Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2011 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS11/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 14th, 2011 Seattle, Washington, USA Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC11) ======================================================================================= 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/. 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 * Scheduling * Job execution frameworks * Local resource manager extensions * Performance evaluation of resource managers in use on large scale systems * Dynamic resource provisioning * Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on HPC systems * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructure * Storage architectures and implementations * Distributed file systems * Parallel file systems * Distributed meta-data management * Content distribution systems for large data * Data caching frameworks and techniques * Data management within and across data centers * Data-aware scheduling * Data-intensive computing applications * Eventual-consistency storage usage and management * Programming models and tools * Map-reduce and its generalizations * Many-task computing middleware and applications * Parallel programming frameworks * Ensemble MPI techniques and frameworks * Service-oriented science applications * Large-Scale Workflow Systems * Workflow system performance and scalability analysis * Scalability of workflow systems * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware * Programming Paradigms and Models * Large-Scale Many-Task Applications * High-throughput computing (HTC) applications * Data-intensive applications * Quasi-supercomputing applications, deployments, and experiences * Performance Evaluation * Performance evaluation * Real systems * Simulations * Reliability of large systems Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. The final 5/10 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2011/ before the deadline of September 26th, 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 13th, 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@datasys.cs.iit.edu. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission: September 26, 2011 * Acceptance notification: October 13, 2011 * Final papers due: October 28, 2011 Committee Members --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory * Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory * Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Steering Committee * David Abramson, Monash University, Australia * Jack Dongara, University of Tennessee, USA * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Technical 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 * Michael Isard, Microsoft Research, USA * 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 * Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA * Judy Qiu, 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, Whitworth University, USA * Mike Wilde, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Matthew Woitaszek, The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA * Ken Yocum, University of California at San Diego, USA * Zhifeng Yun, Louisiana State University, USA