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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
Organization
General Chairs
- Ioan Raicu (iraicu@cs.iit.edu), Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory
- Ian Foster (foster@anl.gov), University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
- Yong Zhao (yongzh04@gmail.com), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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.
Dr. Ian
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.
Dr.
Yong Zhao is a professor at the School of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
Before joining the university, he worked at Microsoft on Business
Intelligence projects that leveraged Cloud storage and computing
infrastructure for Web analytics and behavior targeting. He obtained his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Chicago under Dr. Ian
Foster's supervision, and was the key designer of the GriPhyN Virtual
Data System (VDS) and the Swift parallel scripting system. VDS is a data
and workflow management system for data-intensive science
collaborations. VDS played a fundamental role in various Data Grid
projects such as iVDGL (International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory),
PPDG (Partical Physics Data Grid), OSG (Open Science Grid) etc. Swift is
a programming tool for fast, scalable and reliable loosely-coupled
parallel computation. It comprises a simple scripting language called
SwiftScript to represent complex scientific workflows, and a scalable
runtime system to schedule hundreds of thousands of jobs onto
distributed and parallel computing resources. Yong's research areas are
in cloud computing, many-task computing, and data intensive computing.
He is especially interested in providing resource management, workflow
management, high level language and scheduling support for large scale
computations in Cloud and Grid environments.
Keynote
- David Abramson, Monash University
Professor
David Abramson has been involved in computer architecture and high
performance computing research since 1979. Previous to joining Monash
University in 1997, he has held appointments at
Griffith University,
CSIRO, and
RMIT. At CSIRO he was the program
leader of the Division of Information Technology High Performance
Computing Program, and was also an adjunct Associate Professor at RMIT
in Melbourne. He served as a program manager and chief investigator in
the Co-operative Research Centre for Intelligent Decisions Systems and
the Co-operative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems.
Abramson is currently an ARC
Professorial Fellow; Professor of Computer Science in the
Faculty of Information
Technology at Monash University,
Australia, and science director of the
Monash e-Research Centre. He is a fellow of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) and the
Academy of Science and Technological Engineering (ATSE),
and a member of the IEEE. Abramson has served on committees for many
conferences and workshops, and has published over
200 papers and
technical documents. He has given
seminars
and received
awards around Australia and internationally and has received over $8
million in research funding. He also has a keen interest in R&D
commercialization and consults for
Axceleon Inc, who produce an industry strength version of
Nimrod, and
Guardsoft, a company focused on
commercialising the
Guard relative debugger. Abramson’s current interests are in high
performance computer systems design and software engineering tools for
programming parallel, distributed supercomputers and
stained
glass windows.
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
Program Committee
- Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
- Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA
- Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA
- 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