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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
Panel: Many-Task Computing meets Exascales
Grand Hyatt Theater
Monday, November 14th, 2011
11AM - 12PM
Panel Abstract
Exascale computers will enable the unraveling of significant scientific mysteries. There are many domains (e.g. weather modeling, national security, drug discovery) that will achieve revolutionary advancements due to exascale computing. Predictions are that supercomputers will reach exascales by 2019, and will be composed of millions of compute nodes aggregating billions of threads of execution. The exascales computing era will bring new fundamental challenges in how we build, manage, and program computing systems. Our decades-old approaches (e.g. parallel file systems, MPI) will have to be radically changed to support the coming wave of extreme-scale general purpose parallel computing.
Many-Task Computing (MTC), which aims to bridge the gap between high-performance computing (HPC) and high-throughput computing (HTC), could have some interesting properties making it a viable paradigm to address many of the HPC shortcomings at extreme scales (e.g. reliability, programmability) for a large class of applications. The DOE ASCR program have confirmed that “fulfilling the science potential of emerging multi-core computing systems and other novel 'extreme-scale' computing architectures, which will require significant modifications to today’s tools and techniques”. This panel will attempt to address how many-task computing can address “advanced hardware and software architectures for exascale computing systems, scientific data management and analysis at scale, and scalable and fault tolerant operating and runtime”.
Panelists
Corporate Vice President of Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Research
Leader of the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), Microsoft Research
University Distinguished Professor of EECS, University of Tennessee
Distinguished Research Staff of CSM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Director, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee
Director, Center for Information Technology Research, University of Tennessee
Director of Science, TeraGrid GIG
Area Co-director for Applications, Open Grid Forum
Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute, University of Chicago & Argonne National Lab.
Professor of CS, Monash University, Australia
Director, Monash eScience and Grid Engineering Lab, Monash University, Australia
ARC Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
Moderator
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
Guest Research Faculty, Math and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Panelists Biographies
Dan
Reed is Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Technology Strategy and
Policy and Extreme Computing. Previously, he was the Chancellor’s
Eminent Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as the Director of the
Renaissance Computing Institute
(RENCI) and the Chancellor’s Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation
for UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Reed has served as a member of the U.S.
President’s Council of Advisors
on Science and Technology (PCAST) and as a member of the President’s
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). As chair of PITAC’s
computational science subcommittee, he was lead author of the report “Computational
Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness.” On PCAST, he
co-chaired the Networking and Information Technology subcommittee (with
George Scalise of the Semiconductor Industry Association) and
co-authored a report on the National Coordination Office’s Networking
and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program
called “Leadership
Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in Competitive World.”
In June 2009, he completed two terms of service as chair of the board of
directors of the Computing Research
Association, which represents the research interests of Ph.D.
granting university departments, industrial research groups and national
laboratories. He was previously Head of the
Department of Computer Science at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where the held
the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professorship. He has also
been Director of the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC, where he also led
National Computational Science Alliance, a fifty institution partnership
devoted to creating the next generation of computational science tools.
He was also one of the principal investigators and chief architect for
the NSF TeraGrid. He received his
B.S. from Missouri University of Science
and Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science in 1983
from Purdue University. He is a
Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE and the AAAS.
Jack
Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago
State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science
from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D.
in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He
worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior
scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished
Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the
University of Tennessee and holds the title of Distinguished Research
Staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow at Manchester University, and
an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice
University. He is the director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at
the University of Tennessee. He is also the director of the Center for
Information Technology Research at the University of Tennessee which
coordinates and facilitates IT research efforts at the University. He
specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel
computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming
methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the
development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical
software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the
following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK,
the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS,
and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports
and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He was
awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the
application of high performance computers using innovative approaches;
in 2008 he was the recipient of the first IEEE Medal of Excellence in
Scalable Computing; in 2010 he was the first recipient of the SIAM
Special Interest Group on Supercomputing's award for Career Achievement;
and in 2011 he was the recipient of the IEEE IPDPS 2011 Charles Babbage
Award. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of
the National Academy of Engineering.
Daniel
S. Katz is the TeraGrid GIG Director of Science, Open Grid Forum Area
Co-director for Applications, and a Senior Fellow in the Computation
Institute (CI) at the University of Chicago and Argonne National
Laboratory. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the Center for
Computation and Technology (CCT), Louisiana State University (LSU),
where he was previously Director for Cyberinfrastructure Development
from 2006 to 2009, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU. He was at JPL from 1996 to
2006, in a variety of roles, including: Principal Member of the
Information Systems and Computer Science Staff, Supervisor of the
Parallel Applications Technologies group, Area Program Manager of High
End Computing in the Space Mission Information Technology Office,
Applications Project Element Manager for the Remote Exploration and
Experimentation (REE) Project, and Team Leader for MOD Tool (a tool for
the integrated design of microwave and millimeter-wave instruments).
From 1993 to 1996 he was employed by Cray Research (and later by Silicon
Graphics) as a Computational Scientist on-site at JPL and Caltech,
specializing in parallel implementation of computational electromagnetic
algorithms. His research interests include: numerical methods,
algorithms, and programming applied to supercomputing, parallel
computing, cluster computing, distributed computing, and embedded
computing; and fault-tolerant computing. He received his B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois, in 1988, 1990, and 1994, respectively. His work is
documented in numerous book chapters, journal and conference
publications, and NASA Tech Briefs. He is a senior member of the IEEE,
chairs the steering committee for the IEEE Cluster conference series,
designed and maintained (until 2001) the original website for the IEEE
Antenna and Propagation Society, and serves on the IEEE Technical
Committee on Parallel Processing's Executive Committee and the steering
committee for IEEE Grid conference series.
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.
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.