Workshop Program
The MTAGS08 will be on Monday, November 17th, 2008, in room 11AB, from 8:30AM to 12PM. Please check in early to get your SC08 badge from the registration booths, as lines might be long. See below for the 7 talks that are part of the workshop, their abstracts, papers, and slides. Also, see the invited paper "Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers".
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8:30AM |
Introduction |
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8:35AM |
Keynote Talk: Many-task applications in use today with a look toward the future |
Alan Gara, IBM Fellow and Blue Gene chief architect, IBM Research |
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Session 1 (Reagan Moore, Session Chair) |
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9:05AM |
Design and Evaluation of a Collective I/O Model for Loosely-coupled Petascale Programming |
Zhao Zhang, Univ. of Chicago Allan Espinosa, Univ. of Chicago Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Lab. Ioan Raicu, Univ. of Chicago Ian Foster, Univ. of Chicago & Argonne National Lab Michael Wilde, Argonne National Lab. |
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9:30AM |
Exploring Data Parallelism and Locality in Wide Area Networks |
Yunhong Gu, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Robert Grossman, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago |
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9:55AM |
Break |
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Session 2 (Kamil Iskra, Session Chair) |
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10:05AM |
System Support for Many Task Computing |
Eric Van Hensbergen, IBM Research Ron Minnich, Sandia National Labs |
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10:30AM |
A lightweight execution framework for massive independent tasks |
Li Hui, Peking University, China Yu Huashan, Peking University, China Li Xiaoming, Peking University, China |
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10:55AM |
Break |
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Session 3 (Yong Zhao, Session Chair) |
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11:10AM |
ViGs: A Grid Simulation and Monitoring Tool for Grid Workflows |
A.T. Thor, Univ. of Texas at Arlington G.V. Zaruba, Univ. of Texas at Arlington D. Levine, Univ. of Texas at Arlington K. De, Univ. of Texas at Arlington T.J. Wenaus, Univ. of Texas at Arlington |
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11:35AM |
Embarrassingly Parallel Jobs Are Not Embarrassingly Easy to Schedule on the Grid |
Enis Afgan, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Purushotham Bangalore, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham |
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12:00PM |
Closing Statements |
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