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The Second International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11) 2011
Co-located with Supercomputing/SC 2011Seattle Washington -- November 14th, 2011
Grand Hyatt Leonesa I/II -- 9AM - 5PM
Organization
General Chairs
- Tevfik Kosar (tkosar@buffalo.edu), University at Buffalo
- Ioan Raicu (iraicu@cs.iit.edu), Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory
- Roger Barga (barga@microsoft.com), Microsoft Research
Dr.
Tevfik Kosar is an Associate Professor of
Computer Science & Engineering at
University at Buffalo (SUNY). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer
Science from University of
Wisconsin-Madison under the guidance of Prof. Miron Livny. Dr.
Kosar's main research interests lie in the cross-section of petascale
distributed systems, eScience, Grids, Clouds, and collaborative
computing with a focus on large-scale data-intensive distributed
applications. He is the primary designer and developer of the
Stork distributed data
scheduling system which has been adopted by many national and
international institutions, and the lead investigator of the state-wide
PetaShare distributed storage
network in Louisiana. He has published more than fifty academic papers
in leading journals and conferences. Some of the awards received by Dr.
Kosar include NSF CAREER Award (for his work on “data-aware distributed
computing”), LSU Rainmaker Award, LSU Flagship Faculty Award, Baton
Rouge Business Report’s Top 40 Under 40 Award, 1012 Corridor’s Young
Scientist Award, College of Basic Science’s Research Award, and CCT
Faculty of the Year Award. Dr. Kosar’s work on data intensive computing
has been funded by NSF, DOE, ONR, DoEd, SURA, and Louisiana Board of
Regents.
Dr.
Ioan Raicu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer
Science (CS) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), as well as a
guest research faculty in the Math and Computer Science Division (MCS)
at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). He is also the founder and
director of the Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory (DataSys)
at IIT. He received the prestigious NSF CAREER award (2011 - 2015) for
his innovative work on distributed file systems for exascale computing.
He was a NSF/CRA Computation Innovation Fellow at Northwestern
University in 2009 - 2010, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science
from University of Chicago under the guidance of Dr. Ian Foster in 2009.
He is a 3-year award winner of the GSRP Fellowship from NASA Ames
Research Center. His research work and interests are in the general area
of distributed systems. His work focuses on a relatively new paradigm of
Many-Task Computing (MTC), which aims to bridge the gap between two
predominant paradigms from distributed systems, High-Throughput
Computing (HTC) and High-Performance Computing (HPC). His work has
focused on defining and exploring both the theory and practical aspects
of realizing MTC across a wide range of large-scale distributed systems.
He is particularly interested in resource management in large scale
distributed systems with a focus on many-task computing, data intensive
computing, cloud computing, grid computing, and many-core computing. His
work has been funded by the NASA Ames Research Center, DOE Office of
Advanced Scientific Computing Research, the NSF/CRA CIFellows program,
and the NSF CAREER program. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.
Roger
Barga is an Architect and group lead in the Cloud Computing Futures
(CCF) team at Microsoft Research. CCF is part of the eXtreme Computing
Group (XCG), a new organization in Microsoft Research established to
push the boundaries of computing. Barga’s team is responsible for
engaging researchers in academia and government labs to leverage cloud
computing infrastructure for their research. As part of this initiative
they are developing core services for research as a set of coherent and
composable solutions, and they provide select reference data sets in the
cloud to enable communities of researchers. Barga’s team offers
tutorials on cloud computing, identifies best practices for deploying
research applications and data collections in the cloud, and serve as
thought leaders on the application of cloud computing for research.
Barga is frequent public speaker and Microsoft spokesperson on the
topic. Prior to joining XCG Barga worked a Principal Architect for
External Research (MSR), where he lead the Advanced Research Services
and Tools (ARTS) team. The ARTS team was responsible for developing
innovative tools and services using Microsoft products and technology
accelerate research, such as the Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench,
The Research Information Centre VRE, and Dryad/DryadLINQ on HPCS. Their
team also provided strategic and tactical hands-on technological
leadership to projects across External Research’s international
engagements.
Keynote
- Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Dr.
Geoffrey Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge
University and is now distinguished professor of Informatics and
Computing, and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of the
Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate
Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing. He previously held
positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University.
He has supervised the PhD of 62 students and published over 600 papers
in physics and computer science. He currently works in applying computer
science to Bioinformatics, Defense, Earthquake and Ice-sheet Science,
Particle Physics and Chemical Informatics. He is principal investigator
of FutureGrid – a new facility to enable development of new approaches
to computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the
capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions.
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
- Rong Chang, IBM, USA
Program Committee
- David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
- Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, 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
- Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
- Dan S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA
- Steven Ko, SUNY Buffalo, USA
- Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA
- Erwin Laure, CERN, Switzerland
- Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 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
- Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China