[Swift-user] CFP: 4th ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2011 -- co-located with SC11

[Ioan Raicu]

    4th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers
    (MTAGS) 2011

*Co-located with * *Supercomputing/SC 2011* 
<http://sc11.supercomputing.org/> *
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/ 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/index.html>. For more 
information on past workshops, please see MTAGS10 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS10/index.html>, MTAGS09 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS09/index.html>, and MTAGS08 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS08/index.html>. We also ran a 
Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on 
Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TPDS_MTC/index.html> 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 
<http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/research/publications/2008_SC08_Falkon_BGP.pdf>", 
and was published in SC08 <http://sc08.supercomp.org/>; the second paper 
is titled "Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers 
<http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/research/publications/2008_MTAGS08_MTC.pdf>", 
which was published in MTAGS08 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS08/index.html>.


        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) 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TPDS_MTC/index.html> 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/ 
<http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/index.html>, or send email to 
mtags11-chairs at datasys.cs.iit.edu 
<mailto:mtags11-chairs at datasys.cs.iit.edu>.


        Organization
        <http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/organization.html>

*General Chairs (mtags11-chairs at datasys.cs.iit.edu 
<mailto: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

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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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