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6th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2013
Co-located with Supercomputing/SC 2013Denver Colorado -- November 17th, 2013
News
- Please provide official feedback to SC13 on the MTAGS13 workshop
- For a chance to win a Google Nexus 7 tablet, please register here free of charge
- Panel on MTC meets Big Data -- Robert Grossman, Xian-He Sun, Judy Qiu, and Alexandru Iosup
- Workshop information from SC13 -- Room 502, Sunday November 17th, 9AM-5:30PM
- Best paper nominations:
- Application Skeletons: Encapsulating MTC Application Task Computation and I/O
- Exploring the Use of Elastic Resource Federations for Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Workflows
- 2 Invited Papers:
- On Many-Task Big Data Processing: From GPUs to Clouds, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Alexandru Iosup (University of Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology)
- Social Media Data Analysis with IndexedHBase and Iterative MapReduce, Xiaoming Gao, Judy Qiu (Indiana University)
- Accepted 5 papers of 12 full papers
submission (41% acceptance rate)
- Application Skeletons: Encapsulating MTC Application Task Computation and I/O, Zhao Zhang, Daniel Katz (University of Chicago)
- Exploring the Use of Elastic Resource Federations for Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Workflows, Javier Diaz-Montes, Yu Xie, Ivan Rodero, Jaroslaw Zola, Baskar, Ganapathysubramanian, Manish Parashar (Rutgers university, Iowa State University)
- FPGA-Based Prototype of Nexus++ Task Manager, Tamer Dallou, Ahmed Elhossini, Ben Juurlink (Technische Universität Berlin)
- HTCaaS: Leveraging Distributed Supercomputing Infrastructures for Large-Scale Scientific Computing, Jik-Soo Kim, Seungwoo Rho, Seoyoung Kim, Sangwan Kim, Seokkyoo Kim, Soonwook Hwang (KISTI)
- Enhancing ESnet’s Unicast-Only OSCARS with a Manycast Overlay Service, Jeremy Plante, Vinod Vokkarane (UMass Lowell)
- 2 week paper deadline extension -- papers due on 09/15/2013 (note that abstracts are due on 09/08/2013)
- Journal Special Issue in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing
- Keynote: Dr. Douglas Thain, Associate Professor at University of Notre Dame
- The 5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS 2012) attracts over 100 attendees. See workshop website for full program details.
Overview
The 6th workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, 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 ACM digital library (pending approval). The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2013 Conference in Denver Colorado on November 17th, 2013.
For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS13/. For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS12, 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, and to clearly articulate in your paper submissions how your papers are related to Many-Task Computing.
Topics
We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. The papers should be 6 pages, including all figures and references. We aim to cover topics related to Many-Task Computing on each of the three major distributed systems paradigms, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and Supercomputing. Topics of interest include:
- 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 1, 2013 September 15, 2013
- Acceptance notification: October 13, 2013
- Final papers due: November 10th, 2013
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 6 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The final 6 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2013/ before the deadline of September 15th, 2013 at 11:59PM PST. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (pending approval). Notifications of the paper decisions will be sent out by October 13th, 2013. Selected excellent work may be eligible for additional post-conference publication as journal articles; we will be running a journal special issue in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing (see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/ScienceCloud2014-TCC/). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS13/.
Organization
General Chairs
- 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
- Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
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
Program Committee
- Samer Al-Kiswany (University of British Columbia)
- Mihai Budiu (Microsoft Research)
- Kyle Chard (University of Chicago)
- Yong Chen (Texas Tech University)
- Evangelinos Constantinos (IBM Research)
- Catalin Dumitrescu (Fermi National Labs)
- Alexandru Iosup (Delft University of Technology - Netherlands)
- Florin Isaila (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid )
- Kamil Iskra (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Hui Jin (Oracle Corporation)
- Daniel Katz (University of Chicago)
- Zhiling Lan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- Mike Lang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Christopher Moretti (Princeton University)
- Bogdan Nicolae (IBM Research)
- David O'Hallaron (Carnegie Mellon University & Intel Laboratory)
- Marlon Pierce (Indiana University)
- Judy Qui (Indiana University)
- Wei Tang (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Edward Walker (Whitworth University)
- Matthew Woitaszek (Walmart Labs)
- Ken Yocum (University of California at San Diego)
- Zhifeng Yun (Louisiana State University)
- Zhao Zhang (University of Chicago)
- Ziming Zheng (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Sponsors
