Virtualization - Jul 2015 - CFP: 8th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2015 -- co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2015

Call for Papers

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The 8th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers
(MTAGS) 2015
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS15/
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November 15th, 2015
Austin, Texas, USA

Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC15)

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8th 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 for novelty, scientific merit, and scope for the
workshop. The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2015
Conference in Austin Texas on November 15th, 2015. For more information, please
see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS15/.

For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS14, MTAGS13, 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 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 are also currently assembling a new special issue in the IEEE Transaction on
Cloud Computing on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud, see 
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/index.html for more information. 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
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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


Paper Submission and Publication
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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/MTAGS2015/ before the deadline. Papers will
be peer-reviewed for novelty, scientific merit, and scope for the workshop.
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/MTAGS15/.


Important Dates
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*	Abstracts due: September 4th, 2015
*	Full paper due: September 11th, 2015
*	Acceptance notification: October 2nd, 2015
*	Early Registration deadline: October 15th, 2015
*	Final papers due: November 6th, 2015
*	Workshop date: November 15th, 2015


Committee Members
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Workshop Chairs
*	Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory
*	Justin Wozniak, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
*	Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
*	Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of 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, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
*	Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

Technical Committee
*	Hasan Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA
*	Tim Armstrong, University of Chicago, USA
*	Roger Barga, Microsoft, USA
*	Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA
*	Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia
*	Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA
*	Evangelinos Constantinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*	Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA
*	Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago, 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 & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA
*	Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*	Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA
*	Jik-Soo Kim, Kristi, Korea
*	Scott A. Klasky, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA
*	Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
*	Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Chris Moretti, Princeton University, USA
*	David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
*	Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
*	Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
*	Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
*	Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
*	Iman Sadooghi, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*	Edward Walker, Whitworth University, USA
*	Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Matthew Woitaszek, Walmart Labs, USA
*	Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
*	Zhifeng Yun, University of Houston, USA
*	Zhao Zhang, University of California at Berkeley, USA
*	Ziming Zheng, University of Chicago, USA


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================================================================Ioan Raicu,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
================================================================Data-Intensive
Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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