raicu (iraicu at cs.iit.edu), Illinois Institute of Technology& Argonne National Laboratory Editors-in-Chief * Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Ian Foster, University of Chicago& Argonne National Laboratory -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu at cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ ================================================================= ================================================================= From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Mon Jul 18 09:39:36 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:39:36 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] Fwd: [hpc-announce] CFP: First Workshop on Data-Flow Execution Models for Extreme Scale Computing (DFM 2011) In-Reply-To: <4E1F0D20.60008@cs.ucy.ac.cy> References: <4E1F0D20.60008@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Message-ID: <4E2445A8.1050309@cs.iit.edu> Hi all, This seems like a relevant and interesting workshop! 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Name: Attached Message Part URL: From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Sun Jul 24 09:20:47 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:20:47 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] CFP: 4th ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2011 -- co-located with SC11 Message-ID: <4E2C2A3F.50306@cs.iit.edu> 4th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2011 *Co-located with * *Supercomputing/SC 2011* * Seattle Washington -- November 14th, 2011* Overview 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. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/ . For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS10 , MTAGS09 , and MTAGS08 . We also ran a Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) which has appeared in June 2011; the proceedings can be found online at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/2011/06/ttd201106toc.htm. We, the workshop organizers, also published two papers that are highly relevant to this workshop. One paper is titled "Toward Loosely Coupled Programming on Petascale Systems ", and was published in SC08 ; the second paper is titled "Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers ", which was published in MTAGS08 . Topics 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 o Scheduling o Job execution frameworks o Local resource manager extensions o Performance evaluation of resource managers in use on large scale systems o Dynamic resource provisioning o Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs o Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on HPC systems o Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructure * Storage architectures and implementations o Distributed file systems o Parallel file systems o Distributed meta-data management o Content distribution systems for large data o Data caching frameworks and techniques o Data management within and across data centers o Data-aware scheduling o Data-intensive computing applications o Eventual-consistency storage usage and management * Programming models and tools o Map-reduce and its generalizations o Many-task computing middleware and applications o Parallel programming frameworks o Ensemble MPI techniques and frameworks o Service-oriented science applications * Large-Scale Workflow Systems o Workflow system performance and scalability analysis o Scalability of workflow systems o Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware o Programming Paradigms and Models * Large-Scale Many-Task Applications o High-throughput computing (HTC) applications o Data-intensive applications o Quasi-supercomputing applications, deployments, and experiences o Performance Evaluation * Performance evaluation o Real systems o Simulations o Reliability of large systems Important Dates * Abstract submission: September 2, 2011 * Paper submission: September 9, 2011 * Acceptance notification: October 7, 2011 * Final papers due: October 28, 2011 Paper Submission 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 (http://www.acm.org/publications/instructions_for_proceedings_volumes); document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. 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/MTAGS2011/ 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 Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 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 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/ , or send email to mtags11-chairs at datasys.cs.iit.edu . Organization *General Chairs (mtags11-chairs at datasys.cs.iit.edu )* * 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 *Steering Committee* * David Abramson, Monash University, Australia * Jack Dongara, University of Tennessee, USA * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA *Program Committee* * Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA * Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA * Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Hui Jin, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA * Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA * Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill, USA * Jose Moreira, IBM Research, USA * Judy Qui, 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 * Matthew Woitaszek, The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu at cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ ================================================================= ================================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Sun Jul 24 23:37:36 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:37:36 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] CFP: The Second ACM International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11) 2011 -- co-located with SC11 Message-ID: <4E2CF310.5050403@cs.iit.edu> The Second International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11) 2011 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud-SC11/ *Co-located with * *Supercomputing/SC 2011* * Seattle Washington -- November 14th, 2011* Overview Applications and experiments in all areas of science are becoming increasingly complex and more demanding in terms of their computational and data requirements. Some applications generate data volumes reaching hundreds of terabytes and even petabytes. As scientific applications become more data intensive, the management of data resources and dataflow between the storage and compute resources is becoming the main bottleneck. Analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating these large data sets has become a major challenge and data intensive computing is now considered as the "fourth paradigm" in scientific discovery after theoretical, experimental, and computational science. The second international workshop on Data-intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing new research, development, and deployment efforts in running data-intensive computing workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructures. The DataCloud-SC11 workshop will focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet the new data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or compute-intensive clouds. We believe the workshop will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and services for future clouds supporting data intensive computing. For more information about the workshop, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud-SC11/. To see the 1st workshop's program agenda, and accepted papers and presentations, please see http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/tkosar/datacloud2011/. We are also running a Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds in the Springer Journal of Grid Computing with a paper submission deadline of August 16th 2011, which will appear in print in June 2012. Topics * Data-intensive cloud computing applications, characteristics, challenges * Case studies of data intensive computing in the clouds * Performance evaluation of data clouds, data grids, and data centers * Energy-efficient data cloud design and management * Data placement, scheduling, and interoperability in the clouds * Accountability, QoS, and SLAs * Data privacy and protection in a public cloud environment * Distributed file systems for clouds * Data streaming and parallelization * New programming models for data-intensive cloud computing * Scalability issues in clouds * Social computing and massively social gaming * 3D Internet and implications * Future research challenges in data-intensive cloud computing Important Dates * Abstract submission: September 2, 2011 * Paper submission: September 9, 2011 * Acceptance notification: October 7, 2011 * Final papers due: October 28, 2011 Paper Submission 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 (http://www.acm.org/publications/instructions_for_proceedings_volumes); document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. 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/DataCloud_SC11/ 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. We are currently running a Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds in the Springer Journal of Grid Computing . Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud-SC11/ or send email to datacloud-sc11-chairs at datasys.cs.iit.edu . Organization *General Chairs (datacloud-sc11-chairs at datasys.cs.iit.edu )* * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, USA * Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA *Steering Committee* * Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * James Hamilton, Amazon, USA * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Dan Reed, Microsoft Research, USA * Rich Wolski, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA * Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA *Program Committee* * David Abramson, Monash University, Australia * Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA * Rong Chang, IBM, USA * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA * Terence Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA * Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA * Jaliya Ekanayake, Microsoft Research, USA * Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia * Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Hui Jin, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Dan S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA * Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA * Erwin Laure, CERN, Switzerland * Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA * Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA * Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Florian Schintke, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany * Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA * Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK * Bernard Traversat, Oracle Corporation, USA -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu at cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ ================================================================= ================================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iraicu at cs.iit.edu Wed Jul 27 16:55:33 2011 From: iraicu at cs.iit.edu (Ioan Raicu) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:55:33 -0500 Subject: [Swift-user] Fwd: Journal of Grid Computing has got impact factor 1.556 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E308955.9000302@cs.iit.edu> FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Journal of Grid Computing has got impact factor 1.556 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:11:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Kacsuk Peter To: iraicu at cs.iit.edu Dear All, As the previous editors of JOGC there is a good news for you: The 2010 Impact Factors have just been released and JOGC is included first time. It has an impact factor of 1.556 and is ranked 43/126 journals in Computer Science/Information Systems and 29/97 in Computer Science/Theory and Methods. So not bad at all for a first ranking. It is worth to have a look at the following web page where Springer shows the journals of High Impact Factors - Increased Impact Factors - First Impact Factors http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+journals?SGWID=0-40100-12-836504-0 Here you can see that JOGC has got the highest IF among the journals of First Impact Factors and ranked higher than many Springer journals that had got IF earlier. Many thanks for your contribution to achieve this outstanding performance. May I ask you to distribute this information to grid and cloud communities/projects that you have got contact with and invite them to submit more articles in the future? I think that this impact factor makes JOGC attractive enough for many researchers to publish papers in it. Regards, Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: