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5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
Co-located with Supercomputing/SC 2012Salt Lake City -- November 12th, 2012
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 (2011) and
director of the Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory (DataSys)
at IIT. He has 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 March 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. Over the past
decade, he has co-authored over 50 peer reviewed articles, book
chapters, books, theses, and dissertations, which received over 2100
citations. His H-index is 19 , G-Index is 45, and E-Index is 37. 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 has also founded and chaired several
workshops, such as ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and
Supercomputers (MTAGS), the IEEE Int. Workshop on Data-Intensive
Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud/DataCloud-SC), and the ACM Workshop
on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud). He is on the editorial
board of the Springer Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and
Applications (JoCCASA), as well as a guest editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), the Scientific
Programming Journal (SPJ), and the Journal of Grid Computing (JoGC). He
has been leadership roles in several high profile conferences, such as
HPDC, CCGrid, Grid, eScience, and ICAC. He is a member of the IEEE and
ACM.
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.
Program Committee Chair
- Justin Wozniak (wozniak@mcs.anl.gov), Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Dr.
Justin Wozniak's research is currently focused on novel languages
for high-performance scientific computing and systems development. Much
of his recent work is related to the composition of complex scientific
workflows. He has also been involved in storage system research and
design. He is interested in concurrency, fault tolerance and recovery,
simulation of computer systems, and control theoretic applications in
computing systems. Infrastructures targeted by his projects include
clusters, clouds, grids, and supercomputers such as the IBM Blue Gene/P
and the Cray XE6.
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, 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
- 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, 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