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5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
Co-located with Supercomputing/SC 2012Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -- November 12th, 2012
News
- Best Paper Award Winner: "Resource Management for Dynamic MapReduce Clusters in Multicluster Systems", by Bogdan Ghit, Nezih Yigitbasi, Dick Epema.
- To attend, please register.
- Win a Kindle Fire HD tablet!
- Generous sponsorship has been confirmed from University of Chicago (Computation Institute) and Illinois nstitute of Technology (College of Science and Letters, and Graduate School)!
- Program is online (PDF)
- 1 Keynote and 3 Invited Talks
- Keynote -- Adaptive Runtime Systems meet needs of many task computing
- Petascale Challenge Award -- Data Management for Parallel Scripting
- Biggest Impact Award -- IaaS Cloud Benchmarking: Approaches, Challenges, and Experience (PDF)
- Cloud Challenge Award -- Portable Data Mining on Azure and HPC Platforms
- 7 papers
accepted for publication and presentation, from a total of 14
submissions, plus 1 invited paper
- Alexandru Iosup, Radu Prodan, and Dick Epema. "IaaS Cloud Benchmarking: Approaches, Challenges, and Experience", Invited Paper, 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
- Dan Gunter, Shreyas Cholia, Anubhav Jain, Michael Kocher, Kristin Persson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Shyue Ping Ong, Gerbrand Ceder, "Community Accessible Datastore of High-Throughput Calculations: Experiences from the Materials Project", 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
- Bogdan Ghit, Nezih Yigitbasi, Dick Epema. "Resource Management for Dynamic MapReduce Clusters in Multicluster Systems", 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012 -- Best Paper Award Winner
- Ting Chen, Kenjiro Taura. "A Comparative Study of Data Processing Approaches for Text Processing Workflows", 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
- Vibhor Aggarwal, Shubhashis Sengupta, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Aravindan Santharam, "A Scalable Master-Worker Architecture for PaaS Clouds", 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
- Chen He, Derek Weitzel, David Swanson, Ying Lu. "HOG:Distributed Hadoop MapReduce on the Grid", 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
- Aysan Rasooli, Douglas Down. "A Hybrid Scheduling Approach for Scalable Heterogeneous Hadoop Systems", 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
- Rion Dooley, Matthew Vaughn, Dan Stanzione, Steve Terry, Edwin Skidmore. "Software-as-a-Service: The iPlant Foundation API", 5th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
- Paper submission deadline extension to September 24th, 2012
- Paper submission is online and open at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2012/
- Awards at MTAGS12:
- Biggest Impact Award: Alexandru Iosup, Simon Ostermann, Nezih Yigitbasi, Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer, Dick Epema. "Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for MTC-Based Scientific Computing", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Special Issue on Many-Task Computing, to appear in print January 2011
- Cloud Challenge Award: Judy Qiu, Jaliya Ekanayake, Scott Beason, Thilina Gunarathne, Geoffrey Fox, Roger Barga, Dennis Gannon. "Cloud technologies for bioinformatics applications", ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS09), 2009
- Petascale Challenge Award: Zhao Zhang, Allan Espinosa, Kamil Iskra, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Michael Wilde. “Design and Evaluation of a Collective I/O Model for Loosely-coupled Petascale Programming”, IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS08), 2008
- Confirmed keynote: Dr. Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Confirmed invited talk: Zhao Zhang, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, University of Chicago
- Confirmed invited talk: Dr. Alexandru Iosup, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Confirmed invited talk: Dr. Judy Qiu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Informatics, Indiana University
- CFP: MTAGS12 Workshop at SC12
- CFP: DataCloud2012 Workshop at SC12
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):
- 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
- How MTC Addresses Challenges of Petascale and Exascale Computing
- Concurency & Programmability
- I/O & Memory
- Energy
- Resilience
- Heterogeneity
Important Dates
- Paper submission: September 17th, 2012 September 24th, 2012 (11:59PM PST)
- Acceptance notification: October 12th, 2012
- Final papers due: November 7th, 2012
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)
- 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, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
- Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
Publicity Chair (mtags12-publicity@datasys.cs.iit.edu)
- Zhao Zhang, University of Chicago, USA
Program Committee Chair (mtags12-pc-chair@datasys.cs.iit.edu)
- Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Program Committee
- Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
- Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA
- Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA
- Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA
- Evangelinos Constantinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- John Dennis, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
- Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA
- Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research, USA
- Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
- Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Hui Jin, Oracle Corporation, USA
- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California, USA
- Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA
- Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill, USA
- Jose Moreira, IBM Research, USA
- Chris Moretti, Princeton University, USA
- David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University, Intel Labs, USA
- Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
- Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
- Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- Kui Ren, SUNY Buffalo, USA
- Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Karen Schuchardt, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M, USA
- Douglas Thain University of Notre Dame, USA
- Edward Walker, Whitworth University, USA
- Matthew Woitaszek, Occipital, Inc., USA
- Ken Yocum, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Zhifeng Yun, Louisiana State University, USA
- Zhao Zhang, University of Chicago, USA
- Ziming Zheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, 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, 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.
