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5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012

Co-located with Supercomputing/SC 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -- November 12th, 2012

News

Overview

The 5th 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 theoretical, simulations, and systems topics related to MTC, but we give special consideration to papers addressing petascale to exascale challenges. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the IEEE digital library (pending approval). The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2012 Conference in Salt Lake City Utah on November 12th, 2012.

For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/. For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS11, 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 a highly relevant paper that defines Many-Task Computing which was published in MTAGS08, titled “Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers”; we encourage potential authors to read this paper. 

Topics

We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. The papers can be either short (4 pages) position papers, or long (8 pages) research papers. Topics of interest include (in the context of Many-Task Computing):

Important Dates

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. We are also seeking position papers of no more than 4 pages in length. The final 4/8 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2012/ before the deadline. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the IEEE digital library (pending approval). Notifications of the paper decisions will be sent out by October 12th, 2012. 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/MTAGS12/, or send email to mtags12-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu.   

Organization

General Chairs (mtags12-chairs@datasys.cs.iit.edu)

Steering Committee

Publicity Chair (mtags12-publicity@datasys.cs.iit.edu)

Program Committee Chair (mtags12-pc-chair@datasys.cs.iit.edu)

Program Committee

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, fund gifts to the invited speakers, keynote, and best paper awards. It will also fund gifts for attendees. If you are a workshop attendee, click here for more information about the prize you can win.

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