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IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014

14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing

May 26-29, 2014 -- Chicago, IL, USA

Organization

Honorary General Chair

General Chairs

  • Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

  • Ian T. Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Program Committee Chairs

  • Kirk W. Cameron, Virginia Tech, USA

  • Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK

Program Committee Area Chairs

  • APPLICATIONS

    • Esmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  • ARCHITECTURE & ACCELERATORS

    • Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  • AUTONOMIC COMPUTING AND CYBERINFRASTUCTURE

    • Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK

    • Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, USA

  • CLOUD COMPUTING

    • Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech, USA

    • Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar; North Carolina State University, USA

  • MODELING AND EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY

    • David Lowenthal, University of Arizona, USA

  • PROGRAMMING MODELS, SYSTEMS, AND FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTING

    • Kasidit Chanchio, Thammasat University, Thailand

    • Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

  • SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

    • Matthew Grove, Rackspace, USA

    • Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK

  • STORAGE AND I/O SYSTEMS

    • Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Workshops Co-Chairs

  • Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

  • Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada

Tutorials Co-Chairs

  • Kate Keahey, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA

  • Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Doctoral Symposium Chair

  • Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA

Poster and Research Demo Chairs

  • Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA

  • Hui Jin, Oracle, USA

SCALE Challenge Coordinator

  • Doug Thain, Notre Dame, USA

Student Award Chair

  • Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA

Publicity Chairs

  • Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil       

  • Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China

  • Darren J. Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

  • Toni Cortes  UPC/BSC, Spain

Cyber Co-Chairs

  • Rong Ge, Marquette University, USA

  • Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Proceedings Chair

  •  Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Local Organizing Committee

  • Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

  • Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA

Finance Chairs

  • Dawn DeBartolo, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Steering Committee

  • Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair)

  • Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA (Co-Chair)

  • Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands

  • Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

  • Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, France

  • Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California/ISI, USA

  • Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & ORNL, USA

  • Dick Epema, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

  • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria

  • Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA

  • Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA, Germany

  • Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

  • Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France

  • Geng Lin, Dell Inc., USA

  • Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA

  • Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada

  • Satoshi Matsuoaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

  • Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

  • Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  • Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil

  • Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

  • Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, USA

  • Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Technical Program Committee

 

Applications:

  • Hasan Metin Aktulga, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Bill Barth, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Costas Bekas, IBM Research - Zurich
  • Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston
  • Yifeng Chen, Peking University
  • Olivier Coulaud, INRIA
  • Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria
  • Frederic Desprez, INRIA
  • Daniel Martin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Kengo Nakajima, The University of Tokyo
  • Hai Ah Nam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara
  • Judy Qiu, Indiana University
  • Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University
  • Gerhard Wellein, Erlangen Regional Computing Center
  • Rio Yokota, KAUST
  • Rui Zhang, IBM Research - Almaden
  • Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ARCHITECTURE & ACCELERATORS

  • Michela Becchi, University of Missouri

  • Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Srihari Cadambi, NEC Labs America Inc.

  • Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University

  • Cong Du, Arista Networks

  • Natalie Enright Jerger, University of Toronto

  • Michael Ferdman, Stony Brook University

  • Dong Li, Oak Rdige National Lab

  • Sonia Lopez, Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University

  • Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Lab

  • Ahmad Samih, Intel Corporation

  • Vinod Tipparaju, AMD

  • Didem Unat, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science – Bangalore

  • Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  • Yili Zheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING AND CYBERINFRASTUCTURE

  • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino

  • Francoise Baude, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

  • Alexander Bolotov, University of Westminster

  • Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam

  • Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota

  • Yong Chen, Texas Tech University

  • Yuan Chen, HP Labs

  • Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa

  • Xiaoning Ding, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Jose Fortes, University of Florida

  • Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS

  • Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster

  • Sergei Gorlatch, University of Muenster

  • Palden Lama, University of Texas at San Antonio

  • Zhiqiang Lin, University of Texas at Dallas

  • Cristian Lumezanu, NEC Laboratories

  • Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University

  • Christine Morin, INRIA

  • Jia Rao, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

  • Ian Taylor, Cardiff University and Louisiana State University

  • Thomas Weigold, IBM Research

  • Timothy Wood, George Washington University

  • Weikuan Yu, Auburn University

  • Ming Zhao, Florida International University

  • Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado

CLOUD COMPUTING

  • Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University

  • Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo

  • Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech

  • Claris Castillo, Renaissance Computing Institute

  • Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University

  • Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology

  • Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida

  • Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University

  • Chuntao Hong, Microsoft Research

  • Howie Huang, George Washington University

  • Dejun Jiang, Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Peter Kilpatrick, Queen's University Belfast

  • Jong Kim, HPC Lab

  • Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Eren Kursun, JPMorgan Chase

  • Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  • Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute; North Carolina State University

  • Kostas Magoutis, ICS-FORTH

  • Gaurav Makkar, NetApp

  • M. Mustafa Rafique, IBM Research

  • Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Kai Sachs, SAP AG

  • Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM

  • Radu Sion, Stony Brook University

  • Yang Song, IBM

  • Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba

  • Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame

  • Devesh Tiwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University

  • Guanying Wang, Google

  • Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota

  • Gianluigi Zanetti, CRS4

  • Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Rui Zhang, IBM Research

  • Zhe Zhang, IBM Research

MODELING AND EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY

  • Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

  • Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico

  • Frank Bellosa, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • Laura Carrington, San Diego Supercomputing Center

  • Peter Dinda, Northwestern University

  • Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Rong Ge, Marquette University

  • Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  • John Hartman, University of Arizona

  • Lizy John, University of Texas at Austin

  • Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University

  • Darren Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Lab

  • James Laros, Sandia National Labs

  • David Lowenthal, University of Arizona

  • Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS

  • Wolfgang E. Nagel, ZIH, TU Dresden

  • Vignesh Ravi, AMD

  • Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Sameer Shende, University of Oregon

  • Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University

  • Hans Vandierendonck, Queen's University Belfast

  • Ana Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam

  • Yonghong Yan, University of Houston

  • Xin Yuan, Flroida State University

PROGRAMMING MODELS, SYSTEMS, AND FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTING

  • Vassil Alexandrov, BSC

  • Christos Antonopoulos, University of Thessaly

  • Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory

  • David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Filip Blagojevic, Hitachi Research

  • George Bosilca, University of Tennessee

  • Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico

  • Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Franck Cappello, INRIA and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Kasidit Chanchio, Thammasat University

  • Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside

  • Andrew Chien, University of Chicago

  • Nathan Debardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories

  • Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Cecile Germain, LRI

  • Michael Gerndt, Technische Universität München

  • William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit

  • Bettina Krammer, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)

  • Dieter Kranzlmüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen

  • Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab

  • Hatem Ltaief, KAUST

  • Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Celso Mendes, University of Illinois

  • Kathryn Mohror, LLNL

  • Frank Mueller, NCSU

  • Wolfgang E. Nagel, ZIH, TU Dresden

  • Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research (Ireland)

  • Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University

  • Prapaporn Rattanatamrong, Thammasat University

  • Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin

  • Rolf Riesen, IBM Research

  • Scott Schneider, IBM Research

  • Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Stephen Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Shuaiwen Leon Song, Pacific Northwest National Lab

  • Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory

  • Michela Taufer, University of Delaware

  • Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart University

  • Felix Wolf, German Research School for Simulation Sciences

SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

  • Carl Albing, Cray Inc. and University of Reading

  • Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit

  • Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon - LIP

  • Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas

  • Richard Boakes, University of Portsmouth

  • Ivona Brandic, TU Wien

  • Julita Corbalan, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
    Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute

  • Erik Elmroth, Umeå University

  • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck

  • Matthew Grove, Rackspace

  • Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology

  • Emmanuel Jeannot, Inria

  • Gideon Juve, USC Information Sciences Institute

  • Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  • Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin

  • Charles Lively, DeVry University

  • Maciej Malawski, AGH

  • Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University

  • Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame

  • Thomas Naughton, ORNL

  • George Pallis, University of Cyprus

  • Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester

  • Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University

  • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria

  • Matthew E. Tolentino, Intel Corporation

  • Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology

  • Kurt Vanmechelen, University of Antwerp

  • Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

  • Ramin Yahyapour, University of Göttingen

  • Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI

STORAGE AND I/O SYSTEMS

  • Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

  • Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  • Yafei Dai, Peking University

  • Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  • Chris Gniady, University of Arizona

  • Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  • Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska Lincoln

  • Xiao Qin, Auburn University

  • Josef Spillner

  • Fang Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  • Chunxiao Xing, Tsinghua University

  • Zhenquan Xu, Wuhan University

  • Lu Xu, Institute of Computing Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Yinliang Yue

  • Zhao Zhang, Iowa State University

  • Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine

  • Zhichun Zhu, University of Illinois at Chicago

Biographies of General Chairs:

Xian-He SunDr. Xian-He Sun is a professor of Computer Science and the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He received his BS in Mathematics in 1982 from Beijing Normal University, P.R. China, and completed his MS in Mathematics, MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively, all from Michigan State University. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Ames National Laboratory, a staff scientist at the ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, an ASEE fellow at the US Navy Research Laboratories, and was an associate professor and the founding director of the Scalable Computing Software laboratory in the Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University before he joined the Computer Science Department, IIT in August 1999. Currently he is a professor at IIT, a guest faculty in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory, a visiting scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the director of the Scalable Computing Software laboratory at IIT. His research interests include parallel and distributed processing, system software, performance evaluation, and high end computing. Dr. Sun has published close to two hundred research articles in the field of computer science and communication, has three US patents and one China patent, and his research is supported by NSF, and other US government agencies. His research in mobility of legacy code is one of the first nine projects supported by the National Science Foundation under the Middleware Initiative program. His PDD and PPT algorithms have been included in IBM's Parallel Engineering and Scientific Software Library (PESSL) and other commercial and research software packages as a community standard. His memory-bounded (the so-called Sun-Ni's law) and memory access delay performance model are introduced in many modern textbooks as a must known in performance evaluation of scalable computing systems. Chicago Sun-Times called his work in cross-network service as turning "POTS (plain Old Telephone service) into PANS (Pretty Amazing New Stuff), moving (landline) phone into the internet loop" (May 12, 2003). His current research includes the development of the Data Access Server system for high performance machines, and the development of the Fault awareness ENabled Computing Environment (FENCE) for high end computing. His group received the ACM/IEEE HPC award and the NSF V-Tech HEC Challenge award in 2008, 2007 and 2006 for its contribution in the Data Access Server project and the FENCE project, respectively.
Dr. Sun is an editor of six international professional journals, including the flagship journals in parallel and distributed processing: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He has served and is serving as the chairman or a member of program committee for numerous international conferences and workshops, and served and is serving on several boards and committees of government agencies and private foundations for research activities.

Ian FosterDr. Ian T. Foster is Director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He is also an Argonne Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He is also involved with both the Open Grid Forum and with the Globus Alliance as an open source strategist. In 2006, he was appointed director of the Computation Institute, a joint project between the University of Chicago, and Argonne. An earlier project, Strand, received the British Computer Society Award for technical innovation. His research resulted in the development of techniques, tools and algorithms for high-performance distributed computing and parallel computing. As a result he is denoted as "the father of the Grid". Foster led research and development of software for the I-WAY wide-area distributed computing experiment, which connected supercomputers, databases and other high-end resources at 17 sites across North America in 1995. His own labs, the Distributed Systems Laboratory is the nexus of the multi-institute Globus Project, a research and development effort that encourages collaborative computing by providing advances necessary for engineering, business and other fields. Furthermore the Computation Institute addresses many of the most challenging computational and communications problems facing Grid implementations today. In 2004, he founded Univa Corporation, which was merged with United Devices in 2007 and operate under the name Univa UD. Foster's honors include the Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society, the Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance computing (2001), as well as others. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. Dr. Foster also serves as PI or Co-PI on projects connected to the DOE global change program, the National Computational Science Alliance, the NASA Information Power Grid project, the NSF Grid Physics Network, GRIDS Center, and International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory projects, and other DOE and NSF programs. His research is supported by DOE, NSF, NASA, Microsoft, and IBM.

The Host Institutions

Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology

IIT has a long history of innovation and education that enabled our faculties and graduates to develop breakthrough technologies. A few names of IIT faculties and alumni in the field of computer sciences are: Marvin Camras (inventor of magnetic recording), Herbert Simon (funder of CMU CS program), Martin Cooper (father of cell phone), Victor Tsao (CS80, Funder of Linksys), Abdur Chowdhure (CS01, Chief Scientist, Twitter), as well as Jack Dongarra (CS73, who you know). The computer science department offers Ph.D. MS. and BS in computer science and currently has more than four hundred graduate students and more than two hundred undergraduate students. The Computer Science Department has close ties with industries, government agencies, and local national research laboratories, such as Argonne and Fermi national laboratories. Its advisory board member includes the CTO of CIA, CIO of Boeing, CTO of Northern Trust, CTO of Orbitz, etc. The department has a strong group in HPC, Cloud, and distributed computing.

Dr. Xian-He Sun have hosted several relevant workshops over the past years, including the IIT-IBM Cloud Computing in Academia workshop in 2010, the DISC 2012 workshop (co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing), and the APART 2006 workshop series (co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing).

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago

Founded in 2000 as a joint institute between Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the University of Chicago (UC), the CI’s core mission is to advance science through innovative computational approaches. Currently led by Ian Foster, the Institute continues to build on its outstanding reputation as both an intellectual nexus and resource center for those building and applying advanced computational platforms for the sciences, biomedicine, arts, and humanities.

The Institute involves some 200 fellows and staff and is home to projects such as the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy, two DOE Exascale Co-design Centers, the Globus middleware project, the TeraGrid’s Grid Integration Group, the University of Chicago’s Initiative for Biomedical Informatics, and the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL)—among many others. Other major eScience projects with strong CI and/or ChicagoLand presence include Open Science Grid, cancer Biology Informatics Grid, the Biomedical Informatics Research Network, and the SEED and MG-RAST computational biology services. The Institute also operates substantial computing resources, including Beagle, a 150 Teraflop/sec Cray XE6 for biomedical research, and PADS, a petabye-scale online storage server.

Dr. Ian Foster has hosted several relevant conferences and workshops over the past years, including GlobusWORLD 2003-2011 Conference, the CCA 2008/2009/2011 Symposium, the eScience 2012 Conference, the ACM ScienceCloud 2010/2011 workshop (co-located with ACM HPDC), and the IEEE/ACM MTAGS 2008/2009/2010/2011/2012 workshop (co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing).