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4th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2011
Co-located with Supercomputing/SC 2011Seattle Washington -- November 14th, 2011
Grand Hyatt Theater -- 10AM - 5:30PM
News
- 5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012, to be held at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2012
- Workshop attracts over 150 attendees, a record number for the workshop!
- Best Paper Award Winner:
- "Parallel High-resolution Climate Data Analysis using Swift", Matthew Woitaszek, John Dennis, Taleena Sines
- Workshop program (HTML, PDF) has been posted, including papers.
-
Attendee Prize Giveaway -- Win an
Apple iPad 2 Tablet
- You must register to be eligible to win.
- Panel:
Many-Task Computing meets Exascales
- Panelists: Dan Reed, Jack Dongarra, Dan S. Katz, and David Abramson
- Moderator: Ioan Raicu
- Generous sponsorship has been confirmed from University of Chicago (Computation Institute) and Illinois Institute of Technology (College of Science and Letters, and Graduate School)!
- Keynote presentation by David Abramson, Professor, Monash University
- Tentative program has been posted
- 6 papers have been accepted out of
14 submissions, plus an invited paper!
- "Parallel High-resolution Climate Data Analysis using Swift", Matthew Woitaszek, John Dennis, Taleena Sines
- "Riding the Elephant: Managing Ensembles with Hadoop", Elif Dede, Madhusudan Govindaraju, Dan Gunter, Lavanya Ramakrishnan
- "A Dependency-Driven Formulation of Parareal: Parallel-in-Time Solution of PDEs as a Many-Task Application", Wael Elwasif, Samantha Foley, David Bernholdt, Lee Berry, D. Samaddar, David Newman, Raul Sanchez
- "Design and Implementation of ‘Many Parallel Task’ Hybrid Subsurface Model", Khushbu Agarwal, Jared Chase, Karen Schuchardt, Timothy Scheibe, Bruce Palmer, Todd Elsethagen
- "Toward Scalable I/O Architecture for Exascale Systems", Yong Chen
- "High Performance Matrix Inversion Based on LU Factorization for Multicore Architectures", Jack Dongarra, Mathieu Faverge, Hatem Ltaief, Piotr Luszczek
- "MATE-EC2: A Middleware for Processing Data with AWS", Invited Paper, Tekin Bicer, David Chiu, Gagan Agrawal
- Paper submission deadline has been extended to September 26th, 2011
- Keynote Speaker: Professor David Abramson from Monash University, Australia
- Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds in the Springer Journal of Grid Computing
- The Second International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11) 2011, co-located at Supercomputing/SC 2011, 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. 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/. For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS10, MTAGS09, and MTAGS08. We also ran a Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 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", and was published in SC08; the second paper is titled “Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers”, which was published in MTAGS08.
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
Important Dates
- Paper submission: September 9, 2011 September 26, 2011
- Acceptance notification: October 13, 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. 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.
Organization
General Chairs (mtags11-chairs@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 Dongarra, 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
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
- 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
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Zhifeng Yun, Louisiana State University, USA
Sponsors
Generous sponsorship has been confirmed from the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and the College of Science and Letters as well as the Graduate College at the Illinois Institute of Technology. These funds will be used to enhance the workshop project. Check back soon for more details.
